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You may have noticed our Company name change including our new logo!

 

We would like to assure you that there has been no change in management, ownership or in the range of services we offer.

 

Our address and contact details remain the same.

 

Many thanks,

 

Paul, Michelle and Sean

On Monday the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched its Summer campaign focusing on the respiratory risks to constructions workers from exposure to silica and wood dust. The initiative supports the Dust Kills Campaign

 

The campaign will focus on the respiratory risks from exposure to dust. Each year in the construction industry, there are thousands of preventable cases of irreversible lung disease due to past exposure to dust at work. These diseases often have a life-changing impact and can result in an early death.

 

Use HSE Fact Sheet Construction Dust Information Sheet CIS36 to plan your work, stop dust getting into the air and use the right controls.

World Cancer Day

4th February 2023

Saturday 4 February marks World Cancer Day.  This international awareness day is aimed to help educate and work together to reduce preventable cancer deaths.

 

It is estimated, each year, that 12,000 people die from work-related lung diseases linked to exposure during their working lives, including asthma, COPD and lung cancer.

 

If you work with certain dusts, gases, fumes and vapours in the workplace, it is important that you understand the risks and protect workers’ health by using effective control measures. Employers have a legal responsibility to protect their workers from ill health.

January 2023

 

HSE campaigns over recent months have intensified within certain industries and enforcements relating to COSHH legislation are beginning to increase as a result. 

 

Ensure your LEV systems have been thoroughly examined and tested by a competent person.

 

Contact us today 01457 766 304 or drop us an email

November is Lung Cancer Awareness month.  

 

This campaign encourages people displaying common symptoms of lung cancer i.e. a persistent cough, breathlessness or unexplained weight loss to contact their GP.

 

Certain work activities including exposure to welding fume, dust, and respirable crystalline silica (RCS) can cause lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases.  Often, this can be due to being exposed to a substance many years before.  

 

Employers are obliged by law to control the risks to their employees to exposure to hazardous substances such as work-related lung disease risks and implement controls to protect their employees.  This could include carrying out face-fit testing on workers that may need to wear filtering types of respiratory protective equipment (RPE) or bringing in a specialist, such as ourselves, to design and maintain suitable engineering control measures to provide better containment such as an Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) system. 

 

By protecting your workers effectively now, you can prevent them from suffering from severe, often incurable, lung-related health problems in the future.

Remember by Law, all LEV systems should be examined and tested at least every 14 months to ensure they are working satisfactory.

 

 

The HSE are continuing their campaigns within the Wood and Metal working industries to ensure Employers are fulfilling their Health and Safety obligations under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations 2002.

 

 

Is your business compliant?  

 

Do your extraction systems have a current LEV TExT?

 

 

Today is World Asthma Day

 

The risk of life-threatening occupational lung disease is higher for some types of work.  Exposure to certain dusts, gases, fumes and vapours in the workplace can cause irreversible lung damage if the risks are not effectively managed and controlled.

 

HSE's website has guidance and advice to help employers fulfil their legal duty to protect workers health and prevent work-related lung disease

 

Please contact us if we can assist in helping protect your employees with a bespoke LEV (Local Extract Ventilation) System or to provide you with an LEV TExT (Thorough Examination and Test) of your current system to ensure your compliance with the Law.

 

 

HSE is continuing to inspect woodworking businesses on a year long inspection period to ensure dutyholders know the established health risks associated with woodworking, including wood dust, and have effective controls in place to keep workers safe and protect their respiratory health.  All businesses should review the refreshed HSE guidance and ensure the risks are being managed.

 

HSEs Woodworking Guidance

 

Employers legal duties:

 

Employers are obliged by law to protect their workers by using:

 

  • Alternative processes
  • Less hazardous materials
  • Enclosures/effective ventilation
  • Protective equipment - as a last resort!


The important thing is to keep workplace air clean

 

Please contact us if we can assist in helping protect your employees with a bespoke LEV (Local Extract Ventilation) System or to provide you with an LEV TExT (Thorough Examination and Test) of your current system to ensure your compliance with the Law.

20th February 2020

Welding inspections ongoing...

This week HSE are reminding employers that they must protect their workers’ health by controlling the risks from welding fume

They have released some guidance to help employers and employees with the ongoing inspections. This includes links to advice on what to expect from an inspector's visit, the HSE’s revised guidance on welding fume as well as COSHH advice sheets to help you control the risk from hazardous substances in welding.

HSE Safety Alert – February 2019

 

Change in Enforcement Expectations for Mild Steel Welding Fume

 

HSE have released a safety alert following new scientific evidence that exposure to all welding fume, including mild steel welding fume can cause lung cancer.  There is also limited evidence linked to kidney cancer.  

 

Therefore, there is a change in HSE enforcement expectations in relation to the control of exposure of welding fume, including that from mild steel welding.

 

All businesses undertaking welding activities should ensure effective engineering controls are provided and correctly used to control fume arising from those welding activities.  

 

Please see HSE bulletin reference: STSU1 – 2019

 

Change in Enforcement Expectations for Mild Steel Welding Fume

 

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