Under health and safety law, you must have first aid provision in your workplace, as you are responsible for making sure that your employees receive immediate help if they are taken ill or are injured at work. It is imperative to remember that accidents and illness can occur at any time and first aid can save lives and prevent minor injuries from becoming major ones. First aid provision needs to available at all time people [...]

The basic position is that with a few necessary exceptions Equality Act 2010 s.60 makes it inappropriate for an employer to ask a job applicant any health related questions before offering work to the job applicant. Merely asking questions about the job applicant’s health is not unlawful disability discrimination but anything the employer does in reliance on information given in response to such questions may be. While merely asking the question is not disability discrimination [...]

As an employer, you must assess and manage health and safety risks – whether you are a big business, a small business or just a one-person operation. Accidents and ill health can ruin lives and damage your business. You are not expected to eliminate all risk, but you are required to protect people as far as ‘reasonably practicable’. A risk assessment is an important tool in protecting your workers and your business. It helps you [...]

The campaign centres around a ‘ladder exchange’ which gives everyone the opportunity to get rid of old, damaged and broken ladders and trade them for new ones. Over 5000 ladders have been exchanged under this scheme since it first launched in 2007. Big Brother star Craig Phillips (construction entrepreneur and winner of the first series of the reality show), currently staring on ITV1’s 60 Minute Makeover is well aware health and safety at every level [...]

Copyright www.businesswomenscafe.com If you run a business, you must have clear health and safety rules in place and ensure that workers follow them. This was the message delivered by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which said that following sensible working practices – for example by referring to an HSE manual – reduces the risk of employees getting injured. The HSE made its comments in the wake of an incident in which a worker died [...]