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4 April 2023

The long trip to Sligo didn’t deter our Northern Ireland representatives from acquitting themselves very well at the All Ireland Quiz Finals last weekend. Held in the Radisson Blu hotel teams from all over Ireland compete for the highly c..

28 March 2023

Thanks to Health & Safety Review for this article/checklist by Margaret Kirby. What is different about this checklist is it was created following a court case where an injury was sustained from lifting above the shoulder.&nbs..

18 March 2023

A leading health and safety coalition has issued a call to arms for the Government to scrap the arbitrary deadlines of the EU Retained Law Bill to help the UK retain its position as a beacon of health and safety. Joint statement  “Gi..

14 March 2023

The Public Health Agency (PHA) use ReachDeck to translate their messages into different languages. This is a terrific tool to use if you want to pass on a PHA message to foreign workers. For example, the image at the start of this article shows the..

11 March 2023

HSENI are reminding all companies in the food industry to ensure that they have robust control measures in place to prevent serious injury to those responsible for operating, cleaning and maintaining dicing machines. A worker recently suffered life-..

4 March 2023

Managers can improve team wellbeing in many ways is this week's joint article with Inspire Wellbeing.  Did you know - Managers can have a greater impact on the mental health of their team members than a therapist or a doctor. Tha..

28 February 2023

In a recent press release IOSH urges UK businesses to take better care of their workforce, or risk greater uncertainty. New research commissioned by IOSH paints a gloomy picture of the UK workplace as a demotivated world of insecurity and weak ..

27 February 2023

Last Friday night witnessed an enjoyable and very hard fought quiz with scores between the top teams being very close. Winners of the Previous Entrants category - Hyster Yale Group The winning team with Quiz Sponsor Bill McAllister, Safety A..

25 February 2023

Civil engineering firm Kier has been fined more than £4m after its workers twice struck overhead powerlines while working on the M6 motorway causing cables to land in the path of passing vehicles. In one incident, an overhead cable the workers..

23 February 2023

Angry thinking  is the subject of this week's joint article with Inspire Wellbeing. We all have irrational thoughts, which keep us caught in anger. These errors in thinking are defence mechanisms that we have learned. They generally cause u..

18 February 2023

Following an investigation by the HSENI, fines totalling £50,000 have  been handed down (15 February 2023) to three defendants at Belfast Crown Court. The investigation followed a workplace fatality which took place in Enniskillen on..

18 February 2023

The purpose of this safety alert is to raise awareness of the risks associated with the use of emery cloth on rotating machinery. Introduction HSENI have investigated a number of accidents in which workers became entangled in rotating machinery, ea..