The three day IOSH Managing Safely program is designed to get managers up to speed on the practical actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their teams.

The course is for managers and supervisors within any sector and provides full step-by-step guidance, with a sharp business focus.

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To make an enquiry about this course, email training@redhills.co.uk or call: 01306 631820.

Redhills provides Institute of Health and Safety (IOSH) approved courses in managing and working safely; the NEBOSH General Certificate in occupational health and safety; working at heights, manual handling and fork lift driving; fire safety training for managers, marshals and employees; and water safety training; and COSHH management.

Courses are available in two forms: on a dedicated basis, delivered to your people and designed specifically to meet your particular needs; or as open courses, where you and your people can exchange experiences with other industry professionals.

Our services also include:

Surveying

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Compliance Management

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HEALTH and safety prosecutions are taking years to complete, and getting even longer, an inspector has warned.

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Based on the Health and Safety Executive’s ‘five steps to risk assessment’, this one day course gives you the knowledge and tools to undertake risk assessments.

Importantly, it brings home just why risk assessment is an essential part of keeping the workforce and others safe.

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To make an enquiry about this course, email training@redhills.co.uk or call: 01306 631820.

Redhills provides Institute of Health and Safety (IOSH) approved courses in managing and working safely; the NEBOSH General Certificate in occupational health and safety; working at heights, manual handling and fork lift driving; fire safety training for managers, marshals and employees; and water safety training; and COSHH management.

Courses are available in two forms: on a dedicated basis, delivered to your people and designed specifically to meet your particular needs; or as open courses, where you and your people can exchange experiences with other industry professionals.

Our services also include:

Surveying

Consultancy and Analysis

Compliance Management

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This one day course designed to refresh the understanding and competency of those who undertake or supervise manual handling in their work and make them aware of their individual and collective legal responsibilities.

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To make an enquiry about this course, email training@redhills.co.uk or call: 01306 631820.

Redhills provides Institute of Health and Safety (IOSH) approved courses in managing and working safely; the NEBOSH General Certificate in occupational health and safety; working at heights, manual handling and fork lift driving; fire safety training for managers, marshals and employees; and water safety training; and COSHH management.

Courses are available in two forms: on a dedicated basis, delivered to your people and designed specifically to meet your particular needs; or as open courses, where you and your people can exchange experiences with other industry professionals.

Our services also include:

Surveying

Consultancy and Analysis

Compliance Management

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CARDINUS Risk Management has been awarded ISO 27001 accreditation for the provision of risk assessment and e-learning software, training, services and consultancy in connection with the safety risk management market.

Cardinus, which is based in the UK, provides risk assessment and e-learning software, training systems and consultancy services to more than two million users worldwide. Data management is at the core of many Cardinus services and it is the analysis and application of health and safety data that makes Cardinus solutions so effective.

It provides safety and risk management systems to some of the world’s largest companies as well as many public sector entities. These organisations demand and dictate best practice in the key areas of health and safety and data management and protection.

Andy Hawkes, CEO of Cardinus Risk Management, said, “We are delighted to have gained this accreditation as managing personal and corporate data is a core competency that many companies in our sector fail to understand. We wanted to become one of the world’s first safety organisations to hold this accreditation as evidence of our total commitment to information security.”

Implementing the ISO27001 standard ensures that an organisation formally specifies a management system intended to bring information security under explicit management control. It is recognised throughout the globe as best practice.

Barbara Snape, IT director at Cardinus, said, “This has been a major project with all parts of our systems, processes and procedures reviewed, revised and scrutinised to exacting standards. This is an absolute sign of our commitment to delivering products and services that meet the highest levels of security at all times.”

Cardinus Risk Management has been producing and supplying risk management services and e-learning courses since 1995. Its customers include many of the world’s leading organisations, a large number of small and medium-sized organisations and central government departments.

