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Book a free consultation Call us today Contact us todayTooles Transport, a haulage and storage company in Worcestershire, must pay more than £400,000 in fines and costs after a banksman was crushed to death. Kevin Scott, 60, was assisting a lorry driver with a blind side reversing...
001. What is IOSH? IOSH is the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. A registered British charity and the world’s leading health and safety membership organisation for health and safety professionals in over 130 countries...
00As a Health & Safety Manager you know it makes sense to invest in safety, but how do you persuade the board to spend time and effort investing in it? With a firm focus on the bottom line, the board will take a hard-headed look at...
00Today, Southalls has been shortlisted for The Lloyds Bank Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year for the 2018 Lloyds Bank National Business Awards. The awards, now in their 17th year, have a long-standing history of celebrating the...
00We have had the pleasure of knowing Hayley for many years, finding her to be a wealth of knowledge in terms of H&S criminal law. As a specialist H&S criminal law practitioner she has 15 years of experience in defending large...
00There is a plethora of health and safety legislation accessible in the public domain but finding the legislation that is relevant to your business, then narrowing down the correct section, sub-section and cross referencing to the...
00“Who is your hero?” Mmmm… answers may vary from film fantasy superhero figures to olympic champion athletes to famous leaders through history. We need heroes in our lives, and we look to them for inspiration. Health and safety...
00When East Anglia-based builders’ merchant Kent Blaxill were hit with a weighty fine for failing to ensure adequate separation of vehicles and pedestrians at its Colchester branch, the team got serious about safety. They looked to...
00I well remember the concept of charging for an HSE inspector’s time, when a material breach of the Health and Safety at Work Act or associated Regulations occurred, during my latter years as Chief Executive of the Institution of...
00On 27 June 2018, Palmer Timber Ltd was fined £730,000 after the driver of a sideloader forklift truck hit two workers crossing its timber yard in Cradley Heath in the West Midlands. The two employees were walking across the yard on 23...
00With temperatures finally on the up, it is important to be aware of the impact that the summer weather may have on your workplace and make changes to working practices accordingly. Without taking necessary precautions and changing the...
00On the 6th June 2018, George Jones, the owner of a scrap metal business in Pembrokeshire was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison after a worker nearly died from an electric shock. On 12th March 2014, George Jones instructed an employee to...
00Steel stockholders and distributors John Tainton had worked hard to build a solid safety track record across their UK and Ireland operations. So when an incident prompted a visit from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), they...
00With ambitious plans to expand their family of casually classic French restaurants, Bistrot Pierre needed a scalable safety solution that could hold its own across 21 thriving outlets. Southalls’ frontline EHO expertise guided the...
00Companies are defined by their reputations. It can take years to build your brand and only minutes for it to come crashing down. Although hard to put a monetary value on it, reputation is a company’s most precious commodity and...
00Before joining Southalls, I spent many years as a health and safety inspector investigating a range of health and safety incidents. Sadly, some of these accidents resulted in fatalities or serious life-changing injuries. I quickly...
00When it comes to ‘selling’ safety and gaining ‘buy in’, it is often the shop floor workers who may be resistant. The seasoned workers who don’t like change, the newbies who think they know best, the pessimist who thinks safety is...
00We’re one of the UK’s fastest-growing Health and Safety consultancies, offering market-leading safety management software, exceptional staff and client retention – and game-changing career opportunities. The role Due to business...
00Furniture maker, Andrena Furniture, in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire has been fined £8,000 and also ordered to pay costs of £1,080 after its employees were exposed to significant quantities of hardwood dust. The Health and Safety Executive...
00Saving time and money is imperative when you are operating in a competitive market. But it is not at all easy to combine cost-cutting with good health and safety practice. After all, overlook key health and safety requirements and you...
00As a senior executive, you define the safety culture of your organisation – from managing risk and complying with Health and Safety Executive (HSE) regulations to keeping your staff safe. With companies facing stiffer penalties for...
00ACO Technologies’ state-of-the-art surface water management systems make travel safer for car, air and rail passengers across the globe. We helped them build an equally innovative safety solution for their own team that realised cost...
00The Health and Safety Event, N.E.C, Birmingham, 10-12th of April 2018. Find out more about the show here....
