HSfB Site News - Health and Safety for Beginners

New Free HSE Downloads - statistics tracking, safety induction, noise, case law

2009-11-04T21:40:00.001Z

4 November 2009

New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Accident Chart by Jonsi (.xls) 158KB
  - Graphical 'ouch-o-meter' - only write in the blue area and don't do anything in columns J-P
- Accident Tracker by Hammer (.xls) 376KB
- Health and Safety Induction Part 1 by Safety (PowerPoint) 117KB
- Health and Safety Induction Part 2 by Safety (PowerPoint) 1.2MB
- Health and Safety Induction Part 3 by Safety (PowerPoint) 351KB
- Health and Safety Induction Part 4 by Safety (PowerPoint) 135KB
- Health and Safety Induction Part 5 by Safety (PowerPoint) 453KB
- Health and Safety Induction Part 6 by Safety (PowerPoint) 245KB
- Blank Noise Assessment Template by Nigel Bown (.doc) 178KB
- Case Law Slideshow by Berni Carey (PowerPoint) 321KB

New Articles Added by Leading Law Firm - McGrigors LLP

2009-10-17T15:28:00.001Z

17 October 2009

New articles added to Your Articles by McGrigors LLP.

New Free Downloads - Stats, First Aid, Awareness Handouts, Toolbox Talks

2009-10-11T12:41:00.001Z

11 October 2009

New downloads have been added to the PAUSE page by Anthony Groves.
- Complacency (.doc)
- Distraction (.doc)
- DUTCH (.doc)
- Hurry (.doc)
- Tiredness (.doc)
- Unfamiliarity (.doc)
- Safe Driver Pledge (.doc)
- COSHH Explanation (.doc)
- DPA Summary (.doc)
- Office Safety (.doc)
- Protect Your Hearing (.doc)
- Stroke Action (.doc)

New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Accident Injury Stats Template for 2007 by Safety (.xls)
- First Aid Risk Assessment Checklist by Lisa_ (.doc)
- Agenda First Meeting by HelenPJ (.doc)

Prize Draw 11 Winners Announced!

2009-09-10T19:01:00.001Z

Congratulations to our winners below!

Absolutely no catch, no fees, it's all FREE!

Check out our prize draw website here for more info - www.prizedraw.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

Julia Sterling wins the NEBOSH Construction Certificate distance learning package donated by Phoenix Health & Safety

Andrew, Bazza, Brian Walsh, Clair and Steven Hodgson all receive one of RRC's new Programmed to Pass online revision packages!

It could be you next month, sign up for our FREE newsletter - www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/newsletter.htm

New Free Downloads - Meetings, Contractors, Posters

2009-09-10T18:58:00.002Z

5 September 2009

New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Safetyphoto Meeting by Safetyphoto.co.uk (PowerPoint) 221KB
- Contractors Daily Progress Report by Stephen Love (.doc)
- Sketch Details by Stephen Love
- Poster6 - Safety Awareness - Stress Control (.doc)
- Poster7 - Safety Awareness - Car Driving (.doc)
- Poster8 - Safety Awareness - Chemicals (.doc)
- Poster9 - Safety Awareness - Electrical Equipment (.doc)
- Poster Car Driving (.doc)
- Poster Chemicals (.doc)
- Poster Electrical Equipment (.doc)
- Poster Fire Alarm Action (.doc)
- Poster Fire Action (.doc)
- Poster Manual Handling (.doc)
- Poster Mobile Phones (.doc)
- Poster Risk Assessment (.doc)
- Poster Slip Trip (.doc)
- Poster Stress (.doc)
- Poster VDU PC Use (.doc)

FREE from RRC - Health and Safety Law STEP Notes 2009 Edition

2009-08-23T20:14:00.000Z

23 August 2009

A great offer from RRC for our visitors:
The RRC Health and Safety Law STEP Notes are an invaluable reference to both Practitioners and Students. They are a concise guide to some of the key concepts with regard to health and safety law. They define some of the basic legal terms and provide a general guide to the key regulations and principles in health and safety.
To claim your free copy, simply e-mail ad@rrc.co.uk, with your name and delivery address.

