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bath logo Health and Safety Briefing Notes: An Overview of Safety at Sports Grounds
4 Nov 2006 - Training - Sean Whitaker
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.

Vibes Vibration at Work
20 Oct 2006 - Training - Sean Whitaker
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.

Noise
16 Aug 2006 - Training - Sean Whitaker
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

manauel-handeling-pic-from-.jpg Keeping a healthy spine in your ball-park figure
11 Mar 2005 - Consultancy - Sean Whitaker
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.

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