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Employer’s Guide: Health & Safety Enforcement
- April 4, 2022
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News
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When a health and safety inspector arrives at reception and wishes to carry out an inspection, what should you do? And perhaps more importantly, what should you not do when a health and safety enforcement officer appears at your workplace? Who Enforces Health & Safety Law? Health and safety law is enforced by: Health -
QLM (CIMSPA Endorsed) Health and Safety Management Certificate in Leisure and Culture via Zoom video conferencing
- March 31, 2022
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News, Training
Course dates: 3, 4 & 5 October 2022. The Health and Safety Management Certificate course is a leisure management course designed to cover the primary requirements of health and safety within leisure, sport, recreation and culture facilities giving successful candidates the knowledge and skills required. This three day course is run by Quality Leisure Management -
QLM (CIMSPA Endorsed) Health and Safety Management Certificate in Leisure and Culture Revalidation Course via Zoom video conferencing
- March 31, 2022
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News, Training
Course date: 7 October 2022. The Health and Safety Management Certificate revalidation course is a leisure specialist course covering the primary requirements of health and safety within sport and recreation facilities. This one day course is run by Quality Leisure Management Ltd. For successful candidates, the course leads to the revalidation of the Health and -
Sauna Fire Safety & Prevention
- February 2, 2022
- Posted by: QLMTeam
- Category: News
If you search for information on fires in the leisure industry or discuss where fires have started in leisure centres in the past, saunas often appear alongside the usual suspects of external wheelie bins and electrical equipment. The RISC Authority / Fire Protection Association (FPA) state in their publication Risk Control: Fire safety in the -
QLM (CIMSPA Endorsed) Health and Safety Management Certificate in Leisure and Culture Revalidation Course via Zoom video conferencing
- December 13, 2021
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News, Training
Course date: 25 July 2022. The Health and Safety Management Certificate revalidation course is a leisure specialist course covering the primary requirements of health and safety within sport and recreation facilities. This one day course is run by Quality Leisure Management Ltd. For successful candidates, the course leads to the revalidation of the Health and -
The importance of regular changing room locker inspections.
- July 12, 2021
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News
The background In spring 2019, a 9 year old child who was waiting to start a swimming lesson with a swim school that had hired a school pool, climbed on to a bank of lockers with a friend. It appears that they climbed up onto a bank of changing room lockers that were installed against -
The importance of good swimming pool and pool water management in holiday parks and activity centres.
- July 12, 2021
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News
The background At the end of August 2017, a small boy was part of a swimming session with his family who were attending an activity camp at a holiday park activity centre in North Devon. Towards the end of the session, the boy’s father noticed that the child was not with the group and presumed -
We have had a request from a disabled swimmer to use a swimming snorkel. What are your views on these and how do they differ from masks with an integral snorkel?
- July 12, 2021
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News
Not permitting the use of snorkel masks is, in our opinion, quite correct for a number of reasons, not the least of which are the lack of training available, no product standardisation and the potential for CO2 build up in the mask. The device you are describing is less of an issue although, being a -
QLM (CIMSPA Endorsed) Health and Safety Management Certificate in Leisure and Culture via Zoom video conferencing
- February 7, 2021
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News, Training
Course dates: 19, 20 & 21 July 2022. The Health and Safety Management Certificate course is a leisure management course designed to cover the primary requirements of health and safety within leisure, sport, recreation and culture facilities giving successful candidates the knowledge and skills required. This three day course is run by Quality Leisure Management -
COVID-19 and RIDDOR
- November 21, 2020
- Posted by: Leigh Simmonds
- Category: News
Reporting cases of COVID-19 under RIDDOR 2013 During the course of the recent QLM seminars, we discussed the possible impact of staff who test positive for COVID-19 and whether there was a need to report under RIDDOR. IOSH has, in the last few days, published an article on this subject which offers clarity around what can
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