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Guides

These guides are designed to support HSE professionals, frontline leaders, and safety-conscious teams with focused, easy-to-use advice. They cover real risks like fatigue, distraction, and slips—offering simple actions to build safer habits and reduce errors at work, at home, and on the road.

SafeStart Guides
How to Make Habits Stick

According to Statistic Brain, less than 10% of people actually achieve their goal when trying to create new habits. When it comes to safety, everyone knows that good habits are essential. Most of what we do every day is habitual, learning how to change or form new habits effectively can be applied to many things. […]

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Raising the Bar: A Safety Guide to Working at Heights

Anyone working at a height knows that fall protection measures should never be ignored, a perception matched by public safety authorities that publish clear guidelines on how to plan tasks and behave safely while carrying out this kind of work. The impact, as we all know of falling to a lower level can have life-altering […]

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The Effects of Fatigue in the Workplace

Fatigue is a silent threat that affects decision-making, focus, and safety. This guide explains the causes and impact of fatigue, then offers clear, practical steps to reduce its risks—through smarter scheduling, better habits, and proven fatigue management systems. A must-have for any HSE professional.

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Solving Slips, Trips and Falls Once and For All

Whatever the type of company or industry, numerous injuries at work happen because of slips, trips or falls. For all concerned this a particularly irritating category of accident because there is often no predictable hazard that could have been prepared for. To avoid repetition in the absence of a recognisable hazard seems impossible – but […]

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Driving Distraction Away

“Sleeping with your eyes open”, “hypnotic dissociation”, “driving in a daze” – there are many ways to characterise the state of being behind the wheel with dangerously diminished alertness. Public safety campaigns regularly tackle the scourge of sleep-deprived motorists or texting while driving. All the same, authorities have yet to tackle the wider phenomenon, an […]

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Providing the Best PPE is no Guarantee

If there is one thing you need to get right in the workplace then it is personal protection equipment (PPE). And yet a recent survey showed that all but two percent of those questioned had noticed colleagues at work not wearing appropriate PPE. Considering that safety glasses or safety gloves may save lives in emergency […]

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