Latest news on the Amicus health and safety news website - click the link after each story for the full text
Scottish Hazards Conference, 16 November, Glasgow – this Thursday
The Conference will bring together trade union activists, occupational health and safety professionals and others involved in workplace health to learn, share experience and expertise and debate the way forward for improved health and safety throughout Scotland.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=5025
Reminder - Stress Network Conference, 18 November, Birmingham – this Saturday
The annual Stress Network Conference is on the subject of Managing Sickness Absence and will be held at NASUWT Conference Centre, Rednal, near Birmingham on Saturday 18th November.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=3789
Amicus secures £100,000 compensation for member following horrific accident at work
Amicus has secured £100,000 in compensation from Langley Holdings Plc for a Lincoln member who suffered a serious injury to his left hand including the loss of his left middle finger in an horrific accident at work. The compensation was secured by Amicus’ free legal help scheme via leading personal injury specialists Thompsons Solicitors.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=5022
New Asbestos Regulations in force
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 came into force on 13 November 2006. These Regulations bring together the three previous sets of Regulations covering the prohibition of asbestos, the control of asbestos at work and asbestos licensing. The Regulations prohibit the importation, supply and use of all forms of asbestos. They continue the ban introduced for blue and brown asbestos 1985 and for white asbestos in 1999. They also continue the ban the second-hand use of asbestos products such as asbestos cement sheets and asbestos boards and tiles; including panels which have been covered with paint or textured plaster containing asbestos.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=5014
New safety course and qualification for young people
A new qualification designed to improve young people’s understanding of safe working when taking part in work experience has been devised by the (HSE in partnership with the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), British Safety Council Awards (BSC Awards) and ENTO.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=5011
Young people at work - new HSE website
Young people, especially those new to the workplace, will encounter unfamiliar risks from the jobs they will be doing and from the working environment. Following last month's European Safety Week theme of young people's safety at work, the HSE has launched a new website dealing with key issues to take into account when assessing the risks to young people at work.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=4963
Advice on setting up a team to manage stress at work
The aim of this document is to discuss the formation and operation of a ‘Steering Group’ in relation to the HSE Management Standards on Work-related Stress (Management Standards). The primary function of a Steering Group is to oversee and facilitate the Management Standards project, effectively acting as a project management group or board. (opens as a PDF document)
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=5010
Reducing slip and trip accidents in the Health Services
HSE advice for Inspectors to assist them in helping the health industry tackle slips and trips.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=4965
New dermatitis leaflet from HSE-BSIF for promoting improved skin care at work
Joint HSE/BSIF leaflet to promote improved skin care in industrial and commercial organisations within at-risk sectors, such as hairdressing, catering, construction (particularly bricklayers and floor and wall tilers), cleaning and dentistry.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=4964
HSE reductions in health and safety enforcement and prosecutions slammed by Amicus
The latest statistics from the Health and Safety Executive show that enforcement notices and prosecutions have now fallen for the last three years.
www.amicustheunion.org/default.aspx?page=4956
The TV may be HD ready but is your back?
More care than ever must be taken when handling, lifting or moving televisions, whether they are being purchased, moved or serviced. As well as more general advice on using lifting and handling aids, the HSE has published some guidance on musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) risks from manual handling of tv sets, which describes some handling aids that are available.
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