Is the safety of footballers being put at risk?

It’s hard to feel sorry for footballers. Yet the conditions they work under have changed substantially over the past decade, both in the men’s and women’s game. The various organisations in charge of club and international football are determined to add more fixtures to the calendar, and players are being overloaded—to the extent that some… Read More

Someone learning remotely using Zoom

What our Zoom survey says about remote learning

Health & safety changed quite a lot for everyone in 2020. As well as our personal safety, the wave of lockdown restrictions also meant that businesses like ours couldn’t function the same as before. With falling demand for our classroom courses (before they were halted altogether), we had to think on our feet to keep… Read More

7 Flagrant Health and Safety Breaches In Game Of Thrones

Game of Thrones is a great show, but Westeros is a health and safety firm’s worst nightmare. From rickety castles to dodgy cooking, the average episode makes us more nervous than the Hound on Bonfire night. Here are just eight lessons the characters could learn from our various courses, in order to bring down that… Read More

Our IOSH Managing Safely course is changing

IOSH Managing Safely – Same Course Lower Cost.  SAMS Ltd are reducing the length of the IOSH Managing Safely course from 4 days to 3. Why? Because IOSH have reduced the running hours of the course from 25 to 22, by removing the environmental element, this has significantly reduced the overall time and has increased… Read More

Differing health and safety approaches around the world

    Health and safety varies all over the globe, with experts estimating that 6,300 people die daily due to workplace accidents. This equates to around 317 million accidents happening whilst people are at work. It’s therefore very important to be educated in the best health and safety practices. Differing practices Health and safety overall… Read More

Event safety lessons we need to learn

At SAMS Ltd we complete a lot of work around outdoor events and as such this brings us into regular contact with local authorities and blue light services whose only interest in the event is around licensing conditions and public safety. Having the same objectives, we have no problem with this but we regularly cross… Read More