Since November 2006, HSfB has been running regular free prize draws for our newsletter subscribers.

The first free draw, launched on 5 November 2006, was a ‘one off’ draw where all entrants were placed ‘in the hat’ and winners were drawn by an impartial member of a renowned health, safety and environmental establishment (NEBOSH). The total value of the prizes given away for that prize draw was a fantastic £7,260!

Since then, the concept grew and grew until we had several kind organisations and individuals donating prizes on a regular basis.   The prize draws have helped to change so many lives and I’m convinced these lives aren’t limited to just those winning prizes.   I believe the work any health and safety professional does helps to save lives every single day.

Check out these amazing statistics for our prize draws since 2006…

2006/2007

Number of potential winners – 17

Number of hours of study given away – 350 (not including the NVQ4)

Total value of all prizes – £7,260

2008/2009

Number of potential winners – 40

Number of hours of study given away – 860

Total value of all prizes – £9,900

2010

Number of potential winners – 28

Number of hours of study given away – 1,470

Total value of all prizes (approximately) – £12,200

2011

Number of potential winners – 47

Number of hours of study given away – 2,364

Number of prizes – 32 (19 x NEBOSH Certificate courses; 2 x IOSH Managing Safely courses; 8 x books; 1 x Amazon vouchers; 1 x Kindle 3G; 1 x NEBOSH Diploma)

Total value of all prizes (approximately) – £14,430

2012

Number of potential winners – 42

Number of hours of study given away – 4,000

Number of prizes – 35 (21 x NEBOSH Certificate courses; 4 x NEBOSH Diploma courses; 8 x books; 2 x Amazon vouchers)

Total value of all prizes (approximately) – £23,780

Total to date

Number of potential winners – 174

Number of hours of study given away – 9,044

Total value of all prizes – £67,570

We are extremely grateful to all of our sponsors who have contributed over the years, click HERE to see who they are and please take a few minutes to check out their services when you are there.

Having a Break

This year, in the run up to HSfB’s tenth anniversary, we will be making significant changes to the way we provide our services to you.   For that reason, the prize draws will be taking a break this year whilst we focus our efforts on those changes.

With technology changing regarding the way we use the internet and the increasing use of mobile phones, tablet pcs, social networking sites etc, we will be developing our website with all of this in mind.   The end result will be a feature rich site to allow you to find our downloads and revision tools much more easily as well as giving you more options to personalise and tailor the site to your own needs.

In carrying out these changes, we will be in a much stronger position to grow HSfB to allow us to continue providing free support for HS&E professionals / students and to continue to give more and more free stuff away!

In the meantime, dig in to our usual site, we aren’t going anywhere!

Health and Safety for Beginners – CLICK to go there now

John

Look forward to meeting some of you again this year.

Registration can be done from the following link:

See you there.

via Safety & Health Expo 2013 – Pre-Registration.

Brazil has declared three days of national mourning for 231 people killed in a nightclub fire in the southern city of Santa Maria.

HSfB and our members would like to send our sincerest of condolences to the victims, families and friends of this dreadful tragedy.  Our thoughts are with all involved and wish those injured a very speedy and full recovery.

Praise must be given to all those members of the public, police and fire personnel for their bravery and assistance in their rescue attempts, not forgetting the care given by all the hospital staff and Doctors involved.

via BBC News – Brazil mourns Santa Maria nightclub fire victims.

Overview

To deliver on-site audits in the supply chain of construction sector covering quality, health and safety and environment management systems. Applicants must have experience.

Qualifications
The following are essential:

• Working knowledge of Construction industry, including an understanding of how contracts and projects are discharged.
• A working knowledge of health and safety, environmental and quality management systems.
• Exposure to the delivery of audit programmes.
• A track record of liaising with clients or work experience of a customer service industry.
• Full driving Licence

The following are preferred, however not essential, as training may be given in the relevant areas:

• A Health and Safety professional qualification such as NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent.
• Lead Assessor via examination (preferably IRCA or equivalent).
• Environmental Awareness Certificate provided by a recognised provider such as IEMA, CIEH etc…
• Memberships of relevant professional institutions such as IEMA, IOSH, IIRSM and / or EI.

For further details and contact person, please read the post in the following link taken from our forums section - LINK

Full Time. Any 5 from 7:

Qualifications required:

NEBOSH or equivalent:

Up-to-date knowledge of Health and Safety legislation:

Proven Man-Manager:

Customer centric, dealing with contractors and suppliers:

Champion of induction training programme:

Full details can be found from the attachment in the post within our forums: LINK

Main Accountabilities to include but not be limited to:
The management of the sites 18001 accreditation
Producing accurate KPI`s with year on year reduction targets and action plan to achieve these.
Communicating UK/Business Unit policy and strategy
Ensuring compliance at site level through:Accident trend analysis, Annual HSE Review process, Formulation, in consultation with site colleagues, of improvement/action plans, Assisting the site with accident investigation, Provision of comprehensive reports to Management, Raise awareness of HSE issues/legislation by attendance on site HSE Forums, Assist in the delivery of HSE awareness training for the site (Accredited training schemes)

The ideal candidate will have:
NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Safety and Health
Experience in delivering training/briefings to colleagues
Should be able to prioritise their workload
Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the business needs of the site
Be a confident communicator
Full details and application details from following link:
http://hr.norbert-dentressangle.co.uk/Our-Opportunities (search ‘Job Type’ ‘Any’ and scroll down to the Health & Safety Advisor role.)

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has today announced that its cost recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention, is going ahead but will now not start in April 2012.

The scheme sets out to recover costs from those who break health and safety laws for the time and effort HSE spends on helping to put matters right – investigating and taking enforcement action.

Law-abiding businesses will be free from costs and will not pay a penny.

Gordon MacDonald, HSE’s programme director, said:

“The Government has agreed that it is right that those who break the law should pay their fair share of the costs to put things right – and not the public purse.

“The Government intends to proceed with the FFI scheme as recommended to ministers by HSE’s Board in December in response to the formal consultation that took place last Summer.

“Discussions are still taking place on the technical details of the scheme, which we expect to conclude soon.

“Therefore, FFI will not be introduced in April but at the next available opportunity, which is likely to be October 2012.”

HSE is taking advantage of the extra time to work further with businesses to improve their understanding of the scheme and how it will affect them.

Detailed guidance for employers and organisations will be available on HSE’s website ahead of implementation.

A practice run of the new processes and procedures underpinning the scheme is already underway in HSE and will continue until the scheme is implemented.

via New date for health and safety cost recovery scheme.

Reference:  0830770

Employer:  Michael Page International

Location:  North West

Salary:  £45000

Job Details

NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent)

Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner (or Graduate Member working towards)

H&S role exposure(ideally within chemical/pharmaceutical industry)

A global pharmaceutical company with a large state of the art facility and product lines in the North-West

Full Details from following link:

via H&S Advisor Job in North West – Engineering Vacancy – Telegraph Jobs.

HSE SRO Article: Leadership and worker involvement on the Olympic Park.