By comparison to other types of business, quarrying is high-risk. The nature of the work and the machines involved mean health and safety is a major priority for most quarrying businesses. This includes Huntsmans Quarries, a Gloucestershire-based business with around 40 employees. Huntsmans Quarries’ story is one that all SMEs can learn from. This is because it did not take … Read More
How Technology Can Help Break Through the Health and Safety Statistical Plateau
Our last eBook on improving the health and safety culture in your organisation was well received so we decided to research other areas of interest as subjects for a new eBook. The area we quickly identified was the plateau in health and safety statistics as evidenced by Great Britain fatality rates. This data from the HSE shows that, in the last … Read More
Achieving Zero Lost Time Accidents in a High-Risk Industry
The sector with the highest average fatalities per 100,000 workers over the past five years is Agriculture with a rate of 8.44 versus a rate of 0.46 across all industry sectors. Despite this headline figure, there are companies making tremendous strides in keeping their workers safe and, indeed, some that can be held up as examples of health and safety … Read More
