Health, Safety & Quality Consultancy
Introduction
The ‘Safety at Street Works and Road Works’ is a code of practice issued by the Secretary of State for Transport under the ‘New Roads and Street Works Act 1991’. The code sets out the health & safety requirements for carrying out street and road works to keep both operatives and other road users safe during these operations. This applies especially to vulnerable users including pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders as well as drivers.
Are you still displaying the old health & safety poster?
The old 1999 version came to an end on April 5th. From this date the new poster must be displayed. You can buy the new posters from http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/books/lawposter.htm
The HSE has just released the widely anticipated consultation document on the replacement of the CDM Regulations 2007.
The HSE states a key consideration is to tailor the Regulations towards smaller sites where it reports two thirds of construction fatalities now occur.
Following a Freedom of Information request by a health and safety organisation, ELAS, it has been revealed that businesses were fined a total of £5, 532, 565 under the Fees for Intervention (FFI) scheme since its induction on 1st October 2012.