Chemicals are surprisingly prevalent in our modern world, and not just in large industrial organisations. Even small local businesses such as hairdressers, gardeners, cleaners and pest controllers use chemicals that if not carefully handled, can cause serious injury....
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The dangers of repetitive strain injuries
To the non-medically trained eye, the terms ‘Tenosynovitis’, ‘Dupuytren’s contracture’, and ‘Epicondylitis’ might be lost on you completely. Thankfully these conditions can be grouped by a slightly more memorable name - ‘repetitive strain injury’ (RSI). Such injuries...
Is your employer pulling their weight? The Importance of Safe Manual Handling
The somewhat anodyne health and safety term, ‘manual handling’, refers to the movement of any item by lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, or pulling; actions that many workers do all day, every day. While not all new employees see manual handling training as the...
Have you been the victim of an assault at work?
Actual and threatened violence at work is shockingly common. In 2015/16, according to the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), there were 698,000 reported cases of violence at work – approximately half were threatened, and half resulted in an actual assault. This...
Eye injuries At Work Are No Comedy Spectacle
According to the Amsterdam-based eye surgeon, Richard Zegers, out of 92 Laurel and Hardy films, 88 of them would have resulted in serious eye injuries for one or more of the actors. Oliver Hardy was the primary victim, and Stan Laurel’s finger was the most common...