Health and Safety Advisors
The roll of a health and safety advisors is varied from fire risk assessments to RIDDOR reporting.
LOLER - Your obligations as an employer
The LOLER Regulations aim to reduce risks to people’s Health and Safety from lifting equipment provided for use at work. To further complicate matters, any lifting equipment used is also subject to the requirements of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER).
LOLER - requirements of LOLER
The LOLER Regulations require that equipment used is strong and stable enough for the particular use and marked to indicate safe working loads, positioned and installed to minimize any risks. Unfortunately though without Health and Safety Experts in-house, it’s difficult to know where to start.
Manual Handling - Compliance through training
Have you considered what would happen if one of your employees injured themselves whilst at work? As their employer you’re likely to come under scrutiny from the HSE; they’ll ask lots of searching questions about their training and your management systems?
In 2008 over a third of all reportable injuries to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) were because of manual handling related problems; but providing the appropriate level of training in house is difficult unless you have your own Health and Safety department so consulting health and safety advisors is essential.
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