Electricity is an important part of our daily life and we use it all the time. However, if it is not handled correctly electricity can be dangerous enough to kill or severely injure. It also has the potential to cause serious damage to property. People work with electricity in a number of different industries and there are important… Read more »
A Slippery Slope to Injury – Preventing Slips and Trips at Work
Slipping and tripping accidents seem like something that might happen in a slapstick comedy, but when they happen in real life in the workplace they are not so funny and can actually be quite dangerous. A slip or a fall at work could result in a head injury, a broken bone, a bruised tailbone or a spinal injury…. Read more »
A Few Good Reasons to Take First Aid Training
Whether you are taking a first aid training course as a workplace health and safety requirement or simply for your own knowledge, the information that you learn is incredibly valuable. Here are a few reasons why you should take training: Once someone stops breathing or their heart stops pumping blood, they can only survive for approximately five to… Read more »
Health and Safety Breaches Resulted in the Death of a Girl in West London, UK
An article published on 23rd November 2013 on 3News – A girl at a water park in the west part of London during 2010 was fatally struck by a Kiwi driver of a ski boat. A catalogue of health and safety breaches resulted in the death of a girl – of which one of these breaches was… Read more »
Comparing IOSH Safety for Senior Executives & CITB Directors Role for Health & Safety Courses
If you are pursuing a career in the health and safety industry or you would like to know how become a health and safety officer, these two courses would both be very advantageous for you. They offer important health and safety instruction which can help to improve your skills and gain you the employment you… Read more »
Comparing the SSSTS & CCNSG Safety Passport
The CITB Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS) and the ECITB CCNSG Safety Passport are both high quality health and safety training courses. There are quite a few similarities in these courses, but there are a lot of differences as well. What are the differences between these two courses? Let’s take a closer look at… Read more »
Construction Site Safety First
For anybody taking on a supervisory role in the construction industry safety issues loom large – or at least they should. The latest figures for construction industry deaths (provisional figures for 2012-13) show that 39 workers lost their lives in the industry keeping it top of the table of riskiest industries in which to work…. Read more »
‘Completely Avoidable’ and Other Construction Terms
A quick browse of the (numerous) reports of deaths in the construction industry will nearly always contain that common phrase ‘completely avoidable’. According to one HSE Inspector, Graham Tompkins, this was the case in the death of fifty seven year old Nigel Sewell at a building site in Kneesworth in September 2011. The HSE spokesman… Read more »
The Supervisors Certificate for Construction Workers
With a range of major new infrastructure projects in the pipeline in the UK, having suitable construction qualifications is essential. For site supervisors the most suitable qualification is the SSSTS course, or the management equivalent. Those who have passed the training successfully will be issued with a certificate to prove it. The CITB certificate demonstrates… Read more »
What to Do After Your CITB SMSTS Course
If you have successfully completed the SMSTS course, what should you do afterward? Here are a few steps you can take once you have successfully achieved this qualification: Talk About What You Have Learned If there were other managers from your facility who took the SMSTS course with you, you can talk to them about… Read more »