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Yipeee! Its here! Courtley are now capable of taking online training bookings! All the information you need is below, however if you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact us! For membership rates, please contact us for your 10% discount code! Visit our training courses pages...

Families in Newcastle Invited To Come Out and Play

Families in Newcastle are being invited to come out and play with the introduction of a new scheme aimed at making streets safer. Newcastle City Council is launching Play Streets to enable people to close their streets to through traffic for up to three hours. It means children will be...

High Levels of Worker Representation Linked to Better Stress Management

Organisations with high levels of worker representation and management commitment to occupational safety and health (OSH) are five times more likely to manage stress and psychosocial risks well than those without. This is one of the findings of a new analysis of European workplace OSH management data by the European...

CITB Changes: Automated Grant Payments

From 1st April 2018, CITB’s grant process will become automated; and will be completely handled by your training provider. The application for a grant will be instigated when we, (or your alternative training provider – boooo), submit your candidate’s results, following completion of a training course. For us to be...

Girl’s Broken Wrist in Tree Fall Costs Centre Parcs £250,000

Holiday company Centre Parcs has been fined £250,000 for failing to ensure the safety of an eight year old girl during a tree-climbing activity session. The prosecution was brought by Central Bedfordshire Council over an accident on 22 October 2015 at the Woburn Forest Village, Bedfordshire, when the girl fell...

Liverpool Prison Workers Fired for Raising Safety Fears

Two maintenance workers were sacked for raising concerns about health and safety at troubled Liverpool Prison, the BBC has learned. John Bromilow and Harry Wildman, who worked at the jail for more than 20 years, were fired by Amey who had the contract for prison repairs. Amey claimed they brought...

Scaffolder Who Worked 60ft in the Air with No Harness, Avoids Jail

A scaffolder worked 60ft in the air with nothing to stop him plummeting to the ground in what has been described as a 'moment of stupidity'. Terrance Murray wore a harness only that wasn't attached to anything. The 'daredevil' was caught on camera and has been given a suspended jail...

Making the Business Case for Sleep

We all know that if we have a bad night’s sleep, the next day we’re just not at our best. We are often more irritable, find it hard to concentrate or don’t perform as well as usual and the longer our sleep is disrupted the worse these impacts get. And...

When Crisis Strikes

A crisis is make or break and many firms have lived or died on the back of their crisis response and communications. Belinda Liversedge discovers the fine art of crisis communications It’s easy in retrospect to see how companies poorly handle media and communications in the face of a safety...

Two-Thirds of Construction Bosses Can’t Find Bricklayers or Joiners

Skills shortages are said to have hit a ‘record high’, two-thirds of bosses running small and medium-sized (SME) construction firms are struggling to hire bricklayers and carpenters as the construction skills shortages hit a ‘record high’, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). Key results from the FMB’s latest...

Health & Safety Award Winner 2017!

Health & Safety Award - Hughes and Hilton Piling Ltd Our Health & Safety award is presented to one of our member companies who has shown outstanding performance throughout the year. This year we would like to congratulate Hughes and Hilton Piling Ltd on their proactive approach to health &...

Mental Health: Employers Cannot ‘Pay Lip Service’ to Workplace Issues

Both the government and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have signalled that mental health & well-being in the workplace is a priority. Simply paying lip service to mental health issues among the workforce is therefore no longer an option for employers. In January 2017, UK prime minister Theresa May...

Health Fears Raised Over Construction Nano-Technologies

Nanotechnologies being used in building materials on construction sites could pose a health threat to construction and demolition workers. Researchers at Loughborough University have now issued a guide for construction companies about how to minimise the dangers. Nanotechnologies manipulate materials atom by atom. Estimates suggest that by 2025 up to...

Worker Tragically Crushed By Dumper Truck

A case has recently made it to court after a tragic accident which resulted in a scaffolder being crushed and killed by a dumper truck on site. The incident occurred back in 2013, at a Redrow Homes housing development site. The scaffolder, Henry Jones was working on the site when a dumper truck reversed into...