NEBOSH/HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation
We are currently taking bookings for the above course, which we will be running via ‘Zoom’ on 31 March 2021. If you wish to undertake this course, please contact us and we will take your booking.
All our courses are now available virtually
In light of the ever-increasing demand for virtual health and safety training courses, we are happy to say that we can now oblige. All of our training courses, from 90-minute health and safety law updates to 10-day NEBOSH Certificates can now be taught …
Blue Monday – 5 Tips for better mental health
The 18th of January. Not a very special date; it’s in the middle of the first month of the year and isn’t particularly remarkable, apart from being renowned as the year’s most depressing day – Blue Monday. ‘Blue Monday’ as this third Monday in January …
New ‘CoSHH Assessment’ Course
The current global pandemic has had a huge impact on organisations of all types. As a result, more and more employers will need training in how to assess the risks of Coronavirus. To help with this, and to help employers to meet their general duties to …
New ‘CDM Awareness’ Course
We have had a lot of enquiries about running a course on the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, and we’re happy to oblige! Our one-day ‘CDM Awareness’ course is designed to cover the essential requirements of these important Regulat …
Some Facts About PPE
The subject of Personal Protective Equipment (‘PPE’) has rarely been off our TV screens in the past few weeks. The apparent problems with supplying the right amount of suitable PPE to protect NHS staff and others from the Covid-19 virus have been causi …
Employee fined £2000 for health and safety offences
We hear a lot about employers, even the odd company director, being prosecuted for health and safety offences but have you ever wondered if employees get convicted? Well, this is certainly a possibility. Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1 …
Picking up the ‘PEACEs’
There’s been an incident in your organisation, so what do you do? You could ignore it, but this probably won’t stop it from happening again, maybe with more serious consequences next time. Instead, you decide to conduct an investigation, but how would …
The trouble with an ‘Incident’
I often get asked about the terminology used in the world of health and safety at work – there’s a lot of it, and it can be confusing! We at Griffin Safety Training Limited like to think we can explain things in simple terms that all our delegates can …
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act – Are More Cases in the Pipeline?
It’s now just over 10 years since the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (The 2007 Act) became law. Despite the fact that over 13,000 work-related deaths are recorded annually in the UK (mostly due to ill health), there have so far …
