Bonum Safety delivered Asbestos awareness courses this week. Sadly over 5000 people die every year from asbestos related diseases.

Every employer must make sure that anyone who may disturb asbestos during their normal work, or who supervises those employees receives the correct level information, instruction and training to enable them to work safely and competently without the risk to themselves or others.

Asbestos awareness ensures your employees are aware of the dangers.

 

 

Bonum Safety spent Thursday afternoon  carrying  out face fit testing for two small construction companies.

Where RPE is used it must be able to provide adequate protection for individual wearers. Poor fitting RPE cannot protect the wearer if it leaks. A major cause of leaks is poor fitting face masks.

People come in all different shapes and sizes so carrying out face fit testing ensures the RPE selected is suitable for the wearer.

RPE fit testing should be carried out at the initial selection stage of the RPE you require. This give individuals a choice of adequate models of RPE. The make, model, type and size of the face piece must be the one used by the wearer following the successful test. If more than one type of face mask is used then each type must be tested.

Bonum Safety delivered a presentation today to operational managers on how the Lifting Operations and Lifting equipment Regulations 1998 impact on the work place. Any piece of lifting machinery that is used in the workplace comes under the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations.

If you are an employer or self employed person providing lifting equipment for use at work, or if you have control of the use of lifting equipment , you must make sure the lifting equipment is safe.