September 2012 – Ladder Exchange, Good Practise Awards & Asbestos
September 2012 - Newsletter In this issue: The Ladder exchange - What is it, and how do you get involved? Good Practise Awards - What are they, and how do you nominate a project? Changes to the Asbestos Regs - Whay's different & why do you care? If you would like...
October 2012 – Winter, Bonfires & Ladders
Newsletter - October 2012 In this Issue: Ready for winter? - Common answers to winter-y questions Ladder Exchange - A quick reminder that it exists Fee For Intervention - What is is, and what it means to you Remember, Remember - What do you need to consider around...
November 2012 – Cooking for Christmas, Christmas Myths and Christmas Cards
November 2012 - Christmas Edition In this issue: What's Cookin' Good Lookin' - 10 top tips to aviod food poisening at Christmas Christmas Myths: BUSTED - What you really CAN do at Christmas Recycle your Christmas Cards - How, Where and Why.
Super Street Pastor Mary Pickles
You've got to admire Mary Pickles. The 87-year-old from Burnley has been regularly braving the biting east Lancashire winds to get out and help the town's late night revellers. Volunteering as a street pastor as part of a scheme organised by local churches, the...
Hidden Horse Meat Sold in UK
On Tuesday (15th Jan) the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) published findings of a study which examined the authenticity of a number of beef and salami products. They tested 27 'beef' burgers, 31 'beef' meal products (cottage pie, lasagna etc), and 19 salami...
Cold Temperatures – Snow Joke
With the spate of cold temperatures, and snow, set to heat the UK over the next few weeks we thought you might like to know what it is you need to do... Temperatures in the workplace are covered by the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. The...
Health and Safety Training – A Great Review
It's always nice to know you've done a good job. Especially as Helath and Safety Training is often seen as dull and boring. It's great to hear that someone has remembered their training, and enjoyed it so much they're willing, even keen, to see you again! We were...
Recycle Christmas Card
I know Chrstmas is over, and it's a bit sad to be thinking of the lights in the dim and distant past, but let's talk Chrsitmas cards. Each year the UK posts (not including those given out face to face) somewhere in the region of 750 million Christmas cards. All that...
Food Standards Agency – Food Hygiene Rating
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) launched their Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) back in October 2010. Hackney and Birmingham are two of the latest borough councils to come on board with the system, and nationally 93% of councils are running it. Some of us in the...
Improvements in food hygiene standards across Wales
In the two years since the introduction of the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) in Wales, hygiene standards in food businesses are improving. Recent data shows that currently more than 83% of businesses have a rating of 3, 4 or 5, compared with about 77% this time...
Maintenance firm fined after employee lost a leg when run over by a cherry picker
A building maintenance firm has been sentenced after one of its employees lost a leg when he was run over by a cherry picker at a nuclear site in Cumbria. Ken Brown was escorting the vehicle on foot when it struck him at the Windscale site in Seascale on 5 May 2011....