Aberscot Health & Safety Consultancy

Why do you need Fire Risk Assessment

The reasons why you need a fire risk assessment of your property can be to:

• Identify any potential fire threats and concerns
• Reduce the dangers as low as you can.
• You must also examine the measures to take to protect the safety of individuals on and around your property.
• You need to ensure that important measures are supplied and installed, including escape routes, lighting, training, etc.

The fire risk assessment can reduce the chance of fire starting on site.

Amazing pictures showing the before and aftereffects from the River Dee at Riverside Drive water rising onto the paths and fields alongside the River Dee.

Driving up Aberdeen city center and just missed car crash.

Into Dublin and parked up in one of the car parks with metal sliding gate to get in. The parking is on slope and asked one of the security guards why it’s like that and it’s to do with the rain and how it’s easier to run off. Fantastic way to stop flooding and environmentally friendly and global warning aware!

Into Edinburgh and parking up in the city center and do not park in the motor bike spaces or you will be towed away as seen by the speed of arrival and away with your vehicle.

Love the use of the banana for slip, trip an falls.

The Working at Height Regulations are designed to prevent death and injury from falls at Height

• do as much work as possible from the ground.
• ensure workers can get safely to and from where they work at height.
• ensure equipment is suitable, stable and strong enough for the job, maintained and checked regularly.
• not overload or overreach when working at height.
• take precautions when working on or near fragile surfaces.

If you cannot avoid working from height, you will as a result take a PREVENT or MINIMISE approach to your work. This means either putting the systems in place to PREVENT a fall or to MINIMISE its risk.

ISO 45001 the new standard replacing OHSAS 18001.

ISO 45001 is the new international standard for occupational health and safety (OH&S) management and will replace the existing OHSAS 18001 standard.

ISO 45001 is based on the same high-level structure as the quality and environmental management system standards, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015, so for organisations who use those standards the new structure and common features of ISO 45001 will be familiar.

What are the benefits of using ISO 45001?

It helps organisations improve their OSH performance by:

- developing and implementing OSH policies and objectives
- establishing systematic processes
- determining hazards and eliminating or controlling them
- establishing operational controls
- evaluating performance
- ensuring workers take an active role

The final version of the standard is due to be published in March 2018.

Aberscot wishing you a very Happy New Year. If part of your 2018 plans is to look for any Health and Safety advice we are here to help.

Best Wishes for a successful 2018.

From the Aberscot Team - to all our past, present and future clients and friends everywhere...

Merry Christmas and Happy 2018!

To our Spanish friends!

Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Aberscot Team who made 2016 a positive year for the company.

Aberscot looks forward to working productively with them all in 2017, and we wish everyone a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year.

Best wishes,

Cecil Burnett
Aberscot

24th June 2016
Week two - GC2 for the NEBOSH National General Certificate course in Runcorn, England.

We can also arrange the 2 week, 2 days revision and exam day NEBOSH National General Certificate course anywhere in the UK for any company that has 10 or more delegates that require training.

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