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The power of PUWER

It’s worth taking a closer look at the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and, in particularly, why its requirement for regular inspections helps drives productivity as well as safety and compliance

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Effective communication increases productivity on high-noise sites

Communicating effectively is essential to carrying out tasks safely and efficiently, however this can be difficult to achieve in a high-noise workplace.
Given this, selecting equipment which allows wearers to talk to each other and hear their surroundings while receiving adequate hearing protection is essential

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Safety knives: Cutting the risks and boosting the benefits

FAMILIARITY WITH knives in everyday life can lead to a widespread blind spot when it comes to their provision and use in the workplace. Here, Ian Crellin outlines factors to consider when choosing safety knives to ensure they are both fit-for-purpose and safe to use

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Monitoring for welding fume

Welding is a very common fabrication process, used across production and maintenance operations, that uses heat to join (or fuse) two or more materials by heating them to melting point.

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BSIF Special Interest Groups

IN THE normal course of everyday life (if anyone can remember that far back) by far the most frequent encounter with personal protective equipment (PPE) that you are likely to have would be with an item of protective clothing or protective gloves.

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Safety signs in the workplace

AS YOU walk through any business – whether that be a high street shop, a prestige office block, a manufacturing plant, a construction site or a local school/hospital – there should be one constant on view across all industries and all locations; the humble safety sign

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