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Workplace Health & Safety

Staying Sharp: Why Keeping Up to Date is Essential for Health and Safety Professionals

4 June 2025
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Categories: Blog, Health & Safety Advice, Health & Safety Training, Workplace Health & Safety

CPD Blog Neil

 

In the fast-moving world of health and safety, standing still means falling behind. Laws can change regularly, best practices get better, and new dangers pop up all the time. For those of us working in health and safety, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) isn’t just something you schedule; it should be how we think every day.

Whether you’ve built your expertise in public industries or like me come from the military, the drive to keep learning is part of everything we do. This blog looks at why CPD matters for health and safety professionals, what good it does, how we can get involved, and why it’s more than just a planned event.

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New Fire Fighting Foam Regulations Coming into Force – Are your Extinguishers Still Legal?

24 March 2025
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Categories: Blog, Latest News, Workplace Health & Safety

CO2 and Foam fire extinguishersIf you have firefighting extinguishers in your workplace that contain foam (known as AFFF – aqueous film-forming foams), you will need to ensure that by 4 July 2025, they do not contain PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid and its derivatives).

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New Simpler Recycling Rules come into Force this March – Is your Business Ready?

6 February 2025
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waste separated into different coloured bins, glass, paper, plastic and food wasteHow good is your business at recycling? Whilst many companies have made efforts over the last few years to separate general waste and recyclable items, it is now going to be a legal requirement to do so when the new Simpler Recycling Law comes into force on 31 March 2025 (31 March 2027 for Micro-Businesses).

Applicable to all workplaces, businesses and non-domestic premises, Simpler Recycling will make it mandatory that all waste is separated in accordance with their waste collector’s provision.

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What is Safe365 and How Can it help my Business’ Health and Safety?

5 October 2023
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Categories: Blog, General blog, Health & Safety Advice, Workplace Health & Safety

Safe365 management reporting screenClients often ask us at Sureteam to help them ensure that all areas of their health and safety are up to scratch and compliant. In order to assess this, we carry out an audit and check all the processes and procedures are in place to make sure that appropriate risk management is taking place and hazards are minimised.

Our ultimate aim as consultants is to help the business embed a culture of safety across the organisation, so that everyone is aware of how they play their part in assessing risks and mitigating them.

For larger organisations we use Safe365, a cost-effective and easy to use digital health and safety management tool. It enables H&S teams to manage health and safety across the organisation producing clear visual graphs and reports on how mature each area of the business is.

Sureteam is one of just a handful of health and safety consultancies in the UK that are a Safe365 Premium Partner, fully trained to set up and use Safe365 alongside or on behalf of our clients. Read on to find out how it could help your business.

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DSE Assessments: How often should they be completed?

31 October 2022
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Categories: Blog, Health & Safety Advice, Occupational Health, Workplace Health & Safety

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Businesses and employees are working more flexibly that ever. In the wake of the global COVID pandemic it is now commonplace for employees to work both at the office and at home in any given week, or to have even opted to be entirely remote working.

With this, comes an increasing need for both employers and employees to be aware of the risks of prolonged use of Display Screen Equipment (DSE) and have the knowledge and ability to carry out a DSE assessment of their working environment and get help to rectify any issues identified wherever they are located.

In this blog, we look at how frequently a DSE assessment should be carried out and some of the common triggers for reassessment.

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