News from the ECITB regarding the CCNSG Safety Passport course. Train to Safety can announce we are able to provide test only facility, as an option to taking a full days renewal course from February 2019. The time to set aside for the test will be two hours and the price will be set at £70 per person. The delegate must book in with us and arrange for an appointment to attend our training Centre in Tapton Innovation Centre. The test will be completed on a standard laptop / co

Finally we can announce the location of our next Health and Safety seminar. We are excited to unveil that on the 16th May 2019 we will be at The Pumping House near Ollerton. We chose the venue for a number of reasons: Its picturesque and quiet location; its quirky and historic building; space to present and to break out; Its closed proximity and equidistant location from Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Chesterfield, Doncaster and all places in-between. We calculate anyone in th

We discuss communication all the time on our NEBOSH, IOSH and to some extent other courses too as part of the four ‘C’s to good Organisation. The others being control, co-operation and competence. However, most people find it hard to relate how communication really can affect health and safety management. There are always blank looks as many students consider why this matter seems to have such importance attached to it. I usually say it’s how an organisation considers the req

If asked “What makes you proud to be British?” many people might cite one of the great 19th Century military victories such as Waterloo or Trafalgar, or possibly Britain’s part in the defeat of fascism in WW2, the Battle of Britain being an obvious choice. Other suggestions might include the development of antiseptics and anaesthetics by British surgeons, or the Public Health Act of 1848 and the creation of the NHS in 1948. Then there are the breakthrough scientific discoveri

“The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is encouraging organisations to rely more on documents such as method statements instead of duplicating content in overly detailed risk assessment documents” IOSH Magazine January 2017. It’s good to hear HSE promoting Method Statements, though they do point out that it’s not a legal requirement to prepare them. We can probably all raise a cheer for a well-constructed, thoughtful method statement, but then, for the experienced worker,