RRC Training Health and Safety Podcasts
Summary: Each month RRC Training's experts discuss issues relating to whatever's current and being talked about (or not being talked about) in the world of health and safety. The series will be continually updated and is created primarily for the health and safety professional but anyone with an interest in health, safety and environmental issues will learn a thing or two from these podcasts. Health and safety is a serious matter but we don't treat it as such in these podcasts. Some pretty strange people join in the discussions. But that's what you expect when you try to talk sense about health and safety these days.
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Podcasts:
David Towlson and John Carruthers consider the business case for giving attention to health and safety.
Although offices are generally low risk environments, that doesn't mean to say we can ignore the hazards. Many of us work in offices or the home-office (excluding Ministers, of course, who may be out shopping). In this episode we take a look at slips, trips and falls, computers and portable electrical appliances.
David Towlson and the difficult John Carruthers are joined by Mark Thomas, a policy adviser for the Slips, Trips and Falls from Height programme from the Health and Safety Executive, and Mr Carruthers' new PA, Chardonnay. This podcast considers some of the difficulties of working at height and explains the HSE's ladder exchange scheme aimed at ladder users and those who manage the work. For more information it's worth checking the HSE website on ladders at http://www.hse.gov.uk/falls
Episode 6: GHS Chemical Labelling (videocast)
On June 27th 2007, the EU adopted a proposal from the European Commission for a regulation on the "Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)". This proposal is just the first stage in the legislative process, so it will be a while yet before the GHS replaces the current system. GHS is intended to bring a globally harmonised approach to classifying and labelling chemicals, instead of the confusing regional variants we presently have. This podcast is a starting point towards raising your awareness in a light-hearted way. When you listen to it you will understand why we also offer it as a videocast!
The Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals EU Regulation came into force in June 2007. It's a complicated subject that has limited appeal to specialists in the chemical industry but its purpose is to protect all of us and make industry more responsible for the chemicals they produce. This podcast from David Towlson tries to clarify some of the issues so that you can work out where your CSA fits in your CSR; how to find EINECS on the ECB; the need to check out MUD and the difference between NONs and CHIP. It goes beneath all the jargon to explain the key points to REACH.
Every day there seems to be another story in the media about those mad and bad health and safety regulators. David Towlson looks at the truth behind some of them and listens to some complaints that aren't all they seem.
Safety is increasingly being seen as a risk that needs to be managed, just like other aspects of a business. Business management systems have been used for many years, so why not apply them to safety too? RRC's David Towlson and John Carruthers discuss the ways to do it.
David Towlson discusses the recent changes to the CDM regulations. These are not really earth-shattering, but instead constitute a logical pulling-together of what already existed in order to make the law clearer and responsibilities easier to understand. There is a new emphasis on communication, co-ordination and co-operation with the old planning supervisor being replaced with a Co-ordinator.
What do the recent changes to the fire regulations really entail? David Towlson tries to convince John Carruthers that it's all pretty clear and more straightforward than he imagines. Fire certificates are a thing of the past but the same principles of assessing risk and implementing precautionary measures are still the backbone.
