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May 22, 2008

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Now that’s what I call health and safety!

Back in the April issue Tim wrote:

Dear editor,

I‘m the site health and safety advisor for a construction project on an existing electricity sub-station and, during a recent period of heavy rain, when it was too wet to go on site, I took the opportunity to run a fun session on health and safety law – not usually the most light-hearted of subjects!

The basic idea was to inform the site workers about H&S law, and to explain why we do certain things in certain ways on site. The workers were split into groups of five, and they each discussed the relevance of a particular piece of legislation to our site activities.

To keep the interest going, each group was asked to write down any song titles they thought might be relevant to that regulation, there being no right or wrong suggestions. This proved an excellent way of keeping the workers motivated and the result was the pop chart below!

The chart has been displayed on site and has been exceptionally well received by all who have seen it. I recommend other safety advisors to use the idea, as it certainly kept my workers interested and the actual chart gives a view of health and safety legislation from a different – and fun – angle.

Here’s Tim’s top 10

1 Legislation: Health & Safety at Work etc Act

Song: Do you really want to hurt me?

Artist: Culture Club

2 Legislation: Construction (Design &Management) Regulations

Song: Another brick in the wall

Artist: Pink Floyd

3 Legislation: COSHH

Song: Toxic

Artist: Britney Spears

4 Legislation: PPE Regulations

Song: You can leave your hat on

Artist: Tom Jones

5 Legislation: Control of Noise at Work Regulations

Song: Silence is golden

Artist: The Tremeloes

6 Legislation: Work at Height Regulations

Song: You raise me up

Artist: Westlife

7 Legislation: Confined Spaces Regulations

Song: Take my breath away

Artist: Berlin

8 Legislation: PUWER

Song: JCB Song

Aritist: Nizlopi

9 Legislation: Manual Handling Operations Regulations

Song: Hard to handle

Artist: Black Crowes

10 Legislation: Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations

Song: Bleeding love

Artist: Leona Lewis

So now you’ve seen Tim’s efforts, why not have a go yourself. Jut click on the ‘Comment on this story’ link below, fill in your name and email address and give us your song suggestions.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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