Training
Whether you are looking for the introduction of a formal training programme or to supplement the team by enhancing core skills, we at Environ Safety Management Ltd can through our formal approved and accredited courses offer the development of your staff which will ensure a comprehensive understanding, fulfilment and compliance of the stringent legislative requirements.
Below is a list of our courses relevant to the manufacturing market.
Consultancy Service
- Process Risk Assessments
- Developing strategies, systems and procedures for managing health and safety within your workplace
- Machine safety and guarding advice
- Staff training programs
- Fire risk assessments
- Asbestos Surveys
- Managing Work at Height
- Managing Manual Handling
- Advise on how to reduce the likelihood of slips, trips and falls
- Interpret, manage and take important lessons from data collected following an accident
- Moving Goods Safely
The primary focus of Moving goods safely is to prevent injuries and ill health to shop floor workers, delivery drivers, warehouse staff and others involved in the manufacture, distribution or receipt of goods. The safe collection and delivery of goods requires the co-operation and exchange of information between everyone involved in the supply chain.
The UK manufacturing sector comprises a range of diverse industries and employs over 3.2 million workers. In 2007/8 it reported over 25,900 work related injuries to HSE.
Case Studies
Rochdale cleaner's crush death prompts £140,000 fine
A Rochdale plastics manufacturer has been fined £140,000 after a Portuguese cleaner was crushed to death by a pallet of bags weighing nearly one and a half tonnes. The material, which is used to manufacture washing up bowls, buckets and other plastic products, is dangerous to stack as it can pour out if there is a tear in a bag, making the stack unstable.
The company didn't provide guidance about how to stack the pallets, and no one trained in First Aid was on duty to help try to resuscitate Mr Lages when the pallet fell on him.
"Since Mr Lages' death, TS (UK) Ltd has changed how it stores pallets so that it no longer stacks them on top of each other. If this action had been taken previously, Mr Lages may still be alive today."
Maintenance Company fined after employee’s hand is trapped in machine
The company pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £4,085 costs at Sheffield Crown Court.
The court heard that I S Maintenance employee Craig Chappell, of Wombwell, Barnsley, who was 29 at the time, had been polishing a metal component on a lathe, when his hands became caught and were pulled into it. He had been using an emery cloth and wearing gloves, entangling him further into the machine, which was set to rotate at 1,200 revs per minute.
Mr Chappell had been employed by the company as a fitter in October 2007 but had no experience of operating metal working lathes and was not given the appropriate instruction or cleaning tools to carry out the task.
