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There is a range of health and safety regulations workplaces must comply with, but none are as comprehensive as the Health & Safety at Work Act (HSWA). The primary legislation for health and safety in the UK, the Act sets out the roles of employers and employees on workplace premises. Here, we explain everything you need to know about the HSWA – and what your workplace must do to comply with it. What is the Health and Safety at Work…

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.