COVID-19 Protocols and the Importance of Risk Assessments for Return to Work
Covid-19 Protocols and the importance of Risk Assessments for Return to Work TONY MANGAN EHS Consultant EazySAFE A hazard is anything with the potential to cause harm in terms of human injury or ill health, such as work materials, equipment, work methods or practices, poor work design or exposure to harmful agents such as chemicals, noise or vibration. A risk is the likelihood that somebody will be harmed by the hazard and how serious the…
Restriction Fatigue
Restriction Fatigue How We Can Promote Wellbeing Through the Hardest of Times. ALAN WHITE Wellness Consultant EazySAFE As we live through another six weeks of restrictions it’s difficult to imagine how we can promote wellbeing when the mood of the whole country is one of frustration and fatigue. More of us are being asked to sacrifice our freedoms again and limit the daily interactions that are key to our personal wellbeing. For those who must…
Workplace air quality – A risk mitigating strategy for spread of airborne viruses
Workplace air quality – A risk mitigating strategy for spread of airborne viruses DAVID CRUISE Marketing Manager Camfil On the 6th of July 2020, 239 leading scientists from over 32 different countries signed a research document to say that Covid-19 was an airborne virus. So what did this mean? Well, focussing on hand hygiene, social distancing and mask wearing were no longer the only risk mitigation strategies. Now improving the air quality within your building…
Emergency Evacuation Plan for Your Home – The Steps to Take in Order to be Prepared
Emergency Evacuation Plan for Your Home – The Steps to Take in Order to be Prepared COLIN O'NEILL EHS Consultant EazySAFE One of the first questions I ask a group when I am delivering Fire Warden or Fire Safety Awareness Training is, “Who here has an emergency evacuation plan for their home?” Unfortunately, it is surprising if I get more than one person in a group saying yes... The initial reaction is nearly always the…
Health & Safety Priorities For Q4 2020
Health & Safety Priorities as 2020 Comes to an End GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” – Abraham Lincoln I love this quote above! How apt it is, having no plan and not setting your priorities is like taking a run in the dark! I think we can all agree that 2020 has been the strangest…
Quality of Life During COVID-19
Quality of Life During COVID-19 GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE I bet when we said farewell to 2019 and welcomed in 2020 last New Years Eve, we could not imagine the year we had ahead of us! Its true, we never know what the future holds, but I bet none of us thought we would be living through a Pandemic. As I write this, it is the end of September, more than six months…
Staying Connected During the Pandemic. Why Our Close Relationships Are More Important Than Ever.
Staying Connected During the Pandemic. Why Our Close Relationships Are More Important Than Ever. ALAN WHITE Wellness Consultant EazySAFE The practical challenges of the COVID-19 crises has completely transformed how we live and work. Whether working remotely from home or back in the workplace, how we conduct our day to day business has radically changed bringing with it many difficulties, one of which is our ability to stay connected with one another. Our workplaces are…
Realism in a World of Toxic Positivity
Realism in a World of Toxic Positivity ALAN WHITE Wellness Consultant EazySAFE Toxic positivity is the idea that remaining positive and focusing only on the positive is how we should be living our lives. By focusing on the positive only we must therefore reject the negative and suppress any difficult emotions that we might feel. Toxic positivity has become popular during the COVID–19 pandemic. “Stay positive”, “This too shall pass”, are just some of the…
Dealing with a HSA Inspection
Dealing with a HSA Inspection GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS CONSULTANT EazySAFE Before we even get started into what to expect from a HSA inspection, lets take a look at who the HSA are and what they are all about. The Health and Safety Authority was founded in 1989 and is the national body in Ireland, with responsibility for occupational health and safety. Its role is to secure health and safety at work. The body has…
Does Safety Have to Take a Back Seat to Productivity?
Does Safety Have to Take a Backseat to Productivity? TONY MANGAN EHS CONSULTANT EazySAFE I have almost 30 years’ experience in many aspects of manufacturing, in a wide variety of businesses. Safety and productivity have been high and low. I have found that where safety becomes integral to “how it is done” in the company, employees feel more valued, everyone takes care of how things are done, they feel proud of their work, people buy…