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.
What are Your HR/People Management Pain Points ?
Think about it…..what are your biggest frustrations and worries right now? Do you really have the Right People in the Right Jobs? Do you have the right Company Culture, including Positive Leadership & how is your reputation perceived locally? Do you waste hours of unnecessary time on people related admin? Do you have updated Company […]
Plan B – Implications for Employers

The Prime Minister has announced that England will move to ‘Plan B’ in response to the rapid rise of cases of the Omicron variant. Do office workers now need to work from home? Anyone who can work from home is being advised to do so from Monday 13 December. The Cabinet Office guidance says that anyone […]
Do you have access to competent Health & Safety advice?
Are you considering outsourcing your Health & Safety management? Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, it is an employer’s duty to ensure that a competent person has been appointed to meet health and safety duties. Unless you are a large company, the cost of employing a dedicated, in-house Health & […]
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 […]
New Petroleum Regulations
Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014 Are you aware that the legislation on storing petrol is changing? Although existing health and safety responsibilities will remain the same, the new Petroleum (Consolidation) Regulations 2014 will come into effect on 1 October 2014 and replace existing petrol storage legislation which will be withdrawn. Further information can be found here http://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/petroleum.htm
Good Samaritan Bill
Legislation is being introduced next year to protect “Good Samaritans” who are acting for “the common good”. The Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Bill has been developed to reassure first aiders and voluntary workers that they cannot be sued for accidents that happen when they are attending to those who need help or are in distress. There […]