Newsletter – April 2012

Welcome to the April 2012 edition of the Darlington Consulting Newsletter. Please click on the link below to access the newsletter. (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

This month, the following topics are covered in the newsletter;

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• Construction firm fined €40,000 after serious burn injuries
• N.I. Joinery company fined £2,000
• Statistics and Deaths building the Titanic
• UK Cleaning firm fined over porter’s death
• Two incidents at Tesco in Leicester
• Austria – Two workers cooked to death in furnace
• ILO World Day for Safety and Health at Work – 28 April 2012
• Hotel marketing manager awarded €315,000 for victimisation when pregnant
• Polish woman awarded €10,500 by Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Newsletter – April 2012

Newsletter – February 2012

Welcome to the February 2012 edition of the Darlington Consulting Newsletter. Please click on the link below to access the newsletter. (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

This month, the following topics are covered in the newsletter;

• New Address – New Beginning
• HSA Programme of Work 2012
• Recent HSA Publications
• Skip Hire Company and Director fined for safety breaches
• Fire Rules breached at over 300 homes for the Elderly
• Northern Ireland Civil Servants’ stress sickness levels soar
• UK Scientist who faced ‘barrage of shouting’ awarded £30,000
• Obesity: bad for the bottom line?
• Family issues and work-life balance
• Apple launches factory inspections amid safety fears

Newsletter – February 2012

Newsletter – January 2012

Welcome to the January 2012 edition of the Darlington Consulting Newsletter. Please click on the link below to access the newsletter. (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

This month, the following topics are covered in the newsletter;

• Safety Leadership – thoughts for 2012
• Planning for Health and Safety in 2012
• Fatalities in 2011
• I’m the lucky one – Farm Campaign
• Child Safety Wallchart
• UK Medics accused of putting health and safety before saving lives
• Bosses are the biggest H&S rule-breakers
• UK Company director fined £80,000 over worker’s death
• VW gives workers a rest from Blackberry messages
• Driver awarded €25,000 for ageism

Newsletter – January 2012

Safety Leadership – thoughts for 2012

Newsletter December 2011

Welcome to the December 2011 edition of the Darlington Consulting Newsletter. Please click on the link below to access the newsletter. (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

This month, the following topics are covered in the newsletter;

• Christmas Safety Tips
• Winter Ready Website
• Reporting Sharps Injuries
• Ryanair worker gets €45,000 after injury
• Wicklow Fire deaths trial moved over jury concerns
• “Reclaiming health and safety for all”: Report by Professor Ragnar E Löfstedt
• Firms in court over Liverpool highways worker’s fatal fall
• Temporary Agency Work Directive
• Under-24s won’t work for firms where social media is banned

Newsletter December 2011

Welcome to the November 2011 edition of the Darlington Consulting Newsletter. Please click on the link below to access the newsletter. (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

This month, the following topics are covered in the newsletter;

• Construction Firm fined €30,000 for safety failures at road works
• Operator awarded €94,600 after glass pierces safety boots
• N.I. Company & Architect fined over death
• HSE UK to charge £133/hour for inspectors’ time
• Stress now tops sickness absence chart
• Olympics build ‘exemplary’ on health and safety
• Speaking about Leadership…
• Mental health promotion in the workplace – a good practice report – European Safety Agency
• Blackberry outage saves lives

Newsletter November 2011

Newsletter October 2011

Welcome to the October 2011 edition of the Darlington Consulting Newsletter. Please click on the link below to access the newsletter. (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

This month, the following topics are covered in the newsletter;

• Coaching for health and safety excellence
• HSA Information Sheet on Intoxicants at Work is published
• IOSH Ireland – Healthcare Section
• Fatalities so far this year
• UK Firm fined £100,000 after worker crushed to death in machine
• CIPD/Simplyhealth Absence Survey
• European Week for Safety & Health – 24th to 28th October 2011
• Ex-envoy to Turkey refused to act on bullying, court told
• Connacht Gold Co-Operative to pay out after sacking and discrimination
• DCU plans to make its students model graduates

Newsletter October 2011

Well-Being at Work – key steps to take

With redundancies, layoffs and downsizing all over the place, there are situations where those left in organisations are expected to do the work of those let go with real work well-being consequences. Owners and employers need to manage workloads, time, priorities and goals effectively while not sacrificing their employees.  In this paper I present some key steps employers can take to create workplace well-being.

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Top 10 Health & Safety Tips

Welcome to my Top 10 Health & Safety Tips.  These Tips are not designed to represent a full legal interpretation of Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and associated regulations.  Each employer will need to take independent, competent advice to ensure that they comply.

Please right click on the link above to access Top 10 Health and Safety Tips.  (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

In my Top 10 Health and Safety Tips I offer the following advice:

1. Show real safety leadership
2. Get good advice
3. Do your risk assessments
4. Communicate and consult
5. Train your managers and your staff
6. Tidy up the place
7. Look closely at how goods are moved
8. Protect the physical safety of your staff
9. Protect the health and mental health of your staff
10. Investigate all near misses and accidents constructively

Newsletter September 2011

Welcome to the September 2011 edition of the Darlington Consulting Newsletter. Please click on the link below to access the newsletter. (Please note that you will need Adobe Reader to view this document).

This month, the following topics are covered in the newsletter;

• Do you know someone looking for a job?
• Kick from spooked horse led to fatality
• Farming safety
• N.I. worker left brain damaged after forklift truck accident
• Fire occurs at Glasgow fire station
• Lack of support for pregnant workers

Newsletter September 2011