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It is vital in the current climate that you ensure that your company has taken on the appropriate amount of health and safety training, with solicitors and employees only too willing to sue if they can find some form of loophole or hole in your defence. Ever since the no win, no fee companies sprung up from America employees have been only too willing to expose flaws in a company's lack of health and safety training standards. Obviously this isn't a problem for people who have genuine claims against the company. But like most of the rules and regulations that exist in society today there will be certain aspects who will try to swing the rules in their favour. I'm sure we have all meet someone in our professional career who likes to bend the rules to their advantage; you will often find that they have worked at several places and at each place they have experienced the same type of situation. To protect yourself it is important that you follow the appropriate health and safety training procedure to train your staff. When you get involved in a legal battle it is vital that you can prove that your company has made every effort to protect and instruct your staff on ways to handle themselves around the office. Everyone seems to assume that health and safety training is limited to lifting boxes and ensuring that you don't trip over stray wires. In actual fact there is a lot more detail that goes in to the standard health and safety course than you might initially think. Everything around the office has the potential to be a hazard and therefore requires some form of hazard assessment. If there is a potential that a piece of equipment that someone uses on a regular basis could cause them harm then consider making up a training course or hazard assessment to run them through the potential dangers. Obviously your aim is not to stop employees who have been injured from claiming money, but simply to protect them from the dangers in the first place and avoid any negative publicity on the company through negligence. Health and safety training can be performed by an external third party or by an internal officer who has achieved qualification from an approved body, either way make sure you and your company are covered in 2010 against any unnecessary scares or court cases. Conservo Safety Consultant provides Health and Safety Consultant Peterborough, courses for every business owners in Peterborough, Kings Lynn, Lincoln, Norfolk, Lincolnshire UK"
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