Testing is a tricky business, not only the meticulous procedures this essential activity can require, but also the potential business burden it creates if unnecessary tests are carried out. Testing may be carried out for regulatory...
00The manufacturing sector is made up of a range of diverse industries with an estimated 3m workers. The development of new and advanced manufacturing methods, such as collaborative robots, 3D printing, and greater automation, provide...
00We’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...
00Let’s start with The Safety and Health Excellence Awards We’re so grateful to be Highly Commended for a ‘BSiF Safety Solution Award, and to have been recognised for our innovative health and safety solutions. This acknowledgment...
00WHAT’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...
00Have 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...
10AUTHORS: 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...
00The 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...
10The 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...
00On 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...
00Every day, thousands of lives are lost due to work accidents or fatal diseases connected to work activities. Latest estimates from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) show that, each day, more than 7,600 people die as a result...
00Llanharan Concrete Co. Limited, a building supplies company, has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £1,889 after an employee lost his finger using a table saw. The employee was cutting wood with a table saw when his glove...
00Southalls are conscious that merchants often struggle to release their managers and core people for multiple days. Therefore, Southalls have used their knowledge of the merchant sector to devise a course which focuses on the key...
00The shortlist has been announced for the inaugural Safety & Health Excellence (SHE) Awards 2018. We’re delighted to be shortlisted in the BSIF Safety Solution category. An esteemed panel of key industry figures whittled down...
00As business booms for online retailers, warehousing and distribution health and safety has never played a more pivotal role in...
The daily safety demands of the metal industry can make or break businesses. We’ve transformed health and safety for companies across...
With workers taking on high-risk activities every day, manufacturers of construction products need complete confidence in their health...
Faced with the challenges of warehouse logistics, materials handling and vehicle operation, health and safety compliance for builders...
Howdens, UK’s largest manufacturer and supplier of fitted kitchens with over 650 UK depots, was fined £1.2m in November 2017 for crushing a delivery driver to death. Carlisle Crown Court heard that a forklift truck was being used to...
00As many merchants showed solid growth and impressive expansion through 2017 with the addition of new branches, continued success is dependent on forward thinking and forward planning. With the thought of growing turnover and...
00In 2012 / 13, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents reported that 1.8 million people suffered from a work-related illness, with over 640,000 workplace injuries and 27 million working days lost due to work-related ill health...
00After a fine of nearly £2 million in Summer 2016 (reduced on appeal by 25%) as a result of 2 workers suffering severe hand injuries, Steel producer Tata Steel has again been subject to the full force of the HSE. The courts heard how,...
10With workers taking on high-risk activities every day, manufacturers need complete confidence in their health and safety programme. Here are our top 10 health and safety tips, you NEED TO KNOW about: 1. Focus on preventable health and...
01Builders 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 that they will remain under the health and safety spotlight in...
00Safety Cloud health and safety software automates every element of H&S management, placing key data, documents and reporting tools...
Saving time and money is imperative when you are operating in a competitive, builders merchants market. But it is not at all easy to combine cost-cutting with good health and safety practice. After all, overlook key health and safety...
00In 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 of approach can breed a variety of problems that impact on...
00In the past few years, the UK steel industry has been prone to making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The 2015/16 industry crisis was played out against a backdrop of serious accidents with high-profile court cases and fines to...
00Health and safety management is an integral part of the everyday process of running an organisation, especially, when it comes to workplace behaviours and attitudes. A robust health and safety management system would not only enable...
00It is the moment every employer in the manufacturing industry dreads – a manager reports that racking has collapsed, a forklift has overturned or that there has been a fall in the loading area and a worker has been seriously injured....
00Director of Southalls, John Southall, and Gowling WLG Partner, Andrew Litchfield, discuss the impact the health and safety sentencing...
By necessity, builders merchants tend to be more savvy than most when it comes to health and safety practice – after all, the average merchant will be inspected typically every 2 years by an Environmental health Officer and left...
00Health and safety may not be a favourite topic of conversation in a builders merchants sector. Once a negative perception of health and safety becomes embedded among your workforce, it is not easy to shake it off. But amid a climate of...
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