by jtrgroup | Sep 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
There is a point in a growing business where health and safety stops fitting into someone’s spare afternoon. It usually arrives alongside a second site, a bigger client, a new process, or a headcount that has quietly doubled. The question that follows is whether...
by jtrgroup | Sep 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
An injury announces itself. Someone is hurt, an ambulance is called, an investigation begins, and everyone in the building knows about it by the end of the shift. Occupational ill health does none of that. Hearing loss develops over years. Hand-arm vibration syndrome...
by jtrgroup | Sep 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
The North West has one of the densest concentrations of manufacturing, logistics and engineering businesses in the country. The corridor running from Warrington and Widnes through Runcorn, Trafford Park and out towards Wigan and St Helens is full of firms employing...
by jtrgroup | Sep 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most businesses understand that a health and safety prosecution is expensive. Far fewer have budgeted for the invoice that can arrive without any prosecution at all. The Fee for Intervention scheme has been in place since October 2012 and allows the HSE to recover the...
by jtrgroup | Sep 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
If an HSE inspector walked into your factory tomorrow, what would they head for first? Ten years ago the answer was reasonably predictable: guarding, work at height, forklift segregation. Those still matter enormously. But the regulator’s centre of gravity has...
by jtrgroup | Sep 9, 2026 | Uncategorized
Ask ten business owners who their appointed competent person is and you will get four confident answers, three uncertain ones, and three people who look it up afterwards. It is one of the most widely held duties in health and safety law and one of the most casually...
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