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Trainers Spotlight: Administration of Medication – Education

In recent years’ the number of children attending education settings with a variety of medication needs has increased.  Acorn understands that medication training needs to take into consideration not only the needs of the child but also those of the staff team and...

Industry Spotlight: Landlords

Understanding your landlord obligations can be tricky as they cover things like condition and repairs, paperwork, administration and safety.   In this industry spotlight, we will briefly cover landlord’s duties on certain safety topics in residential properties....

Top Story: Breathe Freely

Breathe Freely is a campaign from the BOHS (British Occupational Hygiene Society) helping to control exposures to prevent occupational lung disease in industry and aimed at reducing occupational lung disease in the UK, which causes significant debilitating ill-health...

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 Outside’. As a...

Elf and Safety at Christmas Time

Acorn Health and Safety feel it is important to share with you the following message regarding “Elf and Safety” approaching the festive time of year. All employees planning to dash through the snow in a one horse open sleigh, going over the fields and...

The 12 Myths of Christmas – by HSE

Christmas can be a wonderful time. Your home is likely to be full of people and it is in the excitement of the season that accidents can happen very easily. One of the good things about Christmas is that there are typically more people around to supervise the children...