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How Health and Safety and Work is Made to Look Stupid and 2 Practical Principles for Getting it Right

By ianpemberton | Published: 22/03/2012

Welcome to undercover health and safety clips where we use real examples of health safety and work  – good and bad – to highlight universal lessons helpful to us all.  My name is Ian Pemberton and I am managing Director of Human Focus – I am a health and safety specialist and I hope you [...]

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Skanska FS Thanks Contractors For Successful Live Running of Competent Contractor Service

By ianpemberton | Published: 13/03/2012

Skanska Facilities Services (FS) has recently achieved full operational status with the Competent Contractor system across many of its sites.  This is the culmination of considerable preparatory work by both Skanska FS and their contractors.    Charles Harrison says: “As the  Skanska FS coordinator of our contractor management system (Human Focus Competent Contractor) for Healthcare, MOD, [...]

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RoSPA Renews Accreditation of Human Focus Online Health & Safety Courses

By ianpemberton | Published: 24/02/2012

  The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has just completed an extensive technical review of Human Focus online health and safety courses and has renewed it’s coveted badge of approval.  This means that you can be assured that these courses: Remain of  a high technical standard providing you with peace of mind [...]

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New Video Player Improves Improves Your E-learning Experience

By ianpemberton | Published: 24/02/2012

We have now completed a significant upgrade to the training area of the Human Focus E-learning system.  Ian Pemberton, Human Focus Managing Director says, “we would like to thank all of the many customers who have provided us with helpful ideas and suggestions for improving the video player that is used for our online health [...]

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How Employees Are Set-up To Have Accidents At Work

By ianpemberton | Published: 24/02/2012

Welcome to undercover health and safety clips where we use real examples of where health and safety has gone wrong to highlight universal  lessons helpful to us all.   We begin a harbour where a car has fallen into the water, and,  a mobile crane has been brought in to lift it out.  Even before the car [...]

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FMA Health & Safety Group Seminar – April 25th, 2012

By ianpemberton | Published: 14/02/2012

The Facilities Management Association, Health & Safety Group, is holding its first seminar on April 25th, 2012.   Attendees will include health and safety specialists from many of the UK’s leading facilities management organisations.  The event  will have an  interactive “Hot Topics” session as well a a number of presentations covering Preventing Slips and Trips in [...]

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Skanska FS Receive Contractor Best Practice Recognition

By ianpemberton | Published: 11/02/2012
Errol Taylor (left) Managing Director of RoSPA presents Simon Shaw (right) of Skanska FS with Best Practice Recognition

Skanska Facilities Services have been recognised by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) as having made a significant contribution to setting best practice in the field of contractor health and safety management.   RoSPA said: “It is vital for contractors to be managed effectively by companies, and it can be a challenge for [...]

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New safety training on line tool makes it easy to decide who needs what training

By ianpemberton | Published: 14/06/2011

Does your organization struggle to file and collate employee training records – and then decide who is competent from a health and safety perspective?  The Human Focus safety training on line system now has an impressive new tool that can help ease this administrative nightmare and make deciding who needs what training a push of [...]

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Contractor health and safety compromised over asbestos safety training failures

By ianpemberton | Published: 06/06/2011

A recent prosecution of both a contractor and the principal highlights the thorny issue of health and safety competency assessments during contractor management.  Quarnmill Construction Ltd and one of their contractors, Wayne Priestley, were prosecuted in relation to the demolition of the former Allens Printers building in Derby in October 2009.   During the demolition work [...]

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