The new reality of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors on a massive scale, yet this impact is felt differently across global and UK businesses. While many organisations have faced unprecedented challenges leading to downscaling and redundancy mitigations, others have had the unique opportunity for significant growth. In both cases, companies that have historically …
COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on our private and professional lives and many organisations are continuing to assess what this means for their respective industries. One thing has become clear, that COVID-19 has brought greater focus on the need to provide a safe working environment moving forward within a ‘new normal’. To compete in …
The new reality of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all sectors on a massive scale, and yet this impact continues to be felt differently across industries and UK businesses. While many organisations have faced unprecedented challenges leading to downscaling and redundancy mitigations, others have had the unique opportunity for significant growth. In both cases, companies …
The pandemic has led to many employees working from home in remote teams for the first time. Due to this sudden and unexpected change, managers are challenged with trying to work out how to keep their team members on task best, connected and engaged with the broader business. Even those organisations that have an established …
Developing a safety culture is a long game as is all sustainable behavioural change. For the leadership to be proactive and model values and drive continuous improvement they need visibility of the status and issues across the business landscape. Training is, of course, important, but it needs to be targeted and applied systematically addressing knowledge …
Recent cases of food safety breakdown have been truly shocking. They have been shocking for the unsuspecting victims and their bereaved or anxious families, shocking for the employees whose jobs are now at risk and shocking for employers whose business premises are now closed whilst under investigation. Perhaps most shocking of all though is that …
A serious workplace injury or death changes lives forever, the human loss and suffering are immeasurable. Whatever the nature of an accident the business impact can be extremely damaging. Accidents can negatively impact employee morale and cause reputational damage. Financial losses may result from delay, equipment damage or legal penalties. Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) forms …