CPC Road Transport

1st Safety Solutions can now act as your competent person regarding your road transport operators licence.

Operators licence legislation requires all Standard National Operators to either hold a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) or have in their employ a similarly qualified Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) holder.

Contact us for further information or to arrange a site visit.

HSE Load Safety Campaign

Spot checks on hundreds of vehicles will take place in the coming weeks in support of a new drive to ensure that loads are being transported securely.

The Health and Safety Executive's new load safety campaign is focused on reducing the number of death and injuries linked to workplace transport.

Loading and unloading accounts for one in five workplace transport incidents- many resulting from loads not being properly restrained.

Unsafe loads on vehicles injure more than 1,200 people a year and cost UK businesses millions of pounds in damaged goods.

There will be eight days of spot checks at locations across the North West, with officers from HSE and the Vehicle Operator Services Agency (VOSA) inspecting the loads of vehicles that have been pulled over at random.

Similar spot checks took place in April last year with close to 80 per cent of loads found not to be sufficiently restrained.

Drivers/businesses who are found to have unsafe loads face fines or even risk having their vehicle ordered off the road.

As part of the wider 9 week campaign, hauliers and transport managers will be mailed with guidance and top tips on loading and unloading safely and radio and trade press adverts will invite workers to visit www.hse.gov.uk/loadsafety[1] for more information

IOSH MANAGING SAFELY in PORTS

Managing Safely in Ports is a course for managers and supervisors in a Ports or Harbours Authority related industry. It’s designed to give managers all they need to know to help them handle health and safety in their teams. The flexible new high impact programme covers all the main health and safety issues, and includes a session tackling the environment too. The course lasts for 24 hours in total and has eight modules:

• Introducing Managing Safely
• Assessing risks
• Controlling risks
• Understanding your responsibilities
• Identifying hazards
• Investigating accidents and incidents
• Measuring performance
• Protecting our environment

1st Safety Solutions can now deliver this course at a location to suit your organisation, and each course is tailored to include your own safety management processes, as this will provide the delegates with a greater understanding of what their responsibilities are within their own workplace.

Please contact us for more details - ian@1stsafetysolutions.co.uk

WORKING at HEIGHT

Working at height legislation introduced by the HSE requires employers to assess the risks involved and apply workplace precautions and risk control systems.

1st Safety Solutions can assist employers to meet this legislation, and ensure safe systems are developed.

Please contact us for more details - ian@1stsafetysolutions.co.uk

NOISE MANAGEMENT

Noise legislation requires an organisation to assess the impact that noise has on its employees and other that may be affected by it.  Before controls can be put into place, the source and level of noise must be ascertained.

1st safety solutions can assist an organisation to carry out detailed noise assessments by providing a specialist, trained to the Institute of Acoustics Competent Person standard,  who will work with an organisation in developing assessments and required control measures.

Please contact us for more details - ian@1stsafetysolutions.co.uk