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		<title>Health &amp; Safety and The Olympic Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of Health &#38; Safety and The Olympic Games and you probably conjure up an image of all the arena building, transportation links and accommodation projects  that are being carried out in London and other venues across the country.   But how about the likes of you, me and the thousands of other sporting enthusiasts, how safe will we be? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=230&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health and Safety Management Essential Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health and Safety Management Essential Questions &#8211; Here are the questions that every business owner/manager should be asking to check that their business is managing Health and Safety correctly. Your answers will give you an indication about what your business needs to do next, and of course if you answer ‘No’ to any of them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=224&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do People Ignore First Aid At Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often come across people during the course of my work and in everyday conversations who seem to ignore getting First Aid qualifications and see them as just another piece of legislation to comply with &#8211; why? To my mind knowledge of even the very basic First Aid techniques is a must for everyone and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=216&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Media Needs To Carry Out A Risk Assessment!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never ceases to amaze me in these crazy times how people, some supposedly well educated and intelligent, continue to spread and encourage false statements regarding Health &#38; Safety.  These people, mainly from the media who probably have no qualifications in Health &#38; Safety matters but hold degrees in sensationalism rather that journalism appear to be quite happy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=210&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Portable Appliance Testing (PAT testing)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From experience the testing of portable electrical appliances is often an area that gets neglected because there are so many myths about it or it just gets stuck of the &#8216;things to do&#8217; list.  Yet when you think about it electricity is probably one of the most dangerous things we all encounter during our home and working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=207&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life Saving Work</title>
		<link>http://healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/life-saving-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across this article in the Government Business Magazine website   (it pays to poke your nose around, never know what you might find!) which I think is worth publishing again here in full.  It really underlines the message that Judith Hackitt, the Chair of the Health &#38; Safety Executive was saying and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=199&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Focusing On Real Risks, Not Trivia,&#8221; &#8211; Judith Hackitt, Chair of HSE</title>
		<link>http://healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/focusing-on-real-risks-not-trivia-judith-hackitt-chair-of-hse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HSE Chair Judith Hackitt’s speech to IOSH SW Branch, 24 June 2010 is well worth reading if you have any dealings with health and safety or in deed have your own business. Here is a short extract &#8230; &#8220;I have said it many times before: it&#8217;s not about paperwork and bureaucracy it&#8217;s actually about people. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=194&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spending on Health and Safety is an Investment not a Cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work have an interesting article on their website which I think is important for every business owner to be aware of during the current economic climate, so I have copied it here to share with you all. 2009 Annual Report: spending on health and safety is an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=187&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupational Health and Safety – Seven Key Elements Your Policy Statement Should Contain</title>
		<link>http://healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com/2010/06/19/occupational-health-and-safety-%e2%80%93-seven-key-elements-your-policy-statement-should-contain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your companies occupational health and safety policy must include your statement of intent on how you are going to manage, control and apply health and safety in the workplace.  There should be a structure to how you put it together and this article outlines the seven key elements that it should contain. The occupational health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=168&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupational Health and Safety – Five Key Elements to a Good Management System</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know about occupational health and safety but without a well thought out and well implemented management systems being in place a good safety culture will not be developed and thrive.  This article points out five key elements that a good occupational health and safety management system should comprise of. The five key elements [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthandsafetymatters.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7340640&amp;post=158&amp;subd=healthandsafetymatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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