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Every year, thousands of people suffer injuries related to workplace transport. Roger Bibbings of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) offers some ideas on how facilities managers can get to grips with the range of issues that come under the 'workplace transport' banner. |
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Many organisations have yet to come to terms with the 2006 changes in fire protection legislation, leaving them at risk of prosecution if they fail to comply. The National Security Inspectorate (NSI) explains why it's essential to understand and implement legislative requirements to protect your organisation |
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Facilities managers are in a unique position to influence the toll of injury and ill health at work, as they play a key role in establishing safe and healthy working environments for their organisations, says Jill Joyce. |
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Innovations in the art of noise and vibration control can dramatically reduce costs. Peter Wilson of the Industrial Noise and Vibration Centre (INVC) offers a pragmatic guide to the process that has to be followed to determine what constitutes current best practice in noise control problems. |
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Facilities managers are increasingly becoming involved in the fire safety equation, either in actually specifying the fire protection measures that are being installed in the nation's buildings or in the management of the fire systems and equipment. Graham Ellicott sets the scene. |
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David Leigh of Detectomat UK reviews the potential for design-conscious fire detection solutions using new product and system developments from the fire industry. |
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With the ever-increasing need for specialisation in the FM industry and the unwavering need to guarantee compliance, it's no wonder that managers are looking for reliable, UK-wide networks to act as channel partners to outsource work to. Chris Davies outlines a safe option. |
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James Tingay of Cirrus Research provides advice on how to choose the best noise measurement tools to suit your needs, and outlines some issues for consideration after the equipment has been purchased. |
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The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) offers guidance and sheds some light on health and safety - a subject that can appear hugely challenging but that is based, essentially, on straightforward principles. |
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Giles Green, Principal Scientific Advisor at Bureau Veritas, discusses how intelligent compliance rather than unthinking conformance can be applied in controlling the risk of legionella infection. |
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The National Security Inspectorate (NSI) discusses the need for regulation in security and fire protection in order to ensure high standards are not just maintained but continue to progress in these sectors. |
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Is a healthy and safe work environment the Holy Grail of the modern world, asks Mark Carter, or is it in fact achievable? |
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Phil Wright's company, SafetyCO UK is one of the British Fire Consortium's 250 member companies, which is already helping clients gear up for the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, to be enforced from 1 October 2006. Here he explains what facilities managers need to know. |
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In December 2004 the Building Disaster Assessment Group (BEDAG) of the UK office of the Deputy Prime Minister published its report on the evacuation of the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster in September 2001. The research is extensively reported in 116 pages and gives new insight into human behaviour1. |
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Although there are no reliable statistics about the extent of damage to health from workplace dermal exposure, there is no doubt that such exposure is a major contributor to the high level of occupational ill health that still occurs in most industrial countries.
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For facilities managers, legionella risk assessments are crucial and statutory for the prevention of a potentiall lethal disease. |
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Research and studies indicate that are many profitable reasons for companies to invest in corporate fitness despite economic downturn. |
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Rarely has a government initiative had such an impact across the wide spectrum of facilities activities – the implications of Patient Choice have now become central to the concerns of FM throughout the healthcare sector. |
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Defined within the Occupational Health and Safety Assessment series of standards as: "The conditions and factors that affect the wellbeing of employees, temporary workers, contractor personnel, visitors and any other person in the workplace", occupational health and safety affects every workplace, employee and employer. |
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With premises managers holding diverse portfolios that include much of the responsibility for implementing safety-related changes, there is clearly a need for general safety qualifications for managers and supervisors. |
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