News : confined space training course

East Midlands-based health and safety training course experts, Essential Health and Safety have unveiled their brand new website this week. The new look www.ehast.co.uk has been designed to help businesses up and down the country find and book a range of health and safety training courses.

Detailed explanations of the courses on offer, applicable legislation and retraining requirements feature heavily on the...

Confined space training might seem like something which only those working in construction, agriculture or a similar industry might need, but there are a surprising number of niche vocations in which employees would benefit from this type of training. Environments such as orchestra pits in theatres, camera bays in filming locations, large freezers or ovens in food manufacture and many more surroundings all fall into...

There are many statistics relating to accidents at work due to incorrect application of Health and Safety procedures, but none so damning as the fact that these sorts of failures cost British employers up to £6bn per year. According to RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents), around 70% of occupational accidents could have been prevented if the correct safety measures were put in place by employers....