Health & Safety

The General Medical Council (GMC) has published revised, expanded and re-organised guidance on confidentiality for all doctors practising in the UK. http://www.gmc-uk.org/news/29299.asp Staff training We continue to train our staff…

Introduction Accidents from poor manual handling techniques is attributed to around 30% of all accidents in the UK and approximately 11% of all manual handling accidents in the UK are…

Introduction As a social care provider part of your role as a manager will be to report accidents, incidents and near-misses. You may use a paper-based system or an online…

Mobile phones are everywhere. I remember a time when there was no such thing as a mobile phone and later when only the select few had one as it was…

Some practices will undertake risk assessments annually, whilst some practices undertake them daily and/or monthly. But why do we need to carry out risk assessments? It certainly shouldn’t be to…

A few years ago, I was asked by my boss, who was new to homecare, to write about what he called, Random Acts of Kindness. This was nothing to do…

The Control of Electromagnetic Fields at Work Regulations 2016 requires all employers to assess employees’ potential exposure to EMF (Electromagnetic Fields). If the levels of EMF are low and employees…

Flicking through the morning news on my phone, amongst all the political doom, was a video – ‘Do you know the six steps to clean hands?’. There was also a…