We are aware that e-mails are being sent to businesses in the UK purporting to be sent from a Health & Safety Executive (HSE) account. They are e-mails are threatening prosecution of your company for breaching coronavirus rules. Be alert – These e-mails are FAKE. They claim
Read more →The Cast Metals Federation is pleased to launch a new document aimed at helping those foundry owners and directors or suppliers of products and services to UK foundries, to start to improve health and safety within their businesses. Based on the enforcement activities of the Health and
Read more →The downloads page for the SHIFT website has today gone live with the first two documents being made available for public download. The first two documents are the HSE operational plan for 2019/20 which details which areas will be visited by the HSE during a planned intervention
Read more →People say you can’t truly understand the costs of doing health and safety versus not doing it. This may be true, it may not be. There are many intangible effects that are hard to quantify, but somethings such as less sickness absence, less accidents resulting in time
Read more →As part of the record equalling SHIFT forum held in early July 2019, the HSE provided three key people involved in the new work on tackling welding fume to come along and offer delegates an almost unique open question and answer session related directly to the change
Read more →The UK government directs what needs to be done to help keep people safe and healthy. Hence in the UK we have our regulator, the Health & Safety Executive. As part of this the HSE create an overall strategy for helping to improve health and safety in
Read more →A record equalling 91 delegates attended the July 2019 SHIFT forum, which focussed on welding fume and how to handle the risk from exposure to fumes and dust in the workplace. Due to the importance of the topic, CMF opened the event up to non-SHIFT members and
Read more →The EU Parliament has, after a review, adopted a position on formaldehyde as part of the 3rd wave of revisions to the Carcinogen & Mutagens Directive. The effect of this is, as of now formaldehyde is classified as a class 1b carcinogen, presumed to be a human
Read more →The SHIFT initiative is delighted to welcome two new members to the ever growing numbers of UK foundries who are experiencing the benefits of being involved with one of the most proactive industry led initiatives for improving safety performance and reducing ill-health in the workplace. Lestercast Ltd
Read more →There is new scientific evidence from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) that exposure to mild steel welding fume can cause lung cancer and possibly kidney cancer in humans. The UK Workplace Health Expert Committee has endorsed the reclassification of mild steel welding fume as
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