Heavy machinery necessitates special consideration when it comes to workplace health and safety. Whether construction machinery, a vehicle, a manufacturing machine, industrial crane, or any of the other variants of heavy machinery, when being operated, there is little...
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Keeping an eye on eye safety in the workplace
Eyes are especially vulnerable to workplace injury and accidents, are such occurrences are typically easily avoided, but not always. Consider the fairly new phenomenon of laser pens. There are now many cases of pilots, civilian and military, who have suffered serious...
The serious risk of fire-related accidents at work
Fires can happen in an instant, and lead to life-long consequences. No more is this illustrated than in a recent case investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in which a man was severely burnt while refuelling a tank of petrol while at work. The accident...
Workplace safety for those with existing disabilities
Almost one in five Brits is classed as disabled; that is 13.3 million people. Of those, approximately 17% of those people were born with their disability, but the majority were acquired in later life, due to illness, accidents, or other factors. It is estimated that...
The dangers of working in the offshore energy industry
Think of the UK offshore energy industry and you will be forgiven for thinking mainly of oil and natural gas. But times are changing, and renewable offshore energy production now supplies an increasingly large source of our energy needs (nearly 30% in 2017). In fact,...