Every week, we receive scores of questions from you, about your most pressing health and safety issues. This is one of the benefits of being a subscriber to the Health and Safety Advisor Loose Leaf service.

I doubt anyone hasn’t heard the story of the accident involving the employee whose hands were chopped off by an industrial guillotine – gruesome!

I imagine you’ve noticed a theme in the last few bulletins: Incidents, and all the issues surrounding your compliance if these occur at workplace.

Paramedics had to rescue a worker from Delta Ready Mix Company after his hand got stuck in a cement mix pipe!

Two of our resident consultants specialise in occupational health and safety. Sven Marcus and Stephanie Kruger have contributed to a great many of the chapters in the Health and Safety Advisor Handbook, specifically focused on maintaining the health and wellbeing of employees in the workplace. One such chapter centred on the necessity for medical surveillance in your business, and included the five ways medical surveillance will reduce hazards...

Health and safety representative inspections or workplace inspections fulfill almost the same function as a mini or 3-minute risk assessment: you PRO-ACTIVELY identify possible hazards and risks in the working environment and give your employees the opportunity to act timely before an actual incident occurs.