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Morning Stephen, My schedule is the following: Control Panel inspection - Daily Call points - weekly FFE - Monthly inspection by me, annual by service company Fire doors - monthly check by myself E Lighting - monthly visual by me, 6 monthly 1 hr discharge, annual service and 3 hr discharge by servic...

Hi Mike,
If you are focusing on Health, would it be possible to put your advisors on a mental health first aid course. I found it very informative and it did make me look at what I could do to support colleagues and give them an outlet to speak to when needed.

Hi launchit, I don't know how many people on here can honestly say that their company ethics are geared towards an H&S Nirvana. A lot of companies certainly talk the talk, but in reality, "HSE does not make the company profit, operations do" is the actual mantra. I did once work for a company which ...

I am of the same opinion as WillPool
I was informed they are not regarded as a control measure, they only keep hands warmer.

Scott

If you have an instruction on how to do the job, you would assume, maybe wrongly, that it will be the safe method. Hopefully the instruction will have been written by a team comprising of relevant personnel.

Hi all,

Does anyone produce a monthly or quarterly newsletter for their company?

Can anyone give me a copy for some inspiration please.

ScottD

cheers Paul

I have the benefit of having had legionella risk assessments from a 3rd party available, this is just to "train" our responsible people on their duties as far as legionella is concerned. I was going to take a course first to being me up to speed and then recommend the course to our senior managers e...

Yes, all the modules are online (tip, make notes as you go along) and this has a small "test" at the end of each module based on what was presented. The end module is the scoring test where it is made up of a selection of these mini test questions.

Hi all, I am wondering if any of you can recommend a Responsible Person Legionella course in Scotland. I have seen a few through searching with a lot of variety of course content including a 2-3 hr online one (all the classroom ones are 2 day so that left me wondering the validity of it.) thanks in ...

Hi Donnyluke,

I completed the IOSH Behavioural Safety Leadership Programme (on-line course) through RSS. worthwhile course with modules and a end of course exam.
https://www.behaviouralsafetyservices.com/

I attended IOSH Scotland Conference last week and found the keynote speaker, Martin Coyd, Mace Group, an amazing speaker. He is a champion of mental health in construction and, to be honest, was mesmerised by his talk. I am looking into a mental health first aider course.