Health and Safety for small businesses: A simple guide
Our simple guide will help you get started on making sure your business is up to date with health and safety practices and meeting legal requirements.
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Fire Risk Assessment Guide
Fire Risk Assessment GuideWhat Is A Fire Risk Assessment? A Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) helps you to identify any hazards that could increase the chance of a fire happening on your premises or that might increase the severity of any fire that occurs.With this information, you can eliminate those risks or reduce the risk as …
What is a DSE assessment?
What is a DSE assessment? The safety and well-being of employees should be something that is on the mind of every employer. For a large percentage of office workers, they work with some form of display screen, whether that’s a PC or Laptop. As amazing as technology is, it can also come with its issues. In …
How Robust is your Health and Safety Model?
Watch our VIDEO to help you assess and quickly identify whether your Health and Safety Model is working effectively. EDP’s Strategic Review will help you to close any potential gaps in your Health and Safety Management.
Changes to ISO 45001 Delayed – But it’s still wise to be prepared
As expert health, safety and environmental consultants, EDP is able to help your organisation to understand more about the proposed new ISO 45001 Standard, as well as the revisions made to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, to ensure you continue to transition to these new Standards whilst the ISO 45001 Management Standard is delayed further into 2017.
Increase in Health and Safety Fines after new sentencing guidelines
Businesses have experienced a steep rise in health and safety fines since new sentencing guidelines were introduced in February 2016. In 2016, there were 19 fines of £1m or more compared to just three fines of over £1m in 2015 and none in 2014.