Stocks are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis, only one copy per person.

If you are outside the UK there is a £5 charge for postage and packing.

Prize Draw 10 Winners Announced - £50 Amazon.co.uk Vouchers

2009-08-04T08:20:00.003Z

Congratulations to Carl Fox and HelenPJ!

Absolutely no catch, no fees, it's all FREE!

Check out our prize draw website here for more info - www.prizedraw.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

It could be you next month, sign up for our FREE newsletter - www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/newsletter.htm

Next month's prizes will be one NEBOSH National Construction Certificate distance learning programme donated by Phoenix Health & Safety and Five lucky winners will each receive one of RRC's new Programmed to Pass online revision packages!

New Page - Featured Services, Products, Special Offers, Discounts...

2009-08-01T19:17:00.002Z

As you may already know, everything on HSfB is provided to you for free, but sometimes there are various products and services from other organisations that we like and would like to make you aware of.

We are always looking for partnership opportunities with organisations where we can bring you some great bargains and discounts, so have a look on our new page and check back regularly, these offers appear from time to time and they don't last forever!

http://www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/Ads/Features.htm

Keep up-to-date with future discounted products and services in our monthly newsletter - Click here to sign up.

New Free Downloads - Safety Awareness Posters - VDU, Fire, Manual Hanlding

2009-07-28T19:36:00.000Z

28 July 2009

New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Poster3 - Safety Awareness - VDU Use (.doc)
- Poster4 - Safety Awareness - Manual Handling (.doc)
- Poster5 - Safety Awareness - Fire Evacuation (.doc)

New Free Downloads - Safety Awareness Materials

2009-07-26T21:27:00.001Z

26 July 2009

New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Card9 - Requesting Help from Others (.doc)
- Poster1 - Safety Awareness - Attitude (.doc)
- Poster2 - Safety Awareness - Slipping and Tripping (.doc)

New Free Downloads - NEBOSH Unit D, Manual Handling, Fire, Stress, Driving, Chemicals.

2009-07-23T20:09:00.001Z

23 July 2009

A new page has been added to the Downloads section - Diploma Unit D
New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- NEBOSH D Guide by Rochelle (.doc)
- Card4 - Manual Handling (.doc)
- Card5 - Fire (.doc)
- Card6 - Stress (.doc)
- Card7 - Car Driving (.doc)
- Card8 - Safe Use of Chemicals (.doc)

Prize Draw 9 - Winners Announced Have You Won?!

2009-07-12T21:40:00.001Z

All of these people have won!

Jane Gray, Brian Cleaver and Emma Tutill!

Absolutely no catch, no fees, it's all FREE!

Check out our prize draw website here for more info - www.prizedraw.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

It could be you next month, sign up for our FREE newsletter - www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/newsletter.htm

New downloads, new pages, loads more to come...

2009-07-11T19:46:00.002Z

11 July 2009

New pages have been added to the Downloads section - Terrorism and PAUSE
New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Working Away by SteveD (.doc)
- Risk Assessment and Matrix by Safety (.doc)
- Bomb Threat by Mick (.doc)
- Bomb Threat Policy by Siblo (.doc)
- Calendar (.xls)
- Safety Calendar (.doc)
- Card1 - Safety Policy and Attitude (.doc)
- Card2 - Slipping and Tripping (.doc)
- Card3 - VDU - PC Use (.doc)

New Downloads Added

2009-07-05T20:50:00.000Z

5 July 2009

New prize draw winners will be announced soon! Head over to our Prize Draw mini site to see if you have won - www.prizedraw.healthandsafetytips.co.uk
New toolbox talks have been added to the Toolbox Talks page.
- TBT Nuisance Dust by Andrew Burgess (.doc)
- TBT Nuisance Mud by Andrew Burgess (.doc)
- TBT Nuisance Noise by Andrew Burgess (.doc)
New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Working abroad checklist by Nick Higginson of Phoenix Health and Safety (.doc)

HSfB Prize Draw - How Can We Give Things Away for Free?

