Lloyds Resister have recently published a report, ‘Employee well-being during a pandemic’, based on a survey of 5,500 people in 11 countries taken during December 2020. The aim of the survey was to determine the mental health impact caused by the change in working...
Last month Cameron House Resort (Loch Lomond) Ltd, the owners of the Cameron House Hotel, plead guilty to two separate offences under the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 at Dumbarton Sheriff Court following a fire in December 2017 which tragically claimed the lives of two...
I wonder how many of us, who were able to work from home since last March, still expected to be doing so some nine months on, and counting? Back then it may have been assumed that these homeworking arrangements would only be for a few weeks. In many cases, supplying...
During the autumn 2020 term HSE carried out spot checks to determine the measures schools were taking to minimise the spread of Covid-19. 500 Scottish schools in 16 local authorities were contacted, these included schools in both the state and independent sectors. The...
HSE have announced recent change to requalification requirements for First Aid at Work, and Emergency First Aid at Work certificates. First Aid at Work or Emergency First at Work certificates that expired after 16th March 2020 can remain valid until 31st October 2020,...
The next chapter in the new normality - returning to the workplace post lockdown Introduction For many the new normality over these past weeks has been adapting, very quickly, to working from home over an extended period. For many others this ‘normality’ has seen them...
For many employers having employees working from home has never been a consideration and equally many employees will have never worked from home before. With the appropriate consideration and resources, a homeworker should be no less effective than they would be if...
Insurance company Zurich estimate that around 15% of all workplace fires are as a result of ‘hot work’. Hot work refers to work activities that involve open flames, applying heat or friction, or may generate sparks or heat. Common examples of hot works are: Welding,...
Contractors are used to carry out activities where the client does not have the necessary skills, experience or resources to do so themselves. Failing to effectively manage contractors can and does lead to accidents affecting not only the contractors’ employees but...
During 2018 and 2019, total fines for health and safety offences prosecuted by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (Scotland) and the HSE (England and Wales) equated to £54.5m, although this was down 25% on the £72.6m for the 2017 / 2018 reporting period....