Cake scheme inspects Thames Gateway firms
November 17, 2008
An initiative has targeted health and safety conditions in businesses across the Thames Gateway region.
Council workers and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) worked together to conduct 160 inspections across the area since November 10th, with these continuing for the next week.
Entitled the Common Approach to Kent Enterprise (Cake), the joint scheme led to the issuing of 13 prohibition and 20 improvement notices.
Inspections focused on working at height, asbestos management and manual handling.
The HSE's HM principal inspector for Kent Mike Walters claims the provision of flexible warranting enables the organisations to be more effective.
"It means that HSE inspectors and local authority enforcement officers can deal with matters of evident concern quickly, efficiently and consistently," he states.
Praising Cake as an opportunity for companies to assess their own performance in workplace health and safety, he claims a high proportion of Kent businesses are failing to meet their obligations in this field.
In recent related news, president of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Nattasha Freeman asserted a single accident could cause a firm to go out of business.
Council workers and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) worked together to conduct 160 inspections across the area since November 10th, with these continuing for the next week.
Entitled the Common Approach to Kent Enterprise (Cake), the joint scheme led to the issuing of 13 prohibition and 20 improvement notices.
Inspections focused on working at height, asbestos management and manual handling.
The HSE's HM principal inspector for Kent Mike Walters claims the provision of flexible warranting enables the organisations to be more effective.
"It means that HSE inspectors and local authority enforcement officers can deal with matters of evident concern quickly, efficiently and consistently," he states.
Praising Cake as an opportunity for companies to assess their own performance in workplace health and safety, he claims a high proportion of Kent businesses are failing to meet their obligations in this field.
In recent related news, president of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Nattasha Freeman asserted a single accident could cause a firm to go out of business.
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