The following is a selection of articles regarding Health and Safety. Should you wish to contribute to this section with your own article, or would like to suggest a particular topic for our next article, please contact us When is an audit really an inspection? Do we really understand these terms? Both audits and inspections are proactive methods of monitoring health and safety performance. They offer us ways of checking standards before things go wrong, thus avoiding loss, and maximizing productivity. Effective health and safety management can make a major contribution to the profitability of any organisation. Working safely for example, correlates directly with efficiency, productivity, and the avoidance of losses and waste. Well thought-out policies provide the foundation upon which to build a business. Any organisation that sets out without clear ideas about what its central objectives are and how it intends to conduct its affairs is destined to fail. Health and safety management is a strategic function just as financial management or personnel management are strategic functions. By this stage we have developed a policy setting out our aims in health and safety, and we have organised staff so that these aims and objectives can be delivered. The next step is to plan exactly what has to be done and begin to put our plans into practice. How well is it all working? Are we achieving our objectives? Are our risk control measures effective? Are staff adopting the working methods we have devised with them? The review is an examination of the experiences gained whilst implementing the management system. This means that we have to provide mechanisms by which people can feed back these experiences, and these may take forms such as feedback sessions, written reports, and health and safety committee meetings. Just because you work behind a desk in a nice office, that doesn't mean you're safe. Here are a few point about stress on the job together with some simple remedies. When one talks about health and safety at the workplace, one's mind is usually and almost instantly set on things related to wearing helmets, protection glasses, safety shoes and other safety gear. However, there are things which are just as important and which effect one's behaviour and attitude at the workplace just as much as having to deal with dangerous health risks at work. Following several articles regarding creating a healthy environment at the workplace - including the new Employment and Industrial Relations Act and the new Health and Safety Act, Commercial Services Bureau has now been targeting problems employees may face at their workplaces. These articles focused on how these employees, their colleagues and even their employers can help these people overcome their problems. We don't all live in a yellow submarine, where there would be no windows to open and extremely cramped living and working quarters. If you join the navy as a submariner, you know what you're going in for. But when you join a land-based organisation, you do not expect to find cramped workplaces with a lack of natural air and lighting. Yet this is the norm for too many offices.
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