EMPLOYING CONTRACTORS –
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HEALTH & SAFETY?
It is a commonly held misconception that when you employ a contractor to carry out work on your site, you effectively ‘sign over health and safety of the work to them’. After all, they’re the professionals, aren’t they? Or are they? How do you know? You might think that when you employ a builder, you’re […]
Changes to Statement of Fitness for Work (“Fit Notes”)
The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 comes into effect from 1st July 2022.This means that more health professionals have been given the power to certify and issue a Statement of Fitness for Work (“Fit Notes”) to Employees who are absent from work because of sickness.Employees […]
Pregnant Workers and Risk Assessment
The HSE have updated their guidance in relation to Employers now having a legal duty to carry out an assessment considering the risks to women of childbearing age as part of the General Risk Assessment.In addition, you must carry out a Personal Risk Assessment for the individual as soon as they have informed you in […]
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
(Be Careful What You Say …)
An Employment Tribunal has ruled that calling a man ‘bald’ at work was a violation of his dignity and amounted to sexual harassment.An electrician worked for his employer for 24 years before he was dismissed.The electrician claimed he was a victim of sexual harassment, due to comments made about his lack of hair. The electrician […]
IOSH MANAGING SAFELY® TRAINING COURSE
Brush up on your Health and Safety Skills
We are hosting another IOSH Managing Safely® Training Course, in advance of the summer holidays. This will be held on Wednesday, 22nd and 29th June and 6th July 2022. It will be a 3-day course held at our training facilities located at Airport West in Yeadon close to Leeds/Bradford Airport.SPECIAL OFFER: £350.00 + VAT per person providing you […]
SENTIENT ARE FUNDRAISING FOR
SUE RYDER MANORLANDS HOSPICE
Following the success of last year’s fundraising event, where Fiona and Paul bravely leaped from Ilkley’s landmark Cow and Calf Rock on a zip wire, we have two more Charity Events that we will be fundraising for this year.On 29th June, Paul, Catherine and Juliette, with colleagues from Eatons, will be doing the Paint Rush […]
FACE MASKS
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE)
Are you protecting employees effectively from harmful dusts?If one of your control measures is the use of disposable respirators (face masks) then it is important for you to check that you are providing the right equipment. Since the start of the Covid Pandemic, there has been a shortage of respirators; resulting in the market being […]
COVID-19
APRIL UPDATE
Managing COVID-19 in the workplace now that most restrictions have been lifted – what do you need to do?Risk AssessmentThe requirement for every employer to explicitly consider COVID-19 in their Health and Safety Risk Assessment has been removed. Employers may choose to continue to cover COVID-19 in their Risk Assessments. (Employers that specifically work with […]
BUSINESS IMMIGRATION
On 15th March, the Home Office published its Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules providing further details of several new business immigration routes including:High Potential Individual (HPI) RouteScale-up Route (New)Global Business Mobility Routes (New)In summary:High Potential IndividualsApplicants who have graduated from a “top global university” will be able to come to the UK without […]
NATIONAL LIVING/MINIMUM WAGE
AND STATUTORY RATE INCREASES
Below is a summary of the changes to the National Living Wage/National Minimum Wage and the statutory rates that take effect in April. REMINDER – INCREASE IN NATIONAL INSURANCE AND DIVIDEND TAXFollowing the Autumn 2021 Budget, National Insurance Contributions (NICs) will rise on 6 April 2022 as part of the Government’s funding of the NHS […]
