Managing a site is a vital role in the construction industry, where safety is a key issue – that needs a lot of attention! As the site manager, it’s your job to both assess and manage safety hazards in the workplace. Responsibilities may also include managing and instructing the site workers, setting goals for the… Read More
The three principles of first aid are the responsibilities you must recite when completing a first aid course. It’s integral knowledge to know when responding to an emergency. We always remember that the ultimate goal is to save lives – something these 3 guiding principles will help you achieve. What is first aid? First aid… Read More
Our next SMSTS course is on June 16th. As such, we thought we’d compile a list of reasons why you may benefit from a SMSTS course. The UK construction industry is one of many facing a skills shortage, and one of the areas that’s lacking is management. While there’s a lot to the role, a… Read More
Lockdown was a challenging time for all of us, for a variety of reasons, but there was some good to come from the time we spent cooped up indoors. Hobbies flourished, new skills were learned, friendships were reforged – albeit on Zoom – and DIY is now more popular than ever. Yet that newfound… Read More
Winter is well and truly with us, and with it come a host of seasonal activities. The environmental changes around us affect the places we work, and this can have a knock-on effect to health and safety – particularly if you haven’t made any accommodations for them. The lower temperatures and longer days completely change… Read More
If you thought asbestos was a settled issue, think again. While the majority of countries worldwide have long since banned the substance, some of the biggest nations keep using and producing it. Perhaps the most egregious is India, which continues to import asbestos at a startling rate, with the bulk of it coming from Russia,… Read More
Since lockdown SAMS have been running a large number of training courses remotely over ZOOM, 5 years later it’s shown to be such a popular and effective way of learning that it is now our most popular way of delivering our courses. Our experienced tutors took to this way of working and we quickly adapted… Read More
It’s 2023, and an opportunity to start the New Year with new beginnings. Each year is an opportunity to refresh, and for us to step back and reassess what went right and wrong last year, and realign the goals we are heading towards. Where do you want to go? What do you want to do?… Read More
There wasn’t any absence of evidence about the scale of asbestos use around the UK before, as we’ve written about on several occasions. However, the latest news around asbestos in the UK is particularly shocking, as it highlights something many people suspected: that the approach to ‘manage’ asbestos is failing, and that asbestos is too… Read More
We’ve discussed just about every location and source of asbestos on this blog over the years, from fake snow to ironing boards and toilet seats. Some kinds are now just historical curios, unlikely to be seen again. Others, such as the asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) in houses, workplaces and outbuildings, remain a very real and present… Read More