2009-06-28T21:43:00.002Z

I have often been asked how can we possibly give things away for free in our Prize Draw, so I thought I'd create this blog post to explain exactly how it works.

As a bit of background information on HSfB, if you have a spare five minutes, grab a cuppa and have a read of these pages which describes the story of HSfB from the beginning....

HSfB in the Beginning...

About Us

For those of you without five minutes, basically it all started with my own personal injury at work that started me asking the question of 'why was I allowed to be injured at work?' All I did on that Friday was go to work. My life shouldn't have changed that day, but it did. My passion for helping protect people at work from injury or ill-health began.

The prizes given away are quite literally products or services donated by organisations who share with our passion for protecting people at work. Of course there is the publicity side of things, but that's what sponsorship is all about. Sponsors donate, we give it away, you benefit and HSfB grows to help more people. Easy!

I know there are some sceptics out there who think I'm making a mint from this and that's OK. But, I work during the day at my day job as a H&S Advisor to pay the mortgage, feed the kids and the dog, and to just get on with things. HSfB does not earn millions of ££!

I just thought it important to at least give you an insight into how the draw works and why we do it. Sometimes things in life really are free. Granted it's very rare, but it's here at HSfB.

Please share this article on Twitter, Facebook, Stumblupon or anything else you use and help us to grow to help more and more people come home safely from work every single day.

Thanks for reading.

John (Jack Kane on the forums)

Draw 8 Redraw - NEBOSH NGC

2009-06-28T21:38:00.003Z

Another winner!

Emma Tutill has won the NEBOSH National General Certificate distance learning programme donated by -

Phoenix Health & Safety

There is absolutely no catch for these prizes, it's FREE to enter!

Check out our prize draw website here for more info - www.prizedraw.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

It could be you next month, sign up for our FREE newsletter - www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/newsletter.htm

Prize Draw 1 Update and Photos - Manual Handling Course

2009-06-17T19:23:00.008Z

The manual handling train the trainer course was the first prize drawn for the 2008/2009 draw we had in November 2008. The prize schedule shows the year plan, click HERE to see the schedule.

As there were six winners originally, it proved a bit of a challenge trying to get everybody together in one place at the same time. So we had to agree a date that suited the trainer and kind prize contributor, Paul Donaldson of Health Environment and Risk Training, the date also had to suit everybody else and their busy schedules. Not only that but we had delegates who travelled a great distance, so that was a consideration as well.

The venue was the Business Gateway units in Camperdown Street, City Quay, Dundee with some great views and breakout areas into the bargain (pics below).

This was all done via dozens of emails. Dates were agreed and changed several times, one or two people had to give up their prize for one reason or another with new winners drawn from the hat.

But! Many emails later and a bit of determination and patience, we all finally managed to get together on Monday 11 May 2009!

The course was brilliant to say the least. Paul's training technique was very relaxed, friendly, down-to-earth and a bit of good humour into the bargain. I would personally recommend Paul's services at the drop of a hat and from what I've heard, Paul's NEBOSH General Certificate course is definitely worth its weight in gold.

It was great to meet up with visitors to HSfB and put a name to the face. A really interesting bunch. Photo's of the venue and delegates below.

Overall, a great day full of laughs, discussions on running marathons (sorry, my bad!), oh and we managed to squeeze in some manual handling train the trainer training ;).

My personal thanks to Paul and everybody who made it along to make the day such a memorable and educational day.

From the left we have......

Ian Brown, Sandra Johnston, Bruce Stark, Ged Keane, Simon Severn, Paul Donaldson and me, John Johnston.

