Competent Contractor Event - Friday, 31st March

A Competent Contractor Event will be held on Friday, 31st March at the John Charles Centre for Sport (formerly South Leeds Stadium), The Parkside Suite, Middleton Grove, Leeds LS11 5DJ.

This FREE session will include information and advice about usual criteria clients need re-assurance of, i.e. Risk Assessments, Method Statements, the Competency, Experience and Training of Your Staff.

The session covers the proportional approach to Health & Safety and expected co-operation with others on a project that ensures the client's reputation and helps you gain a competitive edge! Learn How to Improve Your Business!

This FREE session will provide you with information on:

• Safety Schemes in Procurement (CHaS/ Safecontractor etc)
• Principal Contractors PQQ: Pre-qualification Questionaires – how to get approved!
• SSOW: Risk Assessments, Method Statements; Competency and Best Practices
• Training Requirements and minimum standards
• Using external Consultants – the Do’s & Don’t’s

To book a FREE place/s go to:

https://hsewwtcompetentcontractor310317.eventbrite.co.uk

If you have any questions please email to: Formsadmin.leeds@hse.gov.uk by Wednesday 29th March 2017.

An example of just how many notices the HSE has to issue

The Health and Safety Executive is the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness. As a regulator they are kept extremely busy, but that's hard to visualize unless you can see the work they are doing. Well, you can.

When the HSE discovers a problem on a site they issue a notice. Recently a two-month notices issued summary was released in document form covering active Leeds, Sheffield, and Newcastle construction teams. Even though it was only for 2 months and a small section of the UK, 47 notices were issued broken down as follows:

• Working at height x 20
• Welfare x 7
• CDM x 7
• PUWER x 2
• Asbestos x 4
• Manual Handling x 2
• Fire x 3
• Electrical Safety x 1
• COSHH x 1

You can read the details of all these notices by downloading the summary document they came from. It just goes to show how important the HSE is, but also how proper training can prevent your workers from ever being served one of these notices and potentially slowing down or even stopping work.

C&D attend IDE Spring Seminar at Royal Armouries

C&D Consultancy unveiled their new exhibition banners for the first time at the IDE Seminar in Leeds. The C&D stand was in the main hall and drew good comments from delegates with both John & Jill involved in long conversations about why C&D are different. A photo of one of the new banners can be seen above.