And what a year has passed! It began in January with excitement preparing for the IOSH Managing Safety for Theatres and Production and what a success that was. Gaining accreditation and showing the theatre world the new product. Gaining Trade praise was praise indeed. Alongside this other opportunities were coming through allowing RB to work [...]
IOSH Launch part 2
The day of the launch arrived the planning, preparation and sleepless nights were over, the guest list was healthy, the support was fantastic and even the weather was good. RB was given first class hospitality from the Delfont Mackintosh theatre staff, the Bar in the Prince of Wales Theatre, was beautiful, staff were made available [...]
IOSH Launch part 1
IOSH Launch – part one preparation Well as a mother of two girls I am well used to planning great events from birthday parties to weddings and am glad to say all this experience came in very useful leading up to the launch on September 7th at the Prince of Wales Theatre. After months of [...]
What is health and safety
Not wanting to point out the obvious, but one question which has been asked of me on a few occasions is, what is health and safety?. Most of you reading this probably have a very good idea of what health and safety is, being that the subject has had a lot of publicity in [...]
Health and Safety Consultants Register
Following the review of the UK’s health and safety by Lord Young titled “Common Sense, Common Safety” (which can be found at http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/lord-young-report/ )it has been announced that there needs to be a way of checking that the advice your getting from health and safety consultants is appropriate. This has led to the introduction by the [...]
The stage newspaper run an article on our new IOSH “Managing Safely for Theatre and Production”.
Two weeks ago the stage newspaper run a story about our new “IOSH Managing Safely for Theatre and Production” which we are running in partnership with Cameron Mackintosh Limited and Delfont Mackintosh Theatres. This article has brought the course to the forefront of safety in the theatre industry. Attached below is a copy of the [...]
How do we ensure our Quality Assurance?
How do we ensure our Quality Assurance? For us to ensure we supply the service you require at the quality you expect, we have one or two Quality Assurance systems in place which I have listed below, but before I go into them lets have a look at the definition of Quality Assurance. Definition (Oxford [...]
Noise induced hearing loss.
Joan McKechnie BSc Hons Audiology & Speech Pathology, offers some wise words on the HSE Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005. This article shows employers what is required of them and how to reduce the liklihood of Noise induced hearing loss, with advise on noise risk assessments. Noise at Work An estimated 9 million [...]
Launch date confirmed for IOSH Managing Safely for Theatre and Production.
Well, after months of hard work, focus group meetings, hours writting lesson plans, graphic designer input, RB’s team pulling together, filming and design of board games, manuals and exrcises, and everything else I have forgotten, the time is finally here. As you will have probably read in my previous blogs, we have been developing the [...]
God Bless Nick Knowles… CPR is vital!
if some of you are habitual watchers of daytime telly, not that i am criticising those that are…. you may have seen BBC 1′s Real Rescues with the man himself talking to paramedics about the nightmare that is dealing with ‘chest pain’! chest pains are of course, one of those flashing warning beacons for first [...]