Workplace Compliance: Key Health & Safety Duties for Employers

As an employer, you have a legal and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety, and wellbeing of your employees. Workplace compliance isn’t just about ticking boxes, it’s about creating a culture where people feel safe, supported, and confident that their wellbeing matters. This blog outlines the top essential duties every employer should know when […]

Understanding the UK’s New ‘Simpler Recycling’ Legislation: What It Means for You

As of March 31, 2025, England has introduced the Simpler Recycling legislation, a major reform designed to standardise how waste is separated and collected across businesses and public sector organisations. This initiative aims to reduce confusion, increase recycling rates, and improve environmental outcomes. Key Implementation Date March 31, 2025: All businesses and non-domestic premises in […]

The Importance of Accident Investigation: A Health and Safety Advisor’s Perspective

As a health and safety advisor, one of the most critical responsibilities we have is ensuring that workplaces are safe for all employees. Despite our best efforts to implement preventive measures, accidents can still occur. When they do, accident investigation becomes a vital tool—not just for understanding what went wrong but also for preventing future incidents.

In this blog, we’ll share why accident investigation is crucial from a health and safety advisor’s perspective and how it can significantly enhance workplace safety.

Work-Related Accidents During The Period Of 2022/2023

The statistics are upsetting. In the UK, 135 workers were killed in work-related accidents during the period of 2022/23. (RIDDOR) The Construction and agriculture were one of the sectors with the highest number of fatalities. With falls from height, being struck by a moving object, and being struck by a moving vehicle the most common […]

Preventing Work-Related Stress in Construction

Did you know? Stress, depression and anxiety are the second biggest cause of work-related ill health in the construction industry. The earlier this problem is tackled, the less impact it will have on workers and business. Taking positive action can help to create a more engaged workforce, boost productivity and save money. Is your job […]

Draft Building Safety Bill

This month we have a guest article by Chris McGrath providing an overview of the Draft Building Safety Bill that will aim to improve building and fire safety, so that people will be, and will feel, safer in their homes. Why this Bill? On 14th June 2017 a fire broke out at the Grenfell Tower, a 24 […]

Why do I need a Vehicle Banksman?

Do you have a vehicle Banksman? Most companies have traffic moving on their sites every day.  For some this will be only a few vehicles, for others it will involve constant traffic movement. Nearly a quarter of all deaths involving vehicles at work occur when the vehicle is reversing. Yet many companies have little or […]

Put a spring in your step

There can be no question that safety boots are an essential part of PPE which no engineer, or anyone working on a building site or refurbishment project should be without. However, what is open to question is the level of protection your feet need and whether in fact the sheer amount and range of safety […]

Introducing the New Sub Contractor Pack

Due to the popularity of our online Health & Safety Management System Craven Safety Services now have available the Sub Contractor Management Pack. This pack easily generates and edits custom PQQs. Sub contractors will get an individual login to complete the questionnaire, all responses and evidence are stored online for instant access anywhere, the system […]

CSCS Smart Cards for Construction

IOSH and the Construction Skills Certification Scheme’s (CSCS) new agreement will hopefully make it easier for workers to gain access to construction sites, as problems have been arising for companies that insist that everyone accessing their sites must carry a CSCS card. Individuals have been denied access as they do not have a card, even when they are not directly […]