Secure Workplace Culture
Building a Secure Workplace Culture: Ensuring a Secure Work Environment The Stark Reality of Workplace Hazards Workplace accidents remain a significant concern across various industries, with falls, machinery-related injuries, and hazardous substance exposure being common risks. Every year, thousands of workers in Europe suffer injuries due to preventable workplace incidents. While some sectors, such as construction and manufacturing, are particularly high-risk, no workplace is entirely free from hazards. Employers and employees alike must take workplace…
Choosing the Right Health and Safety Training Provider: Ensure Compliance Workplace Safety
Choosing the Right Health and Safety Training Provider The Critical Choice in Workplace Safety In today's dynamic work environments, ensuring employee safety isn't just a regulatory obligation—it's a moral imperative. The effectiveness of your health and safety protocols hinges significantly on the quality of training provided. But with a plethora of training providers available, how do you discern which one aligns best with your organization's needs? The Significance of Selecting the Right Provider Choosing an…
Tailoring Safety Training for your Staff & Contractors
Conflict resolution is a challenging area, but as a manager or supervisor, it comes with the job. Although it is challenging, it can extremely rewarding also. It’s another attribute that you can add to your skill set and an excellent addition to your personal development.
Understanding Safety: How to Approach Worker Consultation
Understanding Safety: How to Approach Worker Consultation ANDY TILLEARD EHS Consultant EazySAFE Worker consultation is a legal requirement within Irish health and safety legislation so that employers can carry out their duties in law to communicate workplace hazards and to promote occupational health and safety. Communications is a key component of any safety management system (both from the top-down and from the bottom-up) for employers, employees and third parties to be involved with the exchange…
Manual Handling
Manual Handling GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE Back injuries and back pain are something that most people suffer during their lifetime. A lot of the time, back injuries happen in the workplace. In fact, according to the HSA manual handling accidents are the most common accidents (2019) and these accidents usually cause back injuries. So, it makes sense for any company to focus on reducing all manual handling risks as much as possible to ensure employees are…
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE We hear the term risk assessments bandied about all the time regarding health and safety. However, from my experience, many people are unaware of how important they are, what they are and how they really are the foundation of ensuring you are adhering to health and safety legislation and maintaining your health and safety management system. In simple terms, a risk assessment is a thorough examination of what, in a workplace, could cause harm,…
Rebuilding the Workplace
Rebuilding the Workplace LISA QUINN O'FLAHERTY Solicitor Fitzsimons Redmond Never before have we had such a blank slate to shape our workplaces to suit the needs of all stakeholders. Office workers have kept businesses afloat over the last year and a half from their own homes. They have proven that the model where everybody works from a central office is both unnecessary and outdated. Workers have shown that targets can be met while working from…
Understanding Safety: Workers in Sensitive Risk Groups
Understanding Safety: Workers in Sensitive Risk Groups ANDY TILLEARD EHS Consultant EazySAFE There are myriad environments that people work in on a day to day basis in which they are able to work without undue problems, what most of us would consider to be a normal working regime. Although there are some more hazardous risk management issues that may need to be assessed and managed, such as working with chemicals, working in a confined space…
Hidden Dangers – Office Safety
The office is not the first place you would think of when you think of safety at work! Office places would not usually fall into the high-risk category, but this does not mean that no hazards exist here. Let’s take a closer look. A job where most work tasks are carried out while sitting in a chair in a climate-controlled office would …
Understanding Safety: Safety Statements
The term safety statement is used to describe a document which summarises how an Irish company manages risk and provides an opportunity for company management to show commitment to their employees that workplace risk is effectively managed.