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

    Welcome to undercover health and safety clips where we use real examples of health safety and work