IOSH Working Safely course – helping your team stay safe
At Amalgamate, we pride ourselves on delivering professional and personal training solutions that make a positive difference to your business. We firmly believe that providing high quality training provides a chance for organisations to reduce their risk and ensure that their workforce, no matter what size, is productive, motivated and safe. Therefore we are pleased to offer the […]
Read MoreThomas Elliott joins the Amalgamate team
We’re very pleased to have Thomas Elliott joining Amalgamate as a Senior Health and Safety Consultant this week. Thomas brings a wealth of experience with him from 14 years of working in Health & Safety, in both the private and public sectors. He will be providing health, safety and fire services, with an emphasis on understanding the business needs of […]
Read MoreHelping Great Britain to work well
It’s great that 2016 starts with a big focus on Health and Safety, and to see the HSE’s new GB Health and Safety strategy being launched this month. Have you been engaged yet? We can all influence the discussion. The HSE has started to engage with the people and organisations that can help Great Britain […]
Read MoreHSE Statistics
The Health and Safety Executive have published their statistics for this year, and revealed the shocking number of people still being injured or made sick by their work. Some key figures include: 1.2 million people suffering from a work-related illness 611,000 injuries at work 142 people killed at work Although workplace health and safety has improved over […]
Read MoreWin a free AA Emergency Car Kit
Business leaders are responsible for ensuring their employees’ safety, and when winter comes around it’s important to remind them of the need to pay attention to safe driving issues. So this month we’re giving away an AA Emergency Winter Car Kit to help draw attention to the subject. Read on for winter driving tips to share […]
Read MoreInactivity – We can’t keep sitting still
We have become an immobile nation. On average, workers in the UK spend 60% of their waking hours sitting down – and if they’re office-based, this can rise to as much as 75%. Official government data shows that 29% of people in England are classed as physically inactive, meaning that they do less than 30 minutes […]
Read MoreNew H&S Sentencing Guidelines – Are you ready?
New Sentencing Guidelines come into effect in February 2016. Is your business ready? The Sentencing Council’s new guidelines aim to ensure a consistent approach to health and safety, corporate manslaughter, and food safety and hygiene cases, and will lead to a more severe response to these cases, and potentially higher fines. Company directors who are […]
Read MoreAsbestos and the CDM 2015 Regulations
Due to the shift in responsibilities under the new CDM Regulations, there is a potential duty for the Principal Designer and the client to ensure that exposure to asbestos is being managed throughout a construction project. In the HSE guidance on the new CDM Regulations it places more explicit requirements on duty holders to follow […]
Read MoreA great Health and Safety career opportunity
We are currently looking for a Health and Safety Consultant to help service our expanding portfolio of clients. We need an enthusiastic, confident and self‐motivated individual, who is comfortable working unsupervised to deliver health, safety and fire consultancy services to clients from a wide range of sectors. Ideally, the candidate will be able to demonstrate that they: Are […]
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