Some great views from the venue in Dundee, but I'm not sure why I took a picture of the coat hanger!

Prize Draw 8 - Winners Announced - Have You Won!

2009-06-08T20:17:00.002Z

All of these people have won!

Gareth Richards, Colin, Judith Hayes, Jim Walker, Tam Brown, Stephen Don and Jackie King!

Absolutely no catch, no fees, it's all FREE!

Check out our prize draw website here for more info - www.prizedraw.healthandsafetytips.co.uk

It could be you next month, sign up for our FREE newsletter - www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/newsletter.htm

HSfB Site News - 9 June 2009

2009-06-08T20:16:00.000Z

7 June 2009

New toolbox talks have been added to the Toolbox Talks page.
- TBT Confined Spaces by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Eye Protection by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Housekeeping by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Ladders by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Leptospirosis by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Manual Handling by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Overhead Lines by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Plant & Machinery by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Plant Movement & Machinery by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Pneumatic Tools by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Storage and Use of Fuels and Oils by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Suspension Trauma by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Waste Segregation by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Public Services Local H&S Policy by HelenPJ
- Work Equipment Risk Assessment by PaddyT
- Workplace Safety Inspection by PaddyT

FREE Prize Draw - Draw 8 this weekend, have you signed up yet?

2009-06-04T20:15:00.002Z

Next month's prizes will be Health and Safety 2008 (ebook) (x5) donated by Andy Brazier of Simple Sensible Safety and a NEBOSH National General Certificate distance learning programme donated by Phoenix Health & Safety!

Sign up for our free newsletter for free entry to win these prizes!

Full details on our prize draw mini website. Click here to access it - http://www.prizedraw.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/

Good luck!

HSfB Site News - 4 June 2009

2009-06-04T20:14:00.001Z

4 June 2009

New articles added to Your Articles
- Your Guide to Smoke Detectors and Fire Alarms by Assured Fire Safety & Security Systems
- Our guide to health and safety in the kitchen by Matthew Crick
A new page has been added to the Downloads section - Environmental
New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Environmental Audit by Dave Hood
- Example Environmental questionnaire by Dave Hood

HSfB Site News - 10 May 2009

2009-05-10T16:08:00.002Z

New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.

Swine Flue by Nigel Bown (PowerPoint)
Blank Generic DSE Checklist by Nigel Bown

HSfB Site News - 9 May 2005

2009-05-09T19:15:00.001Z

8 May 2009

New article added to Your Articles
- Common causes of an office fire by Matthew Crick

HSfB Site News - 12 April 2009

2009-04-12T15:23:00.001Z

12 April 2009

New toolbox talks have been added to the Toolbox Talks page.
- TBT Dumper by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Existing Services by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT MEWPS by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Safety in Excavations by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Silt Pollution by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Site Security by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Spill Control by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Walkways Routes by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Washing Out Plant by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Working in Public by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- MEWP T Handler Daily Insp by Andrew Burgess (.doc)
- MEWP T Handler Daily Insp by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- Minor Works MSRA by Andrew Burgess (.doc)
- Minor Works MSRA by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- Steps/Ladder Risk Assessment by Andrew Burgess (.doc)
- Steps/Ladder Risk Assessment by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- Exc Roller Dumper Daily Insp by Andrew Burgess (.doc)
- Exc Roller Dumper Daily Insp by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)

HSfB Site News - 11 April 2009

2009-04-11T19:50:00.001Z

11 April 2009

New toolbox talks have been added to the Toolbox Talks page.
- TBT Harnesses by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
- TBT Mobile Aluminium Towers by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)
New downloads have been added to the Downloads pages.
- Hot Works Permit by Andrew Burgess (pdf)
- Permit to Work by Andrew Burgess (pdf)
- Scaff Tower Defect Tag by Andrew Burgess (.pdf)