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Health and Safety

Is Health and Safety such a dirty word?

 

Health and Safety


Mention Health and Safety and Im sure those of you reading this are no different to the people attending our courses and cringe in dread.  But why? Health and Safety has been in the workplace for all my working life and Im sure most of yours. Admitedly I cant remember Health and Safety being big in the 80s or early 90s but now it is unrecognisable from the introduction on the Health and Safety at Work Act in 1974. Read the rest of this entry »

Knife Crime

Labour have called for knife crime to be treated in the same was as gun crime. They want anyone convicted of knife crime to face a custodial sentence except in the most exceptional of circumstances. This comes in the wake of the Scottish Parliamentary legislation to tackle the problem which Labour blasted an unacceptable failure

We make the same point we made on Jan 02 2010 that where are all these Prison places going to come from to deal with the problem? It is ridiculous that knife crime is treated less severely than gun crime and yet statistically you are more likely to die from a single stab wound than a gunshot wound.

You only have to look at the figures we published on the 02 Jan to see the scale of the problem facing the Criminal Justice System. While action groups have welcomed the latest move, logistically it is doomed to failure in our opinion.

It is a sad indictment of our society that people feel the need to carry knives and we believe the only way the problem is going to be tackled is by the police introducing beat officers in all areas. Beat officers are seldom seen on housing estates and any contact with the police is going to be seeing them drive or ride by. This style of policing is not getting to communities and the areas that need it. The ploice have a difficult job and it is up to the Government to  put its hand in its pocket and make cash available to recruit.

Door Supervisors slammed in The Publican

Door Supervisors have been slammed in “The Publican” for humiliating young people. and potentially harming pub business.

The claims came from Robert Humphrey’s, Chairman of the Proof of Age Standard Scheme (PASS) as a result of feedback received by PASS scheme members. He said some door staff are behaving “outrageously

He said the problems came from venues where the Door Supervisors were left to their own devices but he praised Wetherspoons for embracing the PASS scheme.

In our view Door Supervisors have a difficult job. if under age people are found or injured on licensed premises then it can mean the licence will be revoked so they try as hard as possible to ensure no under age people gain entry. The PASS cards have in the past been open to abuse and have easily been doctored.

Door Supervisors are employed to decide on the suitability of people entering licenced premises. Just because a person has ID does not automatically give them right of entry. Of course the people who have complained were the salt of the Earth when Door Staff confronted them and didn’t give the Door Staff verbal abuse………