Director Briefings: The Quiz!

In the first of Finch Consulting’s new health and safety toolbox talk series for Directors, health and safety specialist solicitor Sue Dearden and former HSE Principal Inspector Melvin Sandell remind Directors of both their corporate and personal duties, and explain the key elements of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

This week Finch summarise the requirements around provision of a safe and healthy workplace under the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992.

Finch Consulting’s Health and Safety legal expert Sue Dearden and Chartered OHS expert Dr Steve Cowley this week pool their knowledge and experience to consider the role of the Board in relation to manual handling risks.

In this briefing Sue Dearden reviews how Directors can support their health and safety specialists in ensuring their business manages the risks from display screen equipment use, to avoid injury to staff as well as to themselves.

This week’s toolbox talk for Directors is presented in a short vodcast on the topic of control of substances hazardous to health. Finch Consulting’s Health and Safety lawyer Sue Dearden and Occupational Hygienist Dr Steve Cowley discuss practical ways in which the Board can help to support corporate compliance in this important area.

Health and safety Solicitor Julia Thomas and Principal Consultants Trevor Howard and Alan Pressley provide an overview of key requirements in the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (“PUWER”) and make some practical suggestions about how Directors can help to identify non-compliances and in turn help to assure corporate compliance.

Working at Height – The biggest cause of accidental death in the workplace.  Easy to get wrong – but also, with a little understanding of the issues and control options, very easy to get right.  In this week’s toolbox talk for Directors, Finch Consulting’s Health and Safety specialist solicitor Sue Dearden, and former Principal HSE Inspector Melvin Sandell review what is meant by working at height, the hierarchy of controls which ensure that the risks from the work at height are reduced to the lowest practicable level and the steps Directors can take to reinforce safe work at height across their business.

This briefing for Directors by health and safety specialist solicitor Sue Dearden and mechanical engineer Tristan Pulford highlights the current key duties and some common but avoidable breaches in fire risk advice for businesses.

In this briefing specialist Health and Safety Solicitor Julia Thomas, Principal Consultant Dr Richard Brown, and Senior Consultant Michael Campbell, discuss potential duties and obligations under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (“CDM”) 2015.

In this week’s Directors Briefing Finch noise and vibration specialists Timothy Ward, and Teli Chinelis provide advice on managing hand-arm vibration in the workplace.

In this penultimate issue of our Director’s Briefings, engineer and training expert Martin White and health and safety solicitor Sue Dearden consider; what is meant by “the competent person” required in every organisation to assist in implementing measures which keep the business compliant on health and safety issues, and make practical suggestions of questions Directors could raise to be assured of the competence of their competent person.

In this briefing for Directors, as part of our series, noise expert Teli Chinelis and health and safety solicitor Sue Dearden consider industrial deafness. Not just the province of heavy industry, hearing loss is a significant issue currently affecting more than 10 million people in the UK.

The last in our current series of Directors’ Briefings, this vodcast from H&S Solicitor Sue Dearden and occupational hygienist Steve Cowley takes a look at PPE, why it’s at the bottom of the hierarchy of controls, and the role Directors have in challenging its use within their organisation when better risk controls could be used, and reinforcing compliance with the correct use of PPE when there is no better alternative.