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Healthy Workplaces – New European Campaign 30.04.12
Evaluation of CDM 2007 30.04.12
Asbestos Regulations – What has Changed? 30.04.12
Drought Management Briefing 5 April 2012: Environment Agency 30.04.12
WEEE Recycling Figures are not Adding Up Compliance 30.04.12
RIDDOR Change - 6 April 2012 06.04.12
Health & Safety in 2012 and beyond - perception versus reality 05.04.12
IEMA Call for opinions for revision of 14001 05.04.12
Climate Week - Businesses Shown How to Respond to Climate Change 05.04.12
Asbestos Prosecutions 06.03.12
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SKM Enviros Health & Safety Blog
Enforcement of H&S Standards
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JAN 12
Companies should be better equipped at enforcing health and safety standards such as warning signs, a specialist has insisted.
The Lofstedt Review has highlighted that it is not health and safety law that has led to needless restrictions, rather it is people's inability to implement the measures in a proportionate, risk-assessed manner.
Roger Bibbings, occupational safety advisor at RoSPA, said: "Basically, we have goal-setting health and safety law in the UK, which requires people to think, rather than just obey blanket rules. Lofstedt should help promote a culture change."
Mr Bibbings added that the review underlined the costs of work related health damage, which are still soaring up to £20 billion in the UK each year.
This news comes after the independent secure shredding firm Russell Richardson gained the SAFEcontractor accreditation, expressing its excellent health and safety practices.
Safety Signs News
December 2011
News items sourced from: barbour.info, edie.net, netregs.gov.uk, nqa.com, iema.net, hse.gov.uk
