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This revolutionary system will:

• Enable you to make simple changes AFTER training which will lead to a quantum improvement in behavioral change

• Provides cutting edge tools and techniques that finally enable you to ensure that the training you invested so much in actually leads to change in the way your employees work

• Provides a new innovation that aligns the interests of line managers with yours – giving them a fresh motivation to support, encourage and enforce your training

The Human Focus stand at the Safety & Health Expo, NEC, Birmingham, May 2013 where “E-Training” was first launched

If you would like more information about this E-Training system, including details about how you can trial the system via a free no-obligation pilot then contact Human Focus – Email – , Telephone +44 (0)1737 647872

Taking place between Tuesday 14^th – Thursday 16^th May 2013 at the NEC in Birmingham, the show is committed to finding innovations from across the sector and assisting you, the health and safety expert, obtain the information you need to guarantee the highest levels of health and safety in your workplaces.

It is the most established Exhibition of health and safety in Europe attracting around 7,951 visitors each year.

Come and see us at stand B60.

To find out more or to register as a visitor, go to the Safety & Health Expo homepage – click here

The Human Focus E-learning version of these two courses provide an ideal option for busy managers and supervisors who wish to maintain this qualification and who may find attending the classroom version difficult.

For more information on this course and the price, please email 

The first reminder email will be sent three days before expiry of insurance. The system will then send another reminder, three days after this first email and then a further one seven days after the very first email, if the documents have not been updated. This facility will help clients to check and ensure documents supplied by their contractors are current. The facility also serves as a reminder for contractors to provide documents that show that they are complying to safe standards at work. This facility is now live.

Please email  for any queries.

The Human Focus E-learning version is an ideal option for busy managers and supervisors who wish to gain this qualification and who may find attending the 4-day classroom version difficult.   Trainees can take the course at their own pace and in bite size sessions that suit their schedule.

The IOSH Managing Safely course is comprised of 8 theory modules with an end exam followed by the completion of a practical risk assessment exercise conducted in the trainee’s own workplace.  As with all Human Focus courses, the theory modules are delivered via interactive video sessions.   However in a new development, there is now for this course a tutor on hand (via email and phone) to provide support and deal with trainee queries.

The course is aimed at all line managers and is very practical.   The content contains thought-provoking facts and memorable case studies.   The aim is to provide practical risk management skills and knowledge that can then be applied by the trainee in their day-to-day operations.

For more information and costs please contact Paul Hardwicke –

“Displaying our health and safety qualifications on our website, such as Competent Contractor, helps our relationships with our customers. It demonstrates to new and existing customers what we have achieved. It also helps to generate new leads for our company as it shows potential clients how serious we are about health and safety and our business.”

This is not hard to understand as large facilities management companies and client organisations are increasingly choosing to work with contractors and suppliers who can demonstrate the highest standards of health and safety – it has become a key purchasing criteria. Competent Contractor is particularly helpful in this respect as it uniquely enables contractors to easily prove the skills of each of their employees – all training records are held online and can be shared at the press of a button.

If you are enrolled in the online health & safety training programme Competent Contractor, you are free to display this achievement on your website. To make this a simple task and to help promote your business Human Focus can supply an electronic copy of the logo with a link to further information about what you have achieved. For further information contact 

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Camfil Farr are a contractor who work for Skanska Facilities Services. They manufacture and install clean air solutions. Camfil Farr have been enrolled in the Competent Contractor system for 3 years. Over this period they have demonstrated significant improvements in their health and safety training. They choose to use the Human Focus E-learning system to help achieve these improvements. Here is their account of this journey…

Brian Haslam, Quality, Environmental And Energy Manager:

“We think it’s an excellent tool for keeping health and focus at the forefront of people’s minds and the way that we use it we actually don’t want people to complete the training. And that way we get them to complete one or two modules a month – that’s the idea. And in that way they’re always thinking about health and safety as it’s always being brought to their attention.

Again, with the question and answer between each module – adds credence to it. It’s raised the profile of health and safety within the company. Its also enabled us to demonstrate to our customers that they are training – that we are training our people on health and safety because we can provide certificates at the end of the training, we can provide samples of that.”

The Human Focus system has a huge library of training courses – how have you used this?

“We’ve picked particular training to pick particular environments. So our office staff have a selection of about ten modules, health and safety in offices, fire in offices, manual handling in offices and the beauty of it is, is it also gives us the opportunity to be specific for the people on the shop floor or the warehouse – particularly with something like manual handling. So the training is aimed at them and it’s not just a generic video.”

What are your views on the administration module for training records?

“I’m constantly going into those training records to see what people have done etc, and again to provide confirmation to customers. Rather than sending them 12 certificates you can send them a page dump from the training and say ‘this is the training that they’ve had’. It’s nice and it’s current and again it makes it meaningful.”

Has the system been easy to use?

“Yes, yes – even our more techno-phob’ employees have had no trouble using it. We have a number of immigrant workers and our language in the business is English, so they take the training and we’ve found that its not been a problem.”

Would you recommend the Human Focus E-learning system to other contractors?

“Absolutely, in fact I’ve done so to a number of people. I think it’s excellent value for money, I think it’s excellent training to keep health and safety at the forefront. I would not hesitate to recommend. It’s value for money, it’s really good training, it’s short bites, rather than sitting in a class room environment for half a day, it’s 20 minutes, it’s meaningful – and your attention span is no longer than that [20 minutes] anyway so it’s perfect for that.”

Human Focus have produced two new video training programmes which reconstruct two health and safety court cases. These online courses are a must see for all managers and directors in particular. They are based on real cases and highlight the legal consequences that individual managers and directors face for health and safety breaches.

The first programme is a reconstruction of a case that provides an introduction to criminal health and safety legislation. The case features an employer being accused of failure to carry out their duty of providing health and safety training so far as is reasonably practicable for an employee working at height. A director is found guilty of negligence and sentenced to a prison term. The programme takes you step-by-step through the trial process, from the indictment, the prosecutions opening statement, and witness examination to the verdict and sentencing.

The second court case reconstruction features a civil liability claim against an employer, made by an employee. The liability claim is the result of a back injury sustained while at work, with the employer accused of being responsible for this injury; as they did not provide manual handling training among other failures of health and safety management.

This second programme takes you through the trial process for a liability claim including the claimant’s case, defendant’s case and the judge’s judgement and the calculation of damages incurred.

For more information and to watch the Introduction to Criminal Health and Safety Legislation and the Introduction to Civil Health and Safety Legislation then please contact 

Watkin Jones & Son Ltd, a principal contractor in the building of a shopping centre in North Wales has been fined £545,000 following the death of one of their contractors. The individual was working for a sub-contractor undertaking roof work when he fell 6 metres through an unguarded opening. The worker died on the 17 December 2009 after spending several months in hospital following the accident.

Following the prosecution HSE inspector Chris Wilcox said “Falls from height are an alarmingly common cause of death and serious injury.  This tragic case should remind all contractors that work at height must be managed effectively and adequate safeguards should be in place to prevent falls.”

In mitigation, the Watkin Jones & Son Ltd stated that it takes health and safety very seriously but accepted that failings occurred onsite in relation to this incident.

This is not to single out one company, such as Watkin Jones & Son Ltd.  Sadly, this type of tragic occurrence can affect all companies.

It is essential that all contractor employees have the correct health and safety training for the tasks they perform on site. A lack of expertise in both the management and the execution of jobs is a common root cause in contractor accidents.