As if it isn’t hard enough for our local village / town centre high streets. What with the latest economic downturn and shoppers preferring retail parks turning many a high street into a chost town, with strewns of empty shops and boarded-up windows. Now, shopkeepers are wanting council-funded hanging baskets taken down incase staff injure [...]

“Health and safety gone mad” that’s what people were saying in 2007 when an apparent harmless piece of fun was cancelled, the children’s annual donkey derby race in Llandudno which had been held every summer for 39 years had to start with an inflatable sheep and a toy orang-utan. Must have been great to watch [...]

We are all exposed to various levels of noise, but when it becomes displeasing and disrupts the activity or balance of your life then its known as noise pollution. Construction workers and people who work in factories must wear ear protection, because the equipment they use can be extremely loud. But even some lawn mowers [...]

A disturbing fact is that 39 people have lost their life at work in Scotland’s Agriculture industries, which accumulates to 455 people in 10 years (latest report from HSE). With no improvement in the last 10 years something has to be done to protect the safety of argricultural workers. It is simply unacceptable that, almost [...]

We get all sorts of strange news stories relating to Health & Safety here at Think Safety Signs, some are first class while others seem rather strange. The latest news story we received was that of Scottish Teachers up-in-arms about the ringing of the School Bell. Seemingly, they want a ban imposed on the school [...]

Since 10 new states joined the European Union in 2004, more than 475,000 Polish and Lithuanian workers have come to work in the UK, in a resent survey more than a quarter of workers had problems with payment, including not being paid for hours worked and unauthorised deductions. There are rules about how much an [...]

I’m pretty sure the majority of us will have been shocked at the latest food scare emanating from Hong Kong. Toxic eggs have found their way into the food chain and the latest figures reveal more than a quarter of a million children have been infected with six babies having died. The root cause is [...]

In its simpliest form, safety signs are there to warn or convey a message to others. Not only is the message on the sign important but also its positioning. Now, consider what happened in Islington, London, just a few days ago. A safety sign was used to help warn motorists of pedestrians crossing as there [...]