H & S info and stats etc.....

[Lorry thompson]

Haha I'm probably on my last one now cheers mate

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Hey Lorry...on with "H&S" stuff eh, I can offer you loads...tee hee!

 

Jokin apart I applaud your positive approach to H&S which, whilst seemingly a pain in the 'proverbial' actually can work to the benefit of a company if the management embrace it and feed that through to the guys...they then have the peace of mind of knowing their employers are genuinely on board with H&S stuff and hence keeping them safe and well to send home at the end of a working day.

 

The other angle of course is that certain aspects of H&S your legally obliged to undertake as part of your 'employers duties' under the Act (HASWA 74, the Health and Safety at Work (etc.) Act 1974,,,but then I'm sure your 'bro' will be up to speed with that.

 

In terms of sources of info for updates / regulation changes etc., I would suggest:

1. HSE website, in general as well as they treework section

2. Business Link website, you can log into the regulatory updates section

3. Arb Info Exchange website (Welcome to the Arboricultural Information Exchange.) which is a valuable source but not terribly active at the moment

4. AA website & newsletter, to a point. We do however post periodic HSE updates directly to AAACs, kinda a benefit of membership.

5. IOSH (Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) website

 

In terms of 'stats' the reality is the HSE don't have accurate figures about industry specific injuries/near misses/fatalities as anything related to chainsaws and trees, including none professionals, gets logged with arb/forstry under the RIDDOR reporting. Not a great scenario and one the HSE are looking to address....sometime!

 

Hope this to be of help...if not post back!

 

Good luck n well done!

 

Paul

[Lorry thompson]

That's great cheers Paul will get Simon to look into them all paperwork is a bit of a pain sometimes but it's what wins the work now it seems and keeping safe can't do any harm either thanks again