A new suite of specialist food safety services - including a three tiered food accreditation audit scheme, food safety consultancy and training courses has been launched by one of the UK’s leading risk management consultancies...

Health and Safety Risk Management solutions from Santia, provide sensible advice & practical cost effective solutions that improve business performance.

As a result of the long-awaited independent review of health and safety legislation by Professor Ragnar E Löfstedt, the government will begin a consultation process on consolidating large numbers of health and safety regulations.

If a business has done all that is reasonable to comply with the law, and yet, despite their best efforts an accident occurs, they may be justified in feeling that they shouldn’t be subject to any legal action.  If it wasn’t...

We recently discussed that like buses, there were three major health and safety changes coming along at the same time. Well, it seems that one of those buses is delayed and will not be arriving for several months. To put the...

Health and Safety Risk Management solutions from Santia, provide sensible advice & practical cost effective solutions that improve business performance.

Spending by large UK firms on energy, environment and sustainability initiatives will grow at an average of 16% a year between 2012 and 2015, according to a new market forecast from independent analysts. The growth in...

Health and Safety Risk Management solutions from Santia, provide sensible advice & practical cost effective solutions that improve business performance.

Businesses frequently tie themselves in knots over the issue of Portable Appliance Testing.  It’s a common occurrence for small firms to be called up and told that they must do a particular thing (such as engage the services of...

It may be hard to believe, but not everyone finds health and safety interesting and exciting.  There are even some people out there to whom health and safety means very little, and might go out of their way to completely...

At a recent Health and Safety Executive board meeting, it was announced that the award winning Hidden Killer campaign would be relaunched in 2012. The decision to resurrect the asbestos awareness campaign has been welcomed by...

2011 saw some major developments for the world of workplace compliance, with the publication of Professor Lofstedt’s report “Reclaiming Health and Safety for All”, being possibly the most significant. Other important events in...

It’s interesting to note how Responseline, Santia’s technical adviceline, can act as a barometer for what’s troubling employers across the country.  Whenever new legislation is announced, or guidance is been revised, queries...

Earlier this year the government established an independent review of health and safety legislation.  Since its announcement, there has been feverish speculation as to what Professor Ragnar Löfstedt will recommend.  Initially...