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The law and the practice behind each discipline, written for the people who carry the duties: what the regulations require, what the guidance expects, and what actually goes wrong.
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Management · 6 minThe health and safety policy: what the law requires and what a good one containsSection 2(3) of the 1974 Act, the five-employee threshold, the three parts of a policy, the arrangements section inspectors read first, and who signs it.Read moreIncidents · 8 minAccident investigation: finding the root cause, not the person to blameThe HSG245 four-step approach, immediate, underlying and root causes, what RIDDOR requires and when, and the evidence to secure in the first hour.Read moreLeadership · 7 minThe directors’ role in health and safety: what the board is accountable forSection 37 personal liability, the HSE and IoD framework of plan, deliver, monitor and review, corporate manslaughter, sentencing, and what a board does.Read moreRisk management · 7 minRAMS that get read: risk assessments and method statements for the people doing the workWhat regulation 3 requires, why a method statement is practical rather than legal, the five steps, and how to write RAMS the workforce recognises.Read moreFire safety · 7 minWhat a fire risk assessment must cover, and when to review itThe responsible person, article 9 of the Fire Safety Order, the nine things every assessment must examine, the 2023 recording rule, and when to review.Read moreConstruction · 8 minCDM 2015 explained: the six duty holders and what each one must doWhat CDM 2015 requires of each of its six duty holders, when a project must be notified to the HSE, and the three documents every project turns on.Read more
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The guides explain the law; the record shows it applied.