How is a business supposed to comply with the law if the rules keep changing?
This is a question which many health and safety managers have doubtless asked themselves from time to time. Health and safety legislation is a moving goal, so it’s vital that anyone with health and safety responsibilities stays up to date with the latest developments.
For example, one day, it’s a requirement to notify a tower crane - but the next it isn’t. One day, scalpings aren’t reportable but the next, they’re a reportable “specified” injury (if they require hospital treatment).
Clearly it’s important for firms to know about such changes so that they don’t inadvertently find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
It’s for this reason that Santia has been running a series of Legislative Update Seminars to help explain what’s been happening in the world of health and safety and how all the recent changes can affect you. The feedback from the seminars has been overwhelmingly positive, which shows just how hungry safety practitioners are for this kind of information.
With venues including the Williams F1 Conference Centre, the Kia Oval and the Museum of Science and Industry, delegates were provided with a vibrant backdrop in which to learn (and the opportunity to rub shoulders with a celebrity!).
Richard White, the group Health and Safety Training Manager at Saint-Gobain Building Distribution UK & Ireland, commented:
“My own view is that seminars such as this should be a MANDATORY element of all Health & Safety Practitioners busy diaries. I found the topics, along with the pace and manner in which it was delivered ideal for such a forum. Encapsulating key points and also enabling discussion from an enthusiastic audience is difficult at the best of times. Two words unfortunately often missing from H&S learning are ‘relevance and enjoyable’ – but not at this event.
“The Santia team should be congratulated after the delivery of such a professional day which I think also demonstrates the importance of training venue selection (it could not have got any better after we walked into Frank Williams).”
Staying up to date can often be difficult, but through our seminars, newsletters and social media output, Santia is making this easy.
Details of all Santia events and seminars can be found here.