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Have you filled in an accident report for this?
Be interesting to see if your H&S Manager actually undertakes an investigation and what future actions he recommends.

Unfortunatley not everyone who works in a supermarket has access to a H&S 'body' such as ourselves eh. If the poor girl dosnt know her company is supposed to do a seperate RA for pregnant women BY LAW the company certainly arnt about to tell her. The present Mrs Geezer works for a famous superma...

The preperation of a risk assessment should be relativly straight forward, but..........................as the H&S Manager i will always take the lead in producing risk assessments however, my lack of technical and manufacturing knowledge with regards to the tasks we undertake will ALWAYS mean i...

Putting aside company politics, and with all the best intentions, you have to assess your suitability and capability for undertaking this role, specifically with regards to the risk assessment issue of unloading something that has arrived without prior notification. This happens regulaly where i wor...

I work as an HSEQ Manager for an organisation employing 27 people with a turn over of around £4mill, my son works for an organisation 3 times the size of mine and they outsource their H&S responsabilities to a consultant who visits once a month.........................go figure eh

We too were visited last week. Inspector stayed about half an hour, looked at the H&S notice board, made a few suggestions during her walk round, verbally commented on a missing guard on a Pillar Drill, a ladder propped against a wall, keys left in a FLT, and the fact our operatives were walking...