Highly commended for a BSIF Safety Solution Award

We’re grateful to be Highly Commended for a BSiF Safety Solution Award (The Safety & Health Excellence Awards 2018) and to have been recognised for our innovative health and safety solutions. This acknowledgment makes our team want...

The Health and Safety Event 2018

Unfortunately, The Health and Safety Event is over. But we’re still on a high from the last three days, spent with the hundreds of industry specialists, clients and visitors we had the chance to meet. The exhibition itself was packed...

Getting the most out of health and safety software

WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH PAPER-BASED HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT? Today, many organisations continue to use six or seven different health and safety management systems, often combining paper-based management with software tools...

Safety management – a healthy return on investment

Have you ever added up the cost of accidents and occupational injuries to your business?  Or looked at the impact ‘near misses’ would have had if you had been less fortunate? If you haven’t, you could be in for a nasty surprise. While...

When will litigation privilege protect internal investigations? (Guest blog post)

AUTHORS: Andrew Litchfield, Clark Sargent, Christopher Richards We look at two recent cases considering the principles of litigation privilege and when it will apply to protect documents from inspection by an opponent or investigator...

Southalls at The Health and Safety Event in Birmingham

The Health and Safety Event fires up on the 10th of April at 9AM. The show will take place in the most prestigious exhibition centre in the West Midlands – Birmingham’s NEC. The Southalls team couldn’t miss this opportunity to meet our...

Builders Merchant jailed after lorry crane killed pensioner

The director of Buildland Ltd, one of the Midlands largest stockists of building, landscaping and bricks, has been jailed after a cycling pensioner was killed by a faulty crane in Solihull, West Midlands. Ella Murray, 70, died four...

Circular Saw injury lands £120k fine

On the 19th February 2018, Sheffield-based WK West, which trades as Westpack and supplies commercial packaging solutions and specialist technical tapes, was prosecuted and fined £120,000 after an inadequately trained employee suffered...