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Peak HSE's students achieved a 100% pass rate for the NEBOSH National General Certificate in their November 2012 exams, with 62% of our students gaining Distinctions and 38% gaining Credits. The average pass rate for such exams is around 65 - 70%...Peak HSE achieved 100%. An average of 2% of candidates achieve Distinctions...At Peak HSE , 62% achieved Distinctions. An average of...

 Britain’s manufacturers must get to grips with the European rules on the restriction or banning of certain hazardous substances, or face the prospect of unlimited fines or a custodial sentence if found to be in breach of the law. The warning shot was delivered by EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, following a survey that highlighted a strikingly low level of awareness about the...

New Government proposals were published on 17th January, to help businesses manage sickness absence. Dame Carol Black and David Frost CBE were commissioned in 2011 to take a critical look at sickness absence in Britain. The Department for Work and Pensions published its response to their recommendations. Among plans outlined by the DWP are: - A new state-funded Independent Assessment Service...

Onerous health and safety regulations are partly responsible for discouraging businesses from offering work-experience placements to young people, David Cameron has told an audience of small-business leaders.The prime minister gave the assessment recently at a PM Direct event at the University of Central Lancashire, in Preston. The event was staged to promote the Government’s Start-Up Loans...

HSE recently completed a review of Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks over the past ten years that reveals common failings in control and a potential risk of further legionella outbreaks, such as those in Edinburgh and Stoke in 2012. The review highlighted a range of failures e.g: departures from planned maintenance schedules (allowing plant conditions to get worse, and longer periods for...

 A West Midlands steel company has been ordered to pay more than £146,000 in fines and costs after one of its employees was crushed to death by a 15-tonne crane. Wilfred Williams, 57, of Tividale, Warley, was carrying out maintenance on an overhead travelling crane at C Brown & Sons (Steel) Ltd in Dudley when the incident occurred on 27 May 2011. He was working six-and-a-half metres...