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A carpentry and joinery company has been fined £200,000 after a worker fell from a forklift truck in Coventry. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that unsafe working practices were the cause of the incident in June 2021. In addition to using a stillage to lift workers onto the forklift, the company demonstrated a lack of training, correct equipment and risk assessments. Here’s how to protect your business and employees from dangerous work-at-height practices. The incident…

We were delighted to host some of our membership service clients at our training centre this week. We issue awards for heath and safety excellence for clients who have achieved 100% in their Annual Safety Review. Achieving this level of compliance takes hard work, commitment and dedication and shows real leadership on the part of these companies. We are very proud to represent such great companies with our membership service and hope to see many more in the years to come.

We have been very busy over the past few weeks updating our displays in the training rooms and break out areas. When you come to us for your courses, you’ll see a fresh new look, clear information on what we do and a welcoming vibe. This work adds to the roof refurbishment that we had last year, which included the addition of a permanent handrail and safe roof access. Our next upgrade will be to our rear carpark, which will…

You are currently enjoying our brand new website! We hope you like the fresh new look, which references the new colour scheme in our training centre. We have also made the navigation simpler, and have clarified the services we offer. There is also a brand new booking facility for site inspections as well as a great interface with our training booking software. We are grateful to Interpro for their hard work – we love it! Interpro are also the designers…

HCS Safety are delighted to announce that we are re-opening our training centre in Southampton for face-to-face classroom learning from 22nd February 2021. We have given a lot of thought to how we re-open safely in light of the new variant of the virus and have concluded that to do the right thing morally and legally, for both our customers and own employees, we will start to conduct lateral flow Covid-19 rapid testing for all our attendees and staff.

The vaccine roll out looks like it will be the success story of the pandemic – it is heartening to see how well and how quickly our country can mobilise to get this delivered to the people that need it. But why is it that a healthy 55 year old who works from home will receive their vaccine months before a 25 year old working in a supermarket, in a factory or on a construction site? Risk is about more…