Don’t Wedge Your Fire Doors Open. Fire doors are installed in order to protect commercial properties from the spread of fire and smoke in the event of a blaze. Stemming the spread of fire by compartmentalising rooms and corridors from one another increases the chances that the fire will be contained in a single area, making it more manageable to tackle and decreasing the overall damage incurred. There is one potential downside of fire doors though – if they’re not closed they’re not going to do their job. The problem is that fire doors are often very heavy, cumbersome and […]
Top 10 Health and Safety Tips For Scaffolders
Graham Greaves, Director of health & Safety Services at Ellis Whittam outlines how the British Chambers of Commerce report “Health and Safety – A Risky Business” released today suggests that health and safety legislation has gone too far, is increasingly burdensome to business and applied ‘indiscriminately and unintelligently’ to low risk businesses. The report asks for simplification and consolidation of regulations, to prevent health and safety becoming a barrier to growth and a distraction to creating employment. Efforts to simplify and balance how we approach health and safety for CA businesses can only be welcomed. It is unreasonable, in any […]