Health and Safety Angels

Welcome to episode 17. We did it!! We made it to the end of the RIDDOR Regs. That was a hefty journey. Part 3 completes our coverage of these regulations. In this episode we discuss regulations 8 & 9 and of course a few discussions in between. We reiterate as we have said before, this podcast is based on our personal opinions. We are always happy to hear your opinions too - whether you agree o...

Welcome back to our continuing discussion on RIDDOR, this is part 2 covering regulations 5-7 - who knew RIDDOR could be so detailed!! There will also be a part 3 coming up next. This episode we carry on breaking down what each regulation means and helping you to understand the legal requirements when it comes to reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences. We hope you enjoy listening an...

Welcome to episode 15! This week we bring you a bumper episode, our longest, non special, yet. It is also a 2 parter due to the amount of info we have to share and some great real life examples. RIDDOR Regulations, The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases & Dangerous Occurrence Regulations 2013 broken down in to sections to discuss what each part means and requires of an employer. This first part i...

Welcome to episode 14! They are flying out now and we've had so much feedback from you lovely listeners as we work our way through the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974. This awesome episode features the fabulous Mary Lawrence, a H&S Lawyer/Partner with the firm Osbourne Clarke and we discuss all things prosecution related especially focusing on Section 37 of the HASAWA. She has some excell...

We're back! The past 2 episodes were special episodes which we hope you loved listening to but now you have got your angels in the hot seats again. This episode is moving on to section 7 of the HSAWA'74. As we've had a little gap in recording together... we ended up having a major chat about current topics and past incidents so it took 28 mins to get the section 7 but the chat is pretty informativ...

SPECIAL Episode!! Were bringing you another special episode, this time with Lynsey and a fabulous special guest. Dr. Stephanie Fitzgerald is a clinical psychologist and a neuropsychologist by specialism (a medical doctor who diagnoses and evaluates how the brain affects behavior) She is also the author of 'Reworked' - putting health and happiness at the centre of your career. Her focus is on looki...

The first special episode from us is an AMAZING story from survivor Joe Meanen, who worked on the Piper Alpha platform. The Piper Alpha oil rig was situated off Aberdeen, Scotland and was home to more than 200 men at a time. On a calm summer night in 1988, a gas leak caused a huge explosion that saw a fireball rip through the platform, killing 167 men. Joe Meanen was one of only 61 men to survive...

Welcome to episode 10. Exciting time... we're moving to a new section.. This is section 3, which is about duties of employers and self employed to people that aren't employees. We tend to focus on people within the business but we have a legal duty to ANYONE that can be affected by our business activities.. and rightly so. No one should be out and about, living their life and be injured or affecte...

Welcome to episode 9. We're continuing with section 2 and we're on to subsection 3. Whilst every section is important, this is a must know section due to the absolute duty involved here. We're discussing a Health & Safety Policy and your legal duty to produce one but it's not hard and there is a lot of support available. I always find that we get asked to read the H&S policy on induction b...

Welcome to episode 8!! My goodness we've got a bumper episode for you with section 2.2 of the HSAW'74! We continue the jargon busting with subsection 2 which puts additional specific duties on an employer to their employees. To see the legislation in full, visit legislation.gov.uk or search The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 on the HSE website. A quick reminder that as these episodes explain c...

It's time to get down to business!! This week we start our journey in to THE big boss of Health and Safety law. As we have mentioned, the law is broken down in to Acts and Regulations and we're breaking it down further by discussing section by section so that we can really understand what things mean. Section 2.1 of the HSAW'74 is duties that employers have to employees (1) It shall be the duty of...

We know that it is all pretty overwhelming! You have to comply with the law but you don't know what to do to comply, well there is help AND it's free!! This week we look at the HSE - The Health & Safety Executive. Here we discuss their primary goal and how you can access a ton of info to help you as a business or someone with H&S duties at work to find advice and guidance - but of course,...

So nice to see you back! Now we know why we bother with managing health and safety, it's time to see how it all works in terms of the law. What does the legal system look like? (you're in for a treat this week!) We'll introduce you to the H&S Jellyfish as a way of breaking down the system that is in place to ensure we have a benchmark to work to but of course, we don't want to sit at the bench...

A beautiful follow on to episode 3... here is 3.1 (but for tech reasons is actually episode 4 - we're still learning!) We're adding to the financial reasons in this episode, focus is on those hidden costs, the wider impact to the business. It is easy to spreadsheet a costing of physical items such as stock but when it comes to the impact of an incident, there is SO much that you just don't see and...

We're back with a much longer discussion on legal reasons and financial reasons to implement good health and safety management. Now, we didn't mean to but it's such a big topic!! so you get a full 50 minutes of joy this episode so you might need a rather large mug of tea this time. We're going to assume you started a business to make money or you're employed in a company whose goal is to be profit...

The journey starts here! We're on to episode 2 which is to discuss the first reason why we bother with health & safety. We have a frank discussion about the moral reason to engage with health and safety in the workplace and of course this is a bit longer than episode 1 because we can't half talk. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss anything you want to hear about or any topics we discu...

Welcome to episode 1! Our first episode is about why we're here and what’s our goal. There are a few bumps - it's a learning curve all this podcasting stuff but we're settling in and getting the discussion going - remember, it's completely unedited. If you want to get in touch, we're on email and instagram so far: healthandsafety.angels healthandsafetyangels@gmail.com So sit back, get comfy and en...

Welcome to Health and Safety Angels - a little introduction from us, Daisy Silcock & Lynsey Mason to let you know what to expect from our brand new podcast. Get in touch with us on healthandsafetyangels@gmail.com if there is anything you would love us to discuss.