Its innovative online assessment and e-learning solutions save money and help organisations to comply with legislation. Products are endorsed by the International Institute of Risk and Safety Management and have won numerous awards.

For more information about cost-effective e-learning and other Cardinus products telephone 020 7469 0200.

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Notes to Editors

Cardinus directors, experts and consultants are available for interview and quotes on industry issues. The full range of Cardinus consultancy services can be seen on its website, www.cardinus.com or you can telephone 0207 469 0200 (UK) 1-866-966-3420 (US).

About Cardinus

Cardinus Risk Management is part of AmWINS Group, Inc. which has 70 locations across 17 countries, including 50 in the United States. With more than 2,000 employees, AmWINS is an amalgamation of more than 25 wholesale brokerage, underwriting and group benefit operations.

Cardinus provides online injury reduction solutions and risk management within the safety, fleet and property sectors. Established in 1995, it has an enviable track record of working with government and leading blue chip organizations. Cardinus provides solutions to customers across the United Kingdom, the US and worldwide. Solutions include ‘Workstation Safety Plus’ a software solution designed to reduce the risks associated with using DSE and ergonomics; a comprehensive fleet risk solution that combines in-vehicle driver training with online self-assessment; property solutions including fire risk surveys, asbestos assessment and a range of e-learning courses. Cardinus Environmental provides a range of services, including Environmental Essentials.

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“I hear so many companies that say health and safety is their number-one priority,” the HSE chair Judith Hackitt told a packed plenary session at the IOSH 13 Conference.

“Health and safety needs to become a core value in all businesses. Whether it has to become a bigger priority in its own right, I would really question.”

Speaking as part of a panel discussion on what action is needed over the coming 12 months to make health and safety a bigger priority across all industries, Ms Hackitt painted a very pragmatic picture of health and safety management for the year ahead, both within her own organisation and the myriad businesses it regulates.

She insisted that the regulatory framework is fit for purpose and that its reform work in this area is simply about “stripping out the duplication and the overlap”. When it comes to guidance, however, the HSE is focused on making it more accessible because “the easier you make things, the greater the compliance and the better the performance”.

Dr G Todd Wright, managing director of Sellafield, agreed, but added that priorities for businesses change and often get influenced by other priorities. He highlighted leadership, communication and training as the three core elements in health and safety that will help his business prepare for a crucial period of decommissioning nuclear facilities.

Dr Karl-Ulrich Kohler, CEO and managing director of Tata Steel, adopted a different stance, insisting that there is no discrepancy between saying health and safety is a priority and the realities of the business. He suggested that the reason his company describes health and safety as a priority is for communication. He said: “It’s not a question about motives. The one thing you can’t replace is health and the wellbeing of people. They are our strength and we need to protect them.”

For Dr Richard Heron, vice-president health and chief medical officer at BP, and also president of the Society of Occupational Medicine, the priorities are focused on occupational health and hygiene.

“Many of our strategies are long-term strategies,” he told the audience, highlighting the ageing workforce population and rising obesity as issues that could have major health and safety implications in the years ahead. He underlined the opportunities presented by the Black/Frost report, which proposes broad OH access and provision. “It needs to be professionally-driven by occupational-health professionals and we need to drive that over the next 12 months.”

Andrew McNaughton, deputy chief executive at Balfour Beatty, gave a practical example of how employers could influence employees’ health and wellbeing, highlighting how the company had introduced a ‘Walking World Challenge’, which encourages teams of employees to ‘walk around the world’, with the use of pedometers counting their steps – both at work and in their personal lives.

As expected HSE inspections and Fee for Intervention (FFI) were never far from the debate. Responding to a point from the floor that businesses would welcome HSE visits for advice and support in managing safety, Ms Hackitt said: “We know people continue to value visits by the HSE. Some continue to fear visits, but many value the advice they receive from visits.”

Reminding delegates that the HSE has formulated sector-specific strategies to help it target those sectors and companies at the higher end of the risk spectrum, she stressed that this approach is the best use of its resource at a time when it is under pressure to make economies.

