Tag: Health and Safety

Cooling tower registration

If not correctly managed, the water in cooling towers and evaporative condensers can be a source of legionella bacteria. If inhaled in a water droplet, the bacteria can cause Legionnaire’s disease which is a potentially serious, sometimes fatal, illness.

The law

• The Notification of…

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Enforcing Health and Safety Law

The Health and Safety Inspector’s job is to keep people safe and healthy at work. We visit hundreds of locations every year as part of that job. We may have arrived without warning. This isn’t unusual. We don’t always tell people we’re coming and the law lets us visit at any reasonable…

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The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) puts duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses). For most types of incident, including:

• accidents resulting in the death of any person
• accidents…

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