RoSPA’s young workers website – www.youngworker.co.uk - aims to provide an online resource to anyone with the responsibility for young people in the workplace and to young people themselves. It has been produced mainly, but not exclusively, for three groups of people: young people who are involved in work experience programmes or are about to start work for the first time, employers and work experience organisers. Other professionals and those concerned or interested in the health, safety and welfare of young people, including parents and guardians, may also find this web site helpful.

This new DVD is ideal for young workers, including students about to embark on work experience. Via humorous animation it underlines the importance of health and safety training for young workers, who are 40 times more likely to have a workplace accident than their older colleagues. Available for just £150+VAT this DVD is an excellent addition to your organisation’s induction programme.

To purchase ‘Adam’s First Day’ please call 0121 248 2233, or click here to buy online

Based on experience and feedback RoSPA has developed a unique delegate centred approach to the NEBOSH National Diploma. We encourage high levels of participation via the inclusion of a variety of learning styles:

- Workshops
- Discussion groups
- Student presentations

All trainers are CMIOSH/FIOSH qualified and hold the City & Guilds 7407 teaching qualification. In addition, the course is further enhanced via guest speakers who offer expertise on particular areas of the syllabus.  To find out more about RoSPA’s approach, and the next course which starts in January, click here or call 0121 248 2233.

RoSPA’s unique Abrasive Wheel Setters' course encourages hands-on learning. Our Birmingham based training facility contains fixed pedestal grinders and hand held grinders to replicate the workplace, which allows delegates to see how to mount abrasive wheels correctly in a realistic work environment. In addition, the course considers:

PPE, how to correctly adjust guards, how wheels are attached and how wheels are balanced How to inspect wheels for damage, how to store them correctly and how to interpret wheel markings The importance of being fully aware of the hazards of using abrasive wheels and how to proactively identify hazards when using them Awareness of relevant legislation Relevant British Standards

Call 0121 248 2233 to reserve your place!

Last year British industry alone lost 125,000 working days through industrial accidents at an estimated cost of £35m. A high price to pay when up to 90% of accident victims say their accident was avoidable.

The Behavioural Safety Conference is a unique opportunity to:

Hear about best practice and learn about some of the real challenges with behavioural safety such as securing buy-in from board level directors to the newest recruit. Learn how other organisations have cut their accident rates by up to 90%. Hear from the ‘horse’s mouth’ what really happens when a behavioural safety programme is introduced into an organisation.

For further information please visit www.rospa.com/behavioural

Staying Alive is a unique quarterly magazine covering all aspects of home, water and leisure safety.  Regular topics include: latest statistics, legislation, new British and EU standards, product recalls, playgrounds, leisure facilities, dangerous sports, forthcoming conferences and campaigns.

Find out more about the journal and how to subscribe

According to CBI 2005 statistics, sickness absence costs:

UK Plc's over £12 billion a year Employers £495 a year in direct costs for every worker employed (Indirect costs are probably considerably more).

Long-term sickness absence can have devastating effects on the performance of your business and the health and well-being of your employees.

Dr Keith Wiley, Policy Advisor, HSE will lead the 'managing sickness absence and return to work' discussion table at RoSPA’s Safety Awareness Exchange.

Don’t miss this opportunity to review and update your policies, receive guidance on legal issues and compare and benchmark with fellow professionals.

To book your place visit www.rospa.com/safetyexchange

Increasingly, companies are contracting out not only specialised work, but often some core activities, to independent contracting companies. In order to comply with legislation and demonstrate due diligence, companies need to ensure that contractors are suitably selected and controlled. RoSPA can provide assistance, from advising on the selection process and developing management controls, to carrying out detailed health and safety management audits of potential or existing contractors to help clients ensure that contracted work is carried out in a safe and diligent manner.

Click here to request more information

With fireworks going on sale throughout the country this weekend, RoSPA is urging adults to do everything possible to reduce the toll of injuries among children and teenagers. Last year 990 people needed hospital treatment for firework injuries during the four-week period around bonfire night – and more than half of them were under the age of 18.

By law no one under 18 can buy fireworks or even carry them in a public place. A curfew makes it illegal to set off fireworks after 11pm (midnight on November 5). This can play an important part in stopping some of the accidents with fireworks when people leave public houses, as well as reducing noise nuisance.

People should not be tempted to buy from street traders or at car boot sales, which will not be properly registered and could be selling dangerous fireworks. It is vitally important to adhere to the instructions on the box and not to use fireworks if safe distances cannot be kept between yourself and the fireworks.

For more information and the firework code visit: www.rospa.com/homesafety/advice/fireworks/ or see www.dti.gov.uk/fireworks

RoSPA is urging people to make the Government see the light over the way Britain changes its clocks in a bid to save 450 deaths and serious injuries on the roads each year.

Every Autumn when the clocks go back, deaths and injuries on the road increase. Rather than going back, RoSPA wants the UK clocks to stay one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time in the winter. In essence, this change would mean moving an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening so that it would not go dark so early in the winter.

This would lead to around 450 fewer deaths and serious injuries, including between 104 and 138 fewer deaths. This would also include 41 fewer deaths and serious injuries in Scotland.

Government Ministers have accepted the road safety arguments for a change, but they remain unconvinced that there is enough public support for a new system. We need people to demonstrate that they do think it is a good idea and back our call for a three-year time trial which would prove the benefits. Find out more...

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