Dr Kohler, however, suggested the HSE is moving away from sharing and learning with industry by withdrawing from inspections in certain sectors and through FFI, which could “create a distance [between the regulator and the duty-holder] and create an obstacle”.

“Often, you’re talking about balances often, and how much judgement do you apply,” he explained, adding that by visiting businesses, the HSE would have a more mature understanding of responsibility at operational levels.
On a similar theme, Dr Richard Heron suggested that leaders of businesses need to spend time in the field, asking questions, listening to workers and finding out what their health and safety issues involve.

The importance on leadership was reiterated as the panel summed up their thoughts on the challenges ahead. Dr Kohler insisted that “leaders have to be the best health and safety agents in the business,” while Ms Hackitt championed health and safety practitioners as the conscience of the business and identifiers of gaps and solutions. She concluded: “Never, never allow bosses to delegate health and safety to you. You have to push it back up to them.”

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The Health and Safety Executive is a great source for all the updates you need for health and safety within the workplace.

It seems that the issue of incorrect manual handling  is causing more workplace injuries therefore the HSE has up to date information on how you as a employer and employee can prevent injuries happening.

Manual handling causes over a third of all workplace injuries. These include work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) such as pain and injuries to arms, legs and joints, and repetitive strain injuries of various sorts.

The term manual handling covers a wide variety of activities including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying. If any of these tasks are not carried out appropriately there is a risk of injury.

Why is dealing with manual handling important?

Manual handling injuries can have serious implications for the employer and the person who has been injured. They can occur almost anywhere in the workplace and heavy manual labour, awkward postures, repetitive movements of arms, legs and back or previous/existing injury can increase the risk.

What do I have to do?

To help prevent manual handling injuries in the workplace, you should avoid such tasks as far as possible. However, where it is not possible to avoid handling a load, employers must look at the risks of that task and put sensible health and safety measures in place to prevent and avoid injury.

For more information on how to reduce the chances of workplace injuries, visit the HSE website.

References: Health and Safety Executive

Behavioural safety training and accident reduction specialists Azea Ltd announced the launch of a new campaign to promote their behavioural safety training programmes aimed at improving workplace safety and reducing workplace accidents in the energy & utilities sector.

The campaign called ‘Create your Safety Bubble in 2013’ will focus on delivering messages to organisations in the construction, mining, rail and utilities sectors, to enable them to achieve long term positive change within 12 months.  Azea has worked with a broad range of clients from the utilities industry to provide safety training solutions designed to improve workplace safety culture, improve productivity and ultimately reduce workplace accidents.  Clients include Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions, Amec, National Grid, Enterprise, Babcock.

“Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions is one of the UK’s leading utility suppliers, and the safety of our employees is our top priority. Over a seven-year relationship, Azea has delivered a number of bespoke employee behavioural safety projects for Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions, consistently providing above industry average results. I would not hesitate to recommend them to other companies looking to enhance the culture and safety mind set within their own organisation”. UK Training Manager, Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions.

The Azea programme produces positive outputs which allows employees to

• Understand the programme (knowledge dispels fear)
• Work together in harmony (creating a common goal drives performance)
• Aim for objectives within the programme (motivates through setting achievable goals)
• Adhere to something that they believe in (if they understand and believe in it they will accept it)

Azea offers a variety of structured programmes to fit all companies’ budgets and timeframes.  The Safety Bubble campaign has been designed so that it can fit into any company’s productivity cycle.

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Bruce Durham, Azea Director of Training said:

“When one person is inspired to safeguard their own working area (anything within arm’s reach) they create their own Safety Bubble.  When everyone is inspired to do this, all these safe working areas come together to form a large Safety Bubble. This protects the individuals, teams, contracts and the company as a whole”.

