Health & Safety

What MHOR 1992 actually requires: avoid, assess, reduce, inform. Plus what the regulations deliberately do not say.

Task, Individual, Load, Environment — what each covers, how TILE differs from LITE and TILEO, and turning findings into fixes.

There is no legal lifting limit in the UK. What the 25kg guideline actually means, and the reductions nobody applies.

The lift step by step, why keeping the load close matters most, and three myths worth killing including the 25kg one.

Practical answers on assessments, scope, PPE, gloves, beards, monitoring, record retention and enforcement.

What Regulation 12 requires, why there is no legal expiry date, and the site-specific half that no online course can deliver.

Why dust is a COSHH substance with no label, the silica and wood dust exposure limits, and the controls that actually work.

What WELs are, why a limit is not a safe level, long-term vs short-term limits, the Sk and Sen notations, and what to do if you exceed one.

The eight core duties regulation by regulation, the 14-month LEV rule, record retention periods, and what inspectors actually ask for.

COSHH stands for the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 — what each word means legally, and what COSHH does not cover.