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Health and Safety

September 7th, 2011

The Bottom Line is a newly developed free to access website developed by Peninsula. It is also a quarterly published magazine by the same company which is distributed only to the clients of the firm. The first edition of the magazine was published in the year 1996 and since then the magazine has become more and more educating, entertaining and informative.

As the magazine is mainly concerned with business and provides its readers with subject matters which are related with business. News, expert views and articles dealing with matters as to how to manage and deal company staffs in the volatile corporate environment is published time to time. Articles also deal with the health and safety, employment laws and the latest changes in government legislation.

The magazine is particularly special for the managers who are responsible for the health and safety or deal with the HR matters of the company.

The magazine can be very helpful in providing a complete protection for the business and its associates as well. Sometimes complying with the health and safety requirements can be very tiresome and a time consuming task. This health and safety requirements sometimes places huge responsibility on the shoulders of the senior managers and the business owners. The Bottom Line to a certain extent helps the managers in solving out these problems. The health and safety services rendered by peninsula helps the managers in understand the problem in a better way enabling them to fulfill their obligations.

The firm is also engaged in providing value added services, systems and knowledge which will keep the clients one step ahead of the competition. The firm also provides round the cloak services to its clients.

The clients can easily contact at any time of the day and any day of the year. The problem might be an urgent one or just a casual enquiry, all the problems will be solved at once. The essential services offered by the firm even supports the bespoke health and safety management systems. These systems are used for creating and helping the clients in implementing a legally compliant and safe work place as well as business.

Along with the health and safety services the firm also provides the clients various health and safety courses which aim at further developing the understanding and knowledge of the clients in the field. The firm also stands by the clients in case of legal proceeding against them. During legal proceedings the firm provides complete legal representation along with protection against the costs which has to be incurred.

It ensures that the client gets out of the legal minefield without any loss. With the vast experience of 25 years at hand Peninsula will surely make the toughest of situation run smoothly for the clients. The wide network of the firm ensures that its clients are provided with spot solutions of their problems wherever they might be located. The tailor made solutions along with the risk management issues helps protect the clients against all kinds of risks.

About the Author: The author writes articles on thebottomlineonline.co.uk. For more information about The Bottom Line Online, A Free Online Resource for Health and Safety, Employment Law and Personnel advice written by Peninsula can be found on the net. Please visit www.thebottomlineonline.co.uk

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Construction Health and Safety

July 19th, 2011

On the 6th of April 2007 the government introduced The new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations which are designed to improve the general safety of construction sites and cut down on the number of accidents experienced during construction projects.

This new set of regulations will replace two predecessors – The CMD Regulations 1994 and The Construction (Health Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996. Any outdated regulations were updated before the two sets were consolidated into a single new set of rules and guidelines.

Despite advances in construction and communication technology construction sites are still considered to be unnecessarily dangerous working environments, with around one third of all workplace fatalities occurring in construction and many thousands of injured occurring during construction projects each year. These injuries and deaths have a wide reaching significant impact with colleagues, family, friends and of course the unfortunate individual, not to mention the possible legal implications for the construction company involved.

The primary aim of the new regulations is to build construction health and safety into every stage of building projects from start to finish. The regulations apply to everyone involved with a construction project and stipulate that each must take account of health and safety. This starts with the Client who commissions the construction works and includes Designers, Principle Contractors, Contractors and Construction Workers.

Another aim of the new regulations is the discouragement and removal of all unnecessary red tape and bureaucracy which are since as a major contributing factor in construction injuries and fatalities.

By eliminating hazards at the earliest stages of design and focussing effort where it will be most effective the new regulations should allow for more attention to be paid to important on site issues.

Whilst these benefits of the new CDM regulations clearly apply to construction companies, construction workers and other related professions, many of them also impact directly on clients who either do their own small scale construction and maintenance work or contract it out to others. If a person believes the new regulations do not affect them because they are not involved in the construction industry then they are probably wrong. For example, if the person has responsibility for any property that requires occasional maintenance work then, as the Client, they are required to comply with some very specific duties.

Within the new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations a domestic client is defined as anyone who lives, or will live in the premises where the construction work is carried out. Although a domestic client does not have construction health and safety duties under the CDM Regulations 2007 anyone employed by them on a construction project will.

Other roles also have defined duties under the new CDM regulations, for example:

Designers – this includes any person responsible for any part of the design work such as Architects, Project Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Engineers, Interior Designers or anyone else who is traditionally employed on the design stage of a construction project as a “contractor”.
Principal Contractor – this is the key duty holder responsible for including health and safety compliance in the overall planning, effective management and coordination of the construction phase.
Contractor – this includes any person who carries out or manages construction work as part of their business activities.

If a person is in doubt about the specific implications of the new CDM Regulations on their own construction project and require guidance about their own responsibilities, it would be advisable to employ the services of professional construction health and safety consultants.

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Health and Safety Training

April 5th, 2011

Health and safety training
Health and safety training is a fundamental tool used in the workplace that can ensure that all your staff and anybody visiting your site remain safe for the duration that they are with your company. There are many myths about what the HSE do and do not allow you to do in the workplace, lots of these are just that, myths, the main aim health and safety training is to ensure the safety of everyone and the prevention of accidents. As they say prevention is better than cure. This article is aimed at looking at some of the factors that you need to consider when looking at health and safety training. The article will then conclude by informing you on where you can find more information on health and safety training and health and safety consultants.

The first steps to creating your health and safety training
The first thing to remember is that you are legally required to manage and asses the health and safety risk of your workplace.

The HSE has created a five step plan to make sure you cover the following:
1. Identify the hazards
2. Decide who might be harmed and how
3. Evaluate the risks and decide on precautions
4. Record your findings and implement them
5. Review your assessment and update if necessary.

All of the above steps will ensure that you have covered ever basis when considering creating your health and safety training. A very important thing to remember is not to over complicate things, in most companies the risk factors are easily identifiable and this means you can easily identify the necessary control measures. The HSE also have their own risk assessment and policy templates that you can download to either use as a guide or as a foundation to your HSE risk assessment.

What to do if you still need more information on health and safety training
If after all of this you still require additional information on health and safety then don’t fear help is at hand. All you have to do is enter the keyword ‘health and safety training’ into an internet search engine.

This will pull up a multitude of website that will be able to offer help, advice and guidance on HSE risk assessments, this is also useful to use as a guide to confirm that you are on the correct track with your very own HSE risk assessment. Just remember never over complicate your risk assessment and if in doubt seek additional guidance as it is imperative that your risk assessment is accurate.