He went on to say:

“To keep this Safety Bubble effective all actions are preceded by this simple question: ‘Will it pop my bubble?’  - If the action is unsafe and could pop yours or anyone else’s Safety Bubble then you simply don’t do it.   It’s very easy to understand and everybody gets it.  That’s why our clients are so successful at reducing accident rates, improving culture and retaining highly skilled employees.  It’s not what we deliver that’s important. It’s how your employees act after we work with them that matters”.

The Azea (Aiming for Zero Employee Accidents) Solution enables companies to achieve safety and financial targets in a controlled, highly efficient and rapid way. Azea have taken a ground breaking approach to enhancing human behaviours, their training programmes are consistently reducing accident rates by improving cultures and attitudes often in a very short time frame.

Behavioural training programmes from Azea enable participants to leave with IOSH accredited Safety Coach and Safety Champion qualifications as well as skills to keep them highly motivated

and to ensure that they are operating in a safer manner once the training is complete. Working with Azea enables companies to create long term safety bubbles that protect people, plant, buildings and the environment, their expertise ensure both staff and the public are safe whilst work is carried out.

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About Azea Limited

Azea is the market leader for providing behavioural safety training and accident reduction solutions to the construction, oil and gas, nuclear and utility industries.  Results include higher productivity, pride in the company, staff retention, and lower accident rates.  Azea enables companies to improve productivity by creating an enthusiastic and positive culture of safety through the empowerment of employees.  This empowerment leads to an effective safety culture being embedded in the DNA of the business.

Azea offers company-transforming experiences that make a real and measurable positive impact on organisations and the daily lives of employees.

Contact Details:

Azea Ltd, Tel:  01665 714 000 E-mail: info@azea.co.uk Website: www.azea.co.uk

Media Enquiries:  For interviews or comments, please contact our PR agency: Katie Brown, SMPR (Simply Marcomms Limited) 0870 199 4044 Email: katie@simplymarcomms.co.uk

Results – We are renowned within industry for rapidly reducing accidents by delivering innovative behavioural training safety solutions. This also applies to improving employee’s ability to react correctly and deal effectively with emergency incidents.

Engaged – Azea was commissioned by one of its large construction and utility clients to try and improve their existing safety record by evaluating their emergency response actions to an incident (in this case it was ‘Tower Rescue’ for working at heights).

The client wanted to improve their employee’s ability to plan and then action emergency responses should an incident occur on site. This was carried out as part of their ‘Zero Harm’ campaign.

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What they know – In relation to behaviour, we design our Emergency Response Evaluations so that the employees can be tested in as much of a ‘real life’ situation as possible. Only three managers knew about the planned exercise and the impact that it had on the company was hugely positive.

All of our emergency response evaluation sessions are designed around the fact that it benefits the employees and the companies to be prepared to deal with ‘real life’ factors that are often not included within a standard training package.

Azea is the market leader for providing behavioural safety training and accident reduction solutions to industries including construction, mining, rail and utilities. Results include higher productivity, pride in the company, staff retention, and lower accident rates. Azea enables companies to improve productivity by creating an enthusiastic and positive culture of safety through the empowerment of employees. This empowerment leads to an effective safety culture being embedded in the DNA of the business.

Azea offers company-transforming experiences that make a real and measurable positive impact on organisations and the daily lives of employees.

Contact Details:

Azea Ltd, Tel: 01665 714 000

E-mail: info@azea.co.uk

Website: www.azea.co.uk

If you are new to health and safety, the Health and Safety Executive(HSE) have published step-by-step guides to help.

The HSE wants everyone at work to be healthy and safe – bringing money and other benefits to your business.

Health and safety is relevant to all businesses. So, if you are an employer – or are self employed – you are responsible for the health, safety and welfare of employees and any others who may be affected by what you do. This includes employees, casual or part time workers, trainees, customers, neighbours, sales people and members of the public.

If you need the key started tips, visit the HSE website, for more information on where to start and how to make health and safety more simple.

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