Picking Health & Safety Training: In-House or Open Course?
Over the last two years, there has been a significant rise in online Health & Safety Training due to working from home becoming the new normal. And for many businesses, online training was a great way to keep their employees updated on Health and Safety….
Why Health and Safety Risk Assessments Should Be Carried Out
The law requires employers to conduct adequate and appropriate Health and Safety Risk Assessments of all work activities? But what more than complying with the legislation is in it for you? Risk Assessment = Opportunity We would say an opportunity to evaluate business risks, eliminate…
Health and Safety Practices: Just Another Tick Box Exercise?
Here’s the thing about Health and Safety practices; it tends to only become a priority in businesses after something has gone wrong. We all know it’s important and something every business needs to consider. And yet when you’ve got deadlines to meet, sales goals to…
Can Your Business Afford £200,000 Health and Safety Fines?
You probably think you have the right Health and Safety measures in place for your business. You would have most likely invested a lot of time in training your employees on the correct information about Health and Safety in a workplace. So, that’s all areas…
Is It Safe For Your Staff to Return to The Office?
As a manager of a business, this should be a question you ask yourself every day in the lead-up to your employees returning to work as normal. Is it safe? Are all correct health and safety measures in place? Should I be holding a Health…
Why Should You Avoid Online Health & Safety Training?
With the recent high rise in online health & safety training, we consider it our duty to our customers to help them understand the importance of face-to-face training when it comes to dealing with the health and safety of their staff. Face-to-face training is more…
Helping You Feel COVID Secure Transitioning Back to Work
Now that businesses are slowly starting to reopen, the safety and knowledge of your employees need to be at a high standard. We offer a wide range of health and safety courses to ensure your business returns as prepared as possible. To ensure the courses…
Meeting the COVID Secure Requirements
Helping you meet your COVID Secure requirements! Here at Line Business Services, we have a team of consultants with experience across a very wide range of business sectors. Our consultants can work with you to assist in the undertaking or review of your COVID-19 Health and Safety Risk…
Are You COVID Secure?
Most workplaces are now allowed to re-open. However, employers are still required to undertake a health and safety risk assessment to say they have done as much as reasonably practicable to make them “COVID Secure”. The government, in conjunction with the HSE, business leaders and…
COVID-19 Relaxing Lockdown: Step 2
As we move into the second phase of the COVID-19 lockdown relaxing, we have seen certain age groups within primary schools and early years setting re-open from 1st June. More and more workplaces are now allowed to re-open; however, employers are still required to undertake a…
COVID-19 Return to Work: Step 1
The New COVID-19 Office Health and Safety Risk Assessment As more and more workplaces re-open after the lockdown, employers are required to undertake a Risk Assessment that states they have done as much as it is reasonably practicable to make them “COVID-19 SECURE”. The government, in conjunction…
Post-Lockdown Workplace Rules: Our Health and Safety Services Are Here
Our Health and Safety Services are here to help As we move towards a potential relaxing of the COVID-19 lockdown rules, it would appear that employers will be required to effectively “self-certify” that they have completed a Risk Assessment for their staff to return to work….
We Continue to Deliver Our Health and Safety Services
Our health and safety services experts are here to help Following the Prime Minister’s recent lockdown announcement, we wanted to write and reassure you that we are doing all we can to make sure business is maintained as usual where possible. You can continue to reach our…
Continued Health and Safety Services Support from LineBSL
We are maintaining our health and safety services We understand there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak and we send our best wishes to you, your family and co-workers during this time. Following the recent update, delivered by Boris Johnson, we…
How Can IOSH Training Courses Optimise Productivity In Your Company?
About IOSH & The IOSH Health and Safety Training Courses The IOSH (The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health) is the largest health and safety chartered body in the world. They have more than 47,000 members across 120 countries. Since the organisation was founded 75 years ago,…
How to Avoid Receiving Health and Safety Fines
After years in which the health and safety fines went up, sometimes even doubling, in 2018/2019 there was a decrease of £17.1 million. According to the Health and Safety Executive, this drop can be explained by the fall in the number of cases completed in the…
Top 7 Fire Safety Tips for Any Business
In this blog post, our fire risk assessment Bristol experts came up with 7 simple fire safety tips you can follow to increase the level of safety in your organisation. Even though the number of fire incidents in England decreased by 29% compared with 10…
3 Tips to Create An Effective Health & Safety Management System
What is a health & safety management system? An HSE management system is a plan you can develop in your organisation to better manage your health and safety and ultimately decrease the risk of accidents and injury. In general, a health & safety management system includes: …