Business entrepreneur Kevin Parkin: Finalist to the top 100 manufacturing businessmen 2017, made four major references to Health and Safety (H&S) in his presentation to the Sheffield Manufacturers Group last week. Mr Parkin, famous for turning around some large, hopeless and failing businesses, started off his presentation by stating that the number one thing when taking over a failing business is to sort out the health and safety before any other aspect of the business. He p

Most manufacturers have problems trying to prevent their staff slowly developing Upper Limb Disorders (ULD’s) over time. Unfortunately as it’s generally not regarded as a critical safety issue, (where organisations tend to jump to attention immediately following an accident or invest plenty of resources preventing them happening in the first place), ULD’s and their causes tend to be put onto the back burner. As they say, “We scream Safety but only whisper ill health” when sta