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Fire Risk Assessments for Offices, Retail and Residential Buildings: What’s Involved and Why It Matters
Fire Risk Assessments for Offices, Retail and Residential Buildings What’s involved, what the law requires, and why the competence of your assessor matters By Rob Anderson CMIOSH MIFSM, Complisafe | Fire Safety | November 2026 If you own, manage or occupy an office, a shop or a residential building with
2026 legal update
From 30 October 2026, employers must take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment, and they are now liable when customers, clients or contractors harass their staff. It is the biggest change to workplace harassment law in a decade. It lands at the same time as a busy run of
News and Insights 30th October 2026
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Our new website
We decided to update our web site at Complisafe so that you can see how our team has expanded as well as our services. We have wider coverage across the UK for Health and Safety support and Fire Risk Assessment, we can now offer Food Safety Audits and inspections, provide
Preventing Work-Related Stress: How HSE’s Stress Indicator Tool Can Help
Preventing work-related stress isn’t just good for your people. It’s the law. World Mental Health Day falls on 10 October each year. It’s a timely reminder for employers to tackle one of the biggest challenges in today’s workplace: work-related stress. Stress, depression and anxiety account for around half of all
APPROVED DOCUMENT B
Approved Document B (Fire Safety) What is an approved document? Approved documents are approved by the Secretary of State and give practical guidance on common building situations about how to meet the requirements of the Building Regulations for England. Different approved documents give guidance on each of the technical
Competence in Health and Safety
What is competence? Competence can be described as the combination of training, skills, experience and knowledge that a person has and their ability to apply them to perform a task safely. Other factors, such as attitude and physical ability, can also affect someone’s competence. As an employer, you should take
Families warned of risk to life from unregistered gas work amid surge in prosecutions of illegal traders
Families, homeowners and businesses have been warned not to gamble with their safety by using unregistered gas fitters, as new figures reveal a sharp rise in prosecutions for illegal gas work. To mark Gas Safety Week (14 to 20 September 2026), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has revealed that
Protecting Lone Workers: How to Manage the Risks of Working Alone
This article explains who counts as a lone worker, what the law requires, and the practical steps organisations should take, including risk assessment, training, supervision and monitoring, to keep people who work alone healthy, safe and supported.
British businesses fined more than £44m per year for OSH regulatory breaches
Prosecution charges for health and safety violations are rising year on year Businesses are racking up millions in fines, says Breathe HR, which helps more than 17,000 small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with their health and safety compliance processes. After making a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the HSE to access
Hidden in plain sight
Confronting modern slavery in today’s economy Published in 2026 by IOSH Foreword By Eleanor Lyons UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight. It exists not only in places far from view, but within the systems, products and services that shape everyday life. Across supply chains, workplaces
Why Financial Services Firms Can’t Afford to Ignore Health, Safety and Fire Compliance
How getting the basics right protects your people, your FCA standing, and your reputation Financial services firms are, understandably, laser-focused on regulatory compliance under the FCA. Conduct rules, capital requirements, SYSC obligations — these dominate the compliance agenda. But there’s a legal duty that sits alongside all of this, applies
HSE Updates Construction
As school holidays approach, construction companies across the region are being urged to take additional precautions to keep children safe this summer.
Employers urged to act on workplace heat risks as temperatures rise
Great Britain’s safety regulator has called on employers to assess and manage the risks posed by extreme heat, warning that hotter summers could have significant implications for worker health, safety and productivity. The warning from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) follows a heat-health alert issued by the UK Health
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