{"id":1087,"date":"2020-01-30T14:24:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2020-01-30T14:24:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T13:24:47","slug":"health-and-safety-at-work-how-do-you-approach-safety-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/health-and-safety-at-work-how-do-you-approach-safety-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and Safety at Work \u2013 How do you approach safety at work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Safety at Work \u2013 How do you approach safety at work?<\/p>\n<p>I am currently into week 2 of a 13 week day course for Nebosh National General Certificate for Health and Safety. It is a course that covers a broad spectrum of different types of business.<\/p>\n<p>One fact this week that made me think was that over recent years between 130 to 190 people a year head off to work for a normal day at work but do not come home because they are killed at work.<\/p>\n<p>A sobering thought, in fact a further 20,000 people suffer major injuries such as amputations, burns and fractures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How can you make your own work environment a safer place to work?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A good reference book for Health and Safety at work has been written by Phil Hughes and Ed Ferrett called<\/p>\n<p>Introduction to Health and Safety at work (now on it\u2019s 6<sup>th<\/sup> edition)<\/p>\n<p>Also there is information on the HSE website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\">www.hse.gov.uk\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/uncategorized\/health-and-safety-at-work-how-do-you-approach-safety-at-work\/attachment\/img_2206\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1088\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1088\" src=\"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2206-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2206-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2206-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_2206.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Safety at Work \u2013 How do you approach safety at work? I am currently into week 2 of a 13 week day course for Nebosh National General Certificate for Health and Safety. It is a course that covers a broad spectrum of different types of business. One fact this week that made me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/corporateeventsplus.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}