Is yours a growing business with under 250 staff?
You can walk away with answers to all your health and safety problems in less than an hour - all for free!

RoSPA's Growing Business Advice clinic offers participants the opportunity to network with health and safety experts and fellow professionals, receive one-to-one advice, exchange ideas and experiences and learn about health and safety issues covering a wide range of sectors, legislation and HSE key issues relating to their own specific needs. A CMIOSH trained RoSPA professional consultant will be there to answer your health & safety questions and discuss topics of interest to growing businesses like yours.

Why attend?

Solve your health & safety problems: Are you and your team too busy growing your business to focus on Health & Safety? Let the RoSPA professionals guide you on the essentials at no cost and very little time. Win training or consultancy: If your team has little experience in health & safety you could win some free training or consultancy from RoSPA Network with similar growing businesses and share experiences. Learn about the health & safety legislation relevant to your business. Free entry into RoSPA’s Big Network Event. Free entry into Safety & Health Expo.

Entry is by pre-registration only so don’t miss out book your place today : www.rospa.com/growingbusiness

With Global Road Safety Week running between 23rd - 29th April make sure you have the tools to support your activities. RoSPA produce a wide range of comprehensive road safety resources aimed at supporting safer driving, safer cycling and safer pedestrians. So no matter who you are targeting RoSPA will have the resource to help you spread the safety message. 

This week, the first of its kind, is an opportunity to raise the issue of road traffic injuries to a higher level. It is expected that hundreds of initiatives will take place around the world, organised by United Nations, private companies and many other organisations. Click on the logo below to find out more information.

If you are running activities for Road Safety Week, make sure you get them listed on the RoSPA website.

There’s No Place Like Home

According to the HSE, the number of people working from home is on the increase.

However, as an employer don’t be caught out. Most of the regulations made under the Health and Safety at Work Act apply to home workers, as well as employees working at an employer’s workplace. First and foremost you must undertake a risk assessment of work activities carried out by home workers. Some common hazards to look for in clude:

Handling loads Using work equipment Using hazardous substances and materials Working with VDUs

RoSPA can provide  a range of training courses to help you mitigate the risk for home workers. Please click on the links above to find out more about our relevant training courses

Or Call: 0121 248 2105 (Birmingham), or 0131 449 9378 (Edinburgh)
Email: training@rospa.com

Don’t forget, as a Member one of the many benefits you can enjoy is 30 minutes free telephone consultancy.  We can answer almost any health and safety query and where necessary, recommend a tailored consultancy service for your organisation. 

You can request consultancy in areas such as fire risk assessment, accident investigation, managing occupational road risk or manual handling. A full list can be found here.

To request your free telephone consultancy, please complete the form within the Member Zone and we will arrange a suitable time for the call to take place.

As a growing business, there will be many competing pressures for your time – health and safety being a very important one. To help you through the legislative maze, over the coming weeks we will be running a special question and answers feature, providing expert advice on your health and safety hot topics.

Do I need to display any posters in the workplace?

Yes if you employ anyone, you must display the health and safety law poster (ISBN 0 7176 2493 5). Alternatively you can provide your employees with individual copies of the same information in a leaflet called “Your Health and Safety – a guide for workers'. The posters and leaflets are available from HSE Books.

Furthermore RoSPA has an unrivalled selection of workplace posters, plus DVD’s, publications and leaflets to help you reinforce your health and safety message.

Click here to visit our resources pages

Following the overwhelming success of RoSPA’s NEW Directors’ Health and Safety Responsibilities Conference we look forward to welcoming a highly influential delegate list. To find out just why so many delegates have already guaranteed their place and for your chance to network with over 300 senior personnel from a wide spectrum of UK businesses visit www.rospa.com/directorsduties

Ensuring workers have the right practical skills to do their job is not only a legal requirement, it is also vital in reducing accident costs and improving productivity.

With this in mind we have developed a series of practical skills training courses, particularly suitable for those in the manufacturing and the logistics sectors. Courses on offer include:

Power Press Tool Setters Abrasive Wheel Setters Abrasive Wheel Instructors Manual Handling and Postural Awareness Manual Handling Trainers and Assessors Manual Handling Risk Assessors Manual Handling Training for Logistics

For more information on how you can benefit from our unique training centre please click on the links above or phone for our practical skills courses leaflet.
Call: 0121 248 2233 (Birmingham) or 0131 449 9378 (Edinburgh)
Email: training@rospa.com

RoSPA's Volunteer Driver's Handbook is a new resource written for volunteer drivers, to highlight their duties and legal responsibilities. The handbook ensures the safety of the drivers and their passengers’ by following the policies set out by their voluntary organisation. It includes advice on:

The importance of safe driving Issues for the voluntary sector Driver impairment (fatigue, drink, drugs, eyesight, fitness, mobile phones, etc) Vehicle condition Speed management Route planning and weather conditions

The handbook should be used in conjunction with the organisation's own policies, by encouraging drivers to check the detail of their policies and write them into the spaces provided in the booklet. It is small enough to carry in the vehicle and is available to download for free on RoSPA’s website.  Voluntary organisations are also invited to request complimentary printed copies by simply emailing their requirements to : dvernon@rospa.com

Organisations wishing to share their latest news with the safety community can contact us for details on adding their message to Safety Connections, or sponsoring an issue.

RoSPA is an independent charity and a uniquely comprehensive safety organisation. As a RoSPA Member you will be supporting our mission to save lives through preventing accidents in all walks of life. RoSPA Members also enjoy a range of benefits to help you to achieve your own safety goals, so join RoSPA today and see how we can help you.

You can also support RoSPA by arranging fundraising activities, or through a simple donation. RoSPA also have many sponsorship opportunities.