If you are about to drive a long distance to your holiday destination or drive as part of your holiday, RoSPA’s advice will help you to ensure that your holiday is not ruined by an easily preventable road accident. Click here to find out more about preparing yourself, your route, your vehicle and your passengers.

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Cardiff University is running a new study, funded by IOSH, about occupational health and safety culture, advice and performance. They are looking for organisations from all sectors to take part. All participants will receive feedback from the HSE measurement tools used in the project.

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Subscribe to RoSPA’s full-colour sixty-page Occupational Safety & Health Journal and receive an annual subscription to sister newspaper, Safety Express absolutely FREE! RoSPA’s monthly OSH Journal is perfect for safety practitioners whilst Safety Express covers the safety issues that affect all employees. Both publications form part of the RoSPA Membership package and Members benefit from reduced rate additional subscriptions.

If you’re looking for interim cover whilst you recruit a permanent member for your health and safety team, or are looking for a qualified and experienced professional to carry out a specific project, then RoSPA’s Interim Consultancy Service could prove the ideal solution.

EssentialSkillz range of safety awareness screensavers use the same distinctive graphics and style that illustrate their award-winning courseware to create highly effective tools for increasing safety awareness in your organisation. Click here to download free safety screensavers on topics from DSE to Stress!

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Alcohol can stay in your blood overnight making you over the limit the following morning. Indeed, almost 1 in 5 of those convicted of drink driving are on their way to, or actually at, work the following day. Remind your employees of the need to ‘think before you drink’ with RoSPA’s ‘morning after’ poster

Asbestos remains the single biggest cause of work related deaths in the UK. RoSPA’s one-day course enables those responsible for the building, repair and maintenance of commercial properties to identify and deal with asbestos, and meet their legal ‘Duty to Manage’. Book by the end of September and save 15%!

This year at the National Water Safety Congress there will be a unique opportunity to witness how the fire service has responded to their expanded role for water rescue. There will be a demonstration of water rescue by Worcester Fire and Rescue Service by the River Avon at the conference.

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Babysitting Guidance

Being a babysitter means that you have someone else’s life in your hands and that in itself is a tremendous responsibility. Having to look after one or more children can be tiring, frustrating and sometimes difficult to cope with - even for experienced adults.

When you consider the number of parents who engage babysitters and the number of babysitters who look after children, the disasters are few. But leaving children in the hands of other children increases the risk of harm being realised. RoSPA’s Babysitting Guidance can help both parents and babysitters.

As the government publishes its Bill to reform the law on corporate manslaughter find out the full impact on organisations from top barrister Gerard Forlin, singled out as an expert in the field of corporate manslaughter. Book your place on this essential event for more information on:

The effects of the new bill on fleets How the evidence works Corporate responsibility Duty of care – who’s responsible? Macrory review

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