Magazine: Articles by Sean Whitaker

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Health and Safety Briefing Notes: An Overview of Safety at Sports Grounds
Training - By Sean Whitaker (04 Nov 06 16:00)
Nowadays organisers of public events have to be scrupulous in reducing the risk of injury to players and public, and protecting themselves from litigation should an incident arise. Ultimately, it is the management of a sports ground who bears responsibility for safety. - Read Article

Vibration at Work
Training - By Sean Whitaker (20 Oct 06 15:45)
With the advent of pneumatic tools in the mid-eighteenth century, workers began to complain about tingling and loss of sensation in their fingers, as well as hand weakness and white fingers. This condition, known medically as Secondary Raynaud’s syndrome, or hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS), or more colloquially as ‘white-finger syndrome’, results from long-term work with vibrating tools. - Read Article

Noise
Training - By Sean Whitaker (16 Aug 06 13:00)
A Medical Research Council survey for 1997 to 1998 suggested that over half a million workers in the UK suffer some level of work-related hearing damage - Read Article

Keeping a healthy spine in your ball-park figure
Consultancy - By Sean Whitaker (11 Mar 05 15:00)
Grounds maintenance is literally a field of opportunity. But unfortunately, in terms of human vertebrae and connecting ligaments, not all those opportunities can prove healthy. In my time as a safety consultant I have come across numerous groundsmen who speak ruefully of back injuries they incurred years ago, which they still carry as strains and sprains today. More Inside. - Read Article