Safety Direct2U News

Merry Christmas – Opening Times

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Direct2U! We would like to wish all of our customers a very Merry Christmas and a happy 2016 from everyone at Direct2U. 2015 has been an exciting year for us, with the addition of new features to our website and more products which we hope you have all benefited from and we can’t wait to see what 2016 will bring! Here, like many others, we are looking forward to the festive period and would like to remind everyone that our offices will be closed for the holidays. Our offices will… Read more

New Health and Safety App is a Success

The new RNF Digital Innovation health and safety app has been met with great success, with many businesses downloading the free app in the first week since its launch. It has quickly become one of the top ten most downloaded business apps in the UK. What does the SME Safety Wizard app do? RNF Digital Innovation has developed the app to help small and medium sized business meet health and safety requirements. The information in the app has been directly taken from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Toolbox Guidance which addresses all the most common workplace hazards. The HSE… Read more

New Year – New HSE Appeal

HSE Puts Safety First

HSE have started off the New Year by making a fresh appeal to reduce the number of deaths and accidents in the workplace. The new HSE appeal has been released to mark the HSE’s 40th anniversary. They hope to reiterate the importance of workplace safety and encourage employees across England and Scotland to make the wellbeing of the employee the priority this year. What difference have the HSE made? Since the HSE were established in January 1975 they have made an enormous impact on workplaces across the UK, enforcing the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974). This act is… Read more

HSE: Firm sentenced after Forklift Incident

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HSE has released information about a Scottish firm which has been fined for safety failings after an employee was seriously injured by a forklift. The incident occurred when the driver of the forklift truck reversed and then moved forward, which resulted in a collision with the employee concerned who was walking backwards at the time. The HSE investigation into the incident found that they had failed to ‘provide sufficient segregation between pedestrians and vehicles’ and that they had also failed to provide ‘sufficient instruction to control vehicle movements in the area while pedestrian were working’. The dangers of warehouse vehicles… Read more