“Around a third of all accidents in the workplace are a result of poor manual handling.”
In todays episode Colin briefly covers the sort of things you want to challenge when considering any manual handling around the workplace. Whether it is yourself, an employee or anybody else within your business.
Get a provider who works with Make sure they focus on the health affects of poor manual handling
Get a good practical element. Ensure they demonstrate good manual handling techniques
“What we are trying to do… is to get people to change their behaviour a bit… to then change the way they work/ behave in the workplace”
ABOUT THE HOSTColin Nottage
‘Making health and safety as important as everything else we do.’
This is the belief that Colin is passionate about and through his consultancy Influential Management Group (IMG) is able to spread into industry. Colin works at a strategic level with company owners and board members. He helps business leaders establish and achieve their health and safety ambitions.
He has developed a number of leading competency improvement programmes that are delivered across industry and his strengths are his ability to take a practical approach to problem-solving and being able to liaise at all levels within an organisation.
Colin also runs a company that vets contractors online and a network that develops and support H&S consultancies to become better businesses.
Colin chairs the Construction Dust Partnership, an industry collaboration directly involving many organisations, including the Health and Safety Executive.
He is a Post Graduate Tutor at Strathclyde University and a highly sought-after health and safety speaker and trainer. He has a Post Graduate Certificate in Safety and Risk management, an engineering degree and is a Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).
