health and safety

• Working in high temperatures: how to ensure your staff are safe
  Posted on July 30, 2013 by QualitySolicitors
  If you’re reading this from the comfort of your air conditioned office, then you’re lucky. But spare a thought for the people who are working in the confines of an office without cooling or who are working outside.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: Employment law, work place safety, working in high temperatures, health and safety, TUC
• And did those feet...
  Posted on November 6, 2012 by Louise Restell
  Poor old health and safety, it gets a bit of a bum rap. It should be lauded as one of the great achievements of the 20th century, protecting millions of workers from death and injury at work because of careless or unscrupulous employers. We should cherish it for not only making work a safer place to be but for ensuring that when things do go wrong guilty bosses have to pay up.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: Lofstedt report, health and safety, strict liability, Heath and Safety at Work Act, workplace accidents, MoD
• Dispel the health and safety myth? It's more than my job's worth
  Posted on April 11, 2012 by Louise Restell
  I have to admit I have never actually attended the St Albans annual Shrove Tuesday pancake race, even though it takes place 10 minutes from where I live. In fact, I don’t think I had even heard of it until it was cited as a classic example of health and safety gone mad because one year contestants were told to walk, not run, because of rain.
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  Posted in: Employment law
  Tagged: Chris Grayling, compensation culture, David Cameron, health and safety, HSE, Lord Young
• It's the end of the world as we know it - feeling fine?
  Posted on January 16, 2012 by Louise Restell
  It’s rather a British thing to support the underdog. I’m pretty sure most of us feel a natural affinity for David and get a warm glow when he manages to land one on Goliath. It’s nice to know that when the little guy takes on an injustice done to him he can be sure of a fair hearing thanks to Lady Justice and the principles of magna carta. At least that’s what it used to be like.
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  Posted in: Justice system, Legal aid
  Tagged: access to justice, CFA, David and Goliath, David Cameron, health and safety, LASPO, no win no fee, red tape