Ho-ho-ho, the holidays are here again! The year 2018 has been an extremely busy year for our team. We’ve run hundreds of audits, traveled thousands…

John Southall, BSc (Hons), MSc, DipOSH, CMIOSH, MCIEH Angela Southall, BSc (Hons), MSc, Dip2OSH, CMIOSH As you expand your responsibility, you must expand your vision.…

Christmas is the busiest time of the year for businesses in catering and hospitality. The profitability of this time of year can make or break…

Recreational use of alcohol and drugs is becoming more and more common place. In the context of work, this can impact upon employers through increased…

Are you unsure of where your responsibilities lie with regard to clearing snow and ice from your carpark, paths, yards, roadways and boundaries? Can you be…

Ruxley Manor Garden Centre likes to think big. Offering exciting seasonal events, engaging family activities and an ever-expanding product range, the Kent-based business have been…

The HSE has published their latest Health and Safety Statistics 2018, providing a revealing insight into present day challenges in the workplace. 30.7 million days were…

The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 lay down particular requirements for most aspects of the working environment. Regulation 7 deals specifically with the…

Health and Safety offences can bring your business to a standstill. When stricter sentencing guidelines came into force in 2016, manufacturing businesses paid penalties of…

In today’s digital era, many organisations still use paper-based systems and multiple spreadsheets to manage health and safety. From a business owner’s perspective, this sort…

Take a large retail premises spread over indoor and outdoor environments, trailing hoses, water features, seasonal display changes, unwieldy and heavy product lines combined with…

As builders merchants and garden centres who stock timber or timber products, the fireworks season can increase the risk of fires starting. You should take…

By necessity, builders merchants tend to be more savvy than most when it comes to health and safety practice - after all, the average merchant…

Builders merchants might be relieved that they are not being targeted specifically in HSE's published strategy for 2017/18 but there are still plenty of indications…

Southalls is a finalist in the Service Excellence category of the Midlands Family Business Awards, the UK’s only independent, not-for-profit annual Awards showcase for family…