Health & Safety Training Blog

If you’re interested in obtaining the NEBOSH Fire and Construction Course certificates, you may want to read on!

Sound the ALARM…. The UK is returning to normality! Hooray!

It’s great news to hear the Government are going to remove most, if not all, restrictions on the 19th July. However, regardless of how you feel about that personally, that means we have to get our ‘game face’ on! No-one wants to be the site manager or director responsible for an accident, a life changing incident or a potential fatality wherever you work.
So, whilst we are all happy that life is going back to normal, we must remember that the construction business is a dangerous place! Yes, we know, we’re party-poopers!
But consider the following:

Don’t drink the water…?

With the gentle return of employees to offices large and small now on the horizon following COVID shutdowns, a question that the HSE are asking is “What’s in the water?”

What is your ‘blend’…?

Before we start, I’m not talking about coffee here! Not yet anyway…
Blended learning is a concept which many of us probably haven’t encountered before, but might just be the best of both worlds. Let me explain….

For many people, the need for keeping up to date in a continually changing and improving technical industry was already hard, and that was before COVID-19 struck! Now with restrictions on face-to-face interactions in all aspects of life and with much of the necessary industry training being traditionally undertaken in a classroom, what are the alternatives, and do they work for everyone?

Training can be a nightmare to arrange. First you have to decide what courses are required, then you have to match courses to times that are convenient for the people who need to be on them. And that's before you've thought about the expenses claims for accommodation or travel.

It's becoming abundantly clear as time goes on that we cannot carry on doing business along traditional lines. Sustainable business means promoting a healthier, long-term future not just for your firm but for the country and world as a whole.

The academic life is not for everyone. Whilst some learn best in a classroom with books and computers, others learn best through trial and error, practice and perfection. Apprenticeships and on-the-job training have long been recognised as a great way to learn construction skills. But whilst being able to do a job is great you still need to be able to show that you can do the job and obtaining a qualification is the most sure-fire way of doing so.

There comes a time in your career when the boredom sets in, you feel as though you’ve done everything many times over and you are ready for another challenge...

In our last post we discussed why toolbox talks are beneficial to a construction site team. In this article, we explore what makes a talk effective and engaging.