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Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015

News Released from HSE and CITBREVISED CONSTRUCTION (DESIGN & MANAGEMENT) REGULATIONS 2015January 2015Subject to Parliamentary approval, the revised Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) will come into force on 6 April 2015.The draft...

Winter Safety

As a business you are no doubt aware of many of the ‘winter risks’ within your business.  The level of risk will vary from business to business but the most common areas of risk in the winter are; ‘Driving at Work’, ‘Slips, Trips and Falls’ and ‘Working...

20 Tradespeople die every week

HSE launch new Asbestos safety campaign Did you know that if you work in the ‘Trades’ you could come into contact with deadly asbestos on average more than 100 times a year – this alarming statistic comes from a new survey commissioned by the Health...

Letting agency ignored need for property’s gas safety checks

A Birmingham lettings agency has been fined after failing to ensure gas safety checks were made on a property it managed, potentially putting tenants’ lives at risk. MT Properties Central Ltd, based in Small Heath, failed to arrange the statutory landlord gas safety...

Landlords in court over carbon monoxide poisoning

Two Bolton landlords have been fined after a four-month-old baby and both his parents were taken to hospital with carbon monoxide poisoning.They were prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found four gas appliances at a property on...

Emergency Salbutamol Inhalers Legal from 1st October

Asthma is the most common chronic condition. It affects one in eleven children and there are over 25,000 emergency hospital admissions each year in the UK for children with asthma. A recent Asthma UK survey found that 86% of children with asthma have at some time been...