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20 March 2011
Asbestos again, yet more: It now seems that the EU has told the UK to change its asbestos laws as they curremntly exempt some maintenance and repair activities. Don't hold your breath, as with the HSE currenntly in the process of cutting back by 30% we can't see anything happening during this reporting period. As ever we will........
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07 March 2011
Minor Railway Safety Management Systems (SMS): Recent events and an unfortunate incident during a gala at a well known heritage railway line have shown up the deficiencies in that railway’s SMS. There is a HMRI investigation underway which may result in prosecution of both the company and its directors depending on the findings. This could have been avoided if the railway had.....
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21 February 2011
Competencies: We will be checking all competency eveidence over this reporting period and have already altered the induction sheets we provide you to reflect this. If you have not yet recieved the new induction sheets by this time, please contact us for the updated v3 sheets. This topic is.....
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10 January 2011
CPs and RPs. There would seem to be some confusion in the designation of the Competent Person and the Responsible Person, as outlined in the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. This is a reasonably straightforward issue and it is marked on all Green Dragon completed fire risk assessments on the risk assessment front page, sheet.......................
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19th December 2010
As we sit here looking out at the snow, all deep and crisp and even! We would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a safe, happy and prosperous new year. From us all at GD and GD Rail..
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04 December 2010
Safer Food Better Business - Diary Refills are now available from the Food Standards Agency, e mail
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or ring them on 0845 606 0667
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28 November 2010
Snow and severe weather affecting the North of England and Scotland at the moment has caused us to re allocate staff who are responding to emergency and urgent customer calls first. This may cause us to postpone routine and non emergency work until the weather returns to something better than it is now (normal?). As ever our helpline is available and we have a duty officer on standby to take your calls or respond to your e mails. Thank you Ian and the team.
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22nd November 2010
PASSPORT IN TO SAFETY: Following consultations with a number of our Minor Railway customers, we are considering launching a safety passport which is 100% in line with HSE guidance specifically for the minor rail sector, what are your views on this please let us know............
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05 November 2010
Fire extinguishers can save lives: A recent survey by the Fire Industry Association has indicated that fire extinguishers have a vital role to play as a first aid response to a fire. there are a number of reasons for this, incl...............
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22 October 2010
Lord Young's report has arrived after a lot of hype. We here at GD after looking at the report are wondering what all the fuss was about. From our customer's point of view there will be no change. The HSE are going to set up a consultants list to ensure, what? We are not quite sure. If the HSE want less paperwork perhaps they should be leading the way by setting out what is not needed. It would be useful if they communicated this to their inspectors. It is encouraging for us all at GD and GD Rail to note that the policy of RISK MANAGEMENT we adopted in 2003 has been picked up at last by Lord Young. We will keep you updat..............
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12 October 2010
The October safety campaign and poster have been sent out by e mail over the weekend. Have you had yours? We hope so if not please let us know and we will send one out to you.
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04 October 2010
After heavy criticism during a public enquiry in Nov 2009 regarding an LPG explosion in a Glasgow plastics factory, the HSE is now gearing up to re inspect some 3,000 bulk LPG installations around the country. The inspections will be thorough and will be looking for a number of specific points regardin....
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20 September 2010
HSE Estates Excellence: This is a new scheme being rolled out by the HSE to check on the safety management systems in use by a particular organisation. If you should get a call from them and be "invited" to participate, please call us directly as......
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07 September 2010
CDM Regulations are back in the spotlight in some quarters, so if you are acting as a Principle Contractor on a notifiable task then you must ensure that you comply with the Regulations that are set out for the Principle Co.........
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27 August 2010
European safety week 2010 will focus on maintenance. the 2009 focus was risk assessment. HSE will start inspecting on this theme in October so be sure that all your maintenance.........................
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05 July 2010
A summary of the HSE Construction Division's plan of work for 2010/11 has been published. It will target the following sectors: Asbestos removal licence holders (inspection of licensed work), small sites refurbishment, home build and major projects. Five key issues will be considered at all site visits by the inspect.......
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(Good luck to all NEBOSH Unit A students sitting exams tommorrow especially the South Tyneside Tech [Hebburn campus] crew).
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16 June 2010
Workplace traffic plans, have you got yours in place yet? It is imperative that pedestrians on your premises have a safe place to walk separated from vehicles and plant that may be moving about. A company in Aylesbury has recently been fined £150,000.00 for not ensuer......
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03 June 2010
Asbestos Awareness: The HSE is continuing its asbestos campaign through 2010 and a number of the larger employers are insisting on refresher asbestos awareness courses for its sub contractors. We can conduct these courses for you at your workplace or at our training centre in N Shields. We also conduct courses for our railway customers with steam traction. We can also cover this with a toolbox talk if required. For more information get in touch.
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18 May 2010
An extra piece of good news and something that most of us already knew, that we had to share with you, posted by IOSH today: Caffeine 'cuts shift work mishaps'. Sense at last, off now to brew up. Full details on the IOSH website, thanks to all at IOSH for bringing a smile to our faces this morning.
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17 May 2010
Safe Systems of Work. We all know what these are but have we got them recorded? Recently we have had a case of a seemingly experienced employee who having become injured at work then put in a claim against his employer, citing the cause as, "I was never told how to do that". If that is claimed by an employee of yours h ...................
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