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Workplace and Personal Safety

If you are working alone in a workplace, you need to make sure you keep your mobile phone with you or anything that you can communicate with people. You also need to make sure people actually know where you are.

Parking Safety

Parking and leaving in your car can result in accidents.  Reversing your car takes more concentration than driving into or out of a space so many workplaces have a reverse park policy.  The idea is that in the morning you…

Hand Arm Vibration

Hand Arm Vibration or HAV is a collective name for two main conditions: vibration white finger and carpal tunnel syndrome. Vibration white finger cases are numbered around 600 a year and the number of cases has decreased over the last…

Electrocution of animals

An electric shock is referred to as electrocution and it can be seen in all ages but it is more common in younger puppies as they have a habit of chewing through cables.  Electrocution can also occur anywhere there is…

Carbon Monoxide

  Carbon monoxide is a silent killer as it is colourless and odourless and in concentrations, it can be fatal.  Carbon Monoxide can be found in the home and businesses from cars, machines and gas central heating or cookers.

Animals vomiting

When animals vomit it could be caused by a number of different things from mild food poisoning to serious life-threatening illnesses like Pancreatitis.  The problem can be decided if the vomiting is something serious that you need a vet for…

The Fire Triangle

In order for fire to establish, it needs three things: oxygen, heat and fuel. These three elements are called the fire triangle.

Fire Risk Assessments

A business has a legal duty to ensure that any risk from fire or the effects of fire are kept by to an absolute minimum. In order to find out what risks there are, you would need to do a…

Hepatitis C

The hepatitis C virus or HCV reproduces in the liver causing inflammation and possibly cirrhosis or liver cancer.  There are six main strains of the virus. In the UK, the most common strains are known as genotype 1 and genotype…

Asthma

Asthma is a common life-threatening condition and its severity is often not recognised.  Asthma is a medical condition characterised by intermittent, reversible airway obstruction. Asthma is a condition that affects the airways – the small tubes that carry air in…