Competence in Health and Safety – Who’s the Judge?
Where:Aversion Ltd, Unit 6 Turnberry Park, Gildersome, Leeds, LS27 7LE.
When:Monday 18th October 2010
Timings:08:00 – 10:00
Cost:Nil – Free briefing
Why the Briefing is relevant:
 The HSE is now focussing attention on “competency” and asking some very awkward questions, which could fundamentally [...]

HSE Investigations – How not to lose a good case!
Where: Aversion Ltd, Unit 6 Turnberry Park, Gildersome, Leeds, LS27 7LE.
When: Monday 22nd November 2010
Timings: 08:00 – 10:00
Cost: Nil – Free briefing
Why the Briefing is relevant:
The briefing is of relevance to all organisations that regularly encounter HSE and local authority enforcement of health and safety. It [...]

Avoiding trapping/crushing injuries to people in the platform of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWPs)
The HSE have recently issued a Safety Bulletin in relation to the prevention of entrapment of operators using MEWPs adjacent to obstructions. 
The use of MEWPs has contributed to the reduction of falls from heights since their introduction, and they are often [...]

FASET (Fall Arrest Safety Equipment Training) have launched a 4-day training course for those required to work at height to rig safety nets from open steel work.  The FASET Specialist Rigger Qualification. 
FASET are the trade association serving the safety net industry in the UK and Ireland and have developed the course/qualification in conjunction with NARC [...]

The City of Lincoln Council and County Waste (Lincs) Ltd left a family exposed to asbestos fibres for three days before any action was taken.   Both the Council and the contractor have been prosecuted after the Council contracted County Waste to investigate how asbestos insulation board (AIB) was fixed with a view to removing the [...]

A Hertfordshire company has been fined after a worker was seriously hurt when he was struck by steel beams falling from a tower crane.

Stephen James, 58, was working as a slinger (a person directing crane drivers) for John Doyle Construction Ltd at a residential development at Wilton Plaza in Victoria in September 2007.
City of London [...]

Safe use of telehandlers