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 public sector.
Consultancy Service
- Fire risk assessments
- Disabled access assessments
- General risk assessments
- Asbestos Surveys
- Statutory Safety documentation development
- Working at height
- Managing Manual Handling
- Violence in the Workplace
- Moving Goods Safely
- Managing and Working Safely
The primary focuses of Environ Safety Management Ltd training is protecting your operatives and members of the public, and is to prevent injuries and ill health to those who could be injured if they entered an area unfamiliar to them or if they undertake tasks that falls outside their training matrix.
The safe interface requires the co-ordination, perception or risk, and an understanding that the actions of others may be at odds with the actions of a reasonable person.
Case Studies
Costly Accident on Civic Amenity Centre
At Reading Crown Court today (19 April), Biffa Waste Services Limited was fined £280,000 and ordered to pay full costs of £54,906.57.
A Buckinghamshire-based waste disposal company has been fined after a member of the public was crushed to death at the Civic Amenity site in Newbury.
The prosecution followed a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into Biffa Waste Services Ltd after the death of Dennis Krauesslar, at its waste disposal site on Pinchington Lane, Newbury on 10 September 2007.
Mr Krauesslar, from Bartlemy Close in Newbury, was crushed to death by a motorised loading shovel bucket used to flatten and drag the waste away from the tipping area.
At the time of the incident, the site had a covered pit into which members of the public disposed of their waste.
As the 57-year-old Mr Krauesslar was tipping his garden waste into the pit, he was fatally injured after the bucket of the loading shovel struck him.
The Civic Amenity site is now closed.
At a West Berkshire Magistrates court hearing in February, Biffa Waste Services Limited of Coronation Road, Cressex in High Wycombe pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 by failing to ensure that the garden waste tipping area was safe for members of the public to use.
The company also pleaded guilty to contravening Regulation 3(1)(b) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 by failing to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment of the garden waste tipping area of the site to ensure people other than employees were suitably protected.
Fairground ride owner and private inspector convicted after women are flung from ride.
Thomas Denzil Jones, of Cradley Heath, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 5 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998. He was fined £15,000 and ordered to pay £5,000 costs.
Fairground Inspection Services, the company tasked with carrying out safety tests on the ride, was ordered to pay £35,000 compensation to Ms Oseland after pleading guilty to breaching section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.
The Orbiter featured a rotating vertical pole with six arms - each holding a cluster of spinning cars. The car the two women were in broke away from the arm and was flung through the air before coming to rest near an adjacent fast-food stall.
Bus company fined £400,000 after man is crushed to death
The HSE investigation showed that traffic management at the garage was poor, particularly when buses left the garage at the start of the working day. The garage had originally been designed to hold 65 buses, but at the time of Mr Cherry's death it was the base for 119 vehicles. The garage was not well lit and drivers carrying out checks were forced to walk between closely parked buses that were maneuvering to leave the garage.
