Keeping up-to date is important, especially in a sector that is constantly changing! We use as many resources as we can in order to stay up-to date with all new material and techniques, so that we may offer you the best service possible.

IOSH
www.iosh.org

IOSH is Europe’s leading body for health and safety professionals, with nearly 33,000 members worldwide, including 13,000 Chartered Safety and Health Practitioners.

ITSSAR
www.itssar.org.uk

The Independent Training Standards Scheme and Register (ITSSAR) is a self financing and non-profit making organisation, formed to offer accreditation to training instructors and organisations supplying industrial truck and construction training services to industry.

As well as offering accreditation, ITSSAR also has an ongoing programme monitoring training and safety to maintain and improve standards where necessary, in the operation of industrial trucks.

CIEH
www.cieh.org

The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) is a registered charity and the professional voice for environmental health. It sets standards, accredits courses and qualifications for the education of members and other environmental health practitioners.

It provides information, evidence and policy advice to local and national government and environmental and public health practitioners in the public and private sectors. As an awarding body, the CIEH provides qualifications, events, and support materials on topics relevant to health, wellbeing and safety to develop workplace skills and best practice.

Violence At Work
www.violenceatwork.co.uk

Provides key information about Workplace Related Violence and Aggression, Health and Safety legislation and Employment Rights that everyone in the UK ought to know!

You’ll also find a Directory of UK based Training Organisations and Security Service providers, plus a wealth of useful links to other violence related resources – everything needed to successfully combat violence at work.

HSE
www.hse.gov.uk

The law puts responsibility on employers and employees to look after health & safety at work. Part of the H.S.E.’s job is to help people understand what these duties mean – and to ensure they are taken seriously. This page brings together information particularly relevant and of interest to employees.

HSE Prosecutions
www.hse.gov.uk/prosecutions

This site gives details of all prosecution cases taken by the H.S.E., since 1st April 1999, which resulted in a conviction.

RIDDOR
www.hse.gov.uk/riddor

This site provides information about RIDDOR and allows you to report accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences. They also offer statistical information on the numbers of reports received by the Incident Contact Centre, under the “Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995″, since 1st April 2001. The service has been developed by the H.S.E., in co-operation with the Local Authorities, to simplify the reporting procedures and to offer a choice in the way in which reports can be made.

FSB
www.fsb.org.uk/

The Federation of Small Businesses is the UK’s largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms. Formed in 1974, it now has 200,000 members across 33 regions and 194 branches.