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Workplace Safety Solutions

Name: Workplace Safety Solutions
Address: 30 Churchill Place, London, E145RE, GB
Telephone: +441268649006
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From small beginnings (one man and his desk), Workplace Safety Solutions has steadily grown into a h

We are a friendly team with a relaxed, but conscientious working ethic. This is something we hope to project onto our interactions with clients. We aim to be always approachable, and to offer a personal service. We are not just a paper based consultancy, we are interested in the people behind the roles, and how we can help them and their workplace grow. Company Values:
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21/10/2026

The days are getting darker, the weather has turned and the clocks are going back this Sunday. What difference does it make on a site? 🌧️

Same site. Same jobs. Very different conditions.

Slips, trips and falls on the same level cause 30% of non-fatal injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR, more than any other kind of accident (HSE, 2024/25). Now think about what autumn adds: wet ground, mud on walkways, slick scaffold boards and the light going before the working day is over 🚧.

So, this week, try walking your site at 4pm rather than 10am. Is the lighting good enough where people walk? Are pedestrian routes still clear and free of mud? Can drivers see people in the rain and the dark?

These hazards are easy to spot now and fix this week. Much harder after someone’s been hurt.

What’s the first thing you check on a site when the weather turns? 👇

15/10/2026

A look behind the scenes at WSS 👷

Every workplace is different, and so is the support it needs 📋.

At Workplace Safety Solutions, we work closely with buisnesses to provide practical health and safety support tailored to their needs 🚧.

It’s all about working together to create safer workplaces.

09/10/2026

🚧 When vehicles and pedestrians share the same space, small gaps in safety measures can create significant risks, with severe consequences.

A traffic route that hasn’t been properly assessed, pedestrians taking shortcuts, and blind spots that haven’t been accounted for are all controls that can gradually slip as work becomes routine ⚠️.

Under CDM 2015 Regulation 27 📋, construction traffic routes must be suitable for the people and vehicles using them. That means proper planning, effective segregation and controls that work in practice. Not just on paper.

At Workplace Safety Solutions, we believe prevention starts with getting the fundamentals right 👇
- Identifying risks before work begins
- Designing traffic routes around people and vehicle movements
- Prioritising physical segregation wherever possible
- Making sure that safety measures remain effective as site conditions change

It’s not about whether your workers know where the blind spots are 🚐. It’s whether the site has been designed to protect them.

06/10/2026

Noise-induced hearing loss is one of those workplace risks that might not seem urgent 👂.

Unlike HAVS, which tends to get more attention because workers can associate vibrating tools with a physical risk, hearing damage can be much easier to overlook. Someone spends years around grinders, breakers, saws, compressors or heavy plant, and because the noise is simply “part of the job”, it becomes background rather than a hazard ⚠️.

Repeated exposure to excessive noise can cause permanent hearing loss, and the risk isn’t limited to the person operating the equipment. Anyone working nearby can be exposed too.

The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 require employers to eliminate or reduce risks to health and safety from workplace noise. Where exposure reaches certain levels, employers also have duties around hearing protection, health surveillance and designated hearing protection zones 🔊.

The reality is that hearing loss is often gradual enough that workers may not realise there’s a problem until the damage has already been done.
At Workplace Safety Solutions, we help businesses move beyond simply having a risk assessment in place and focus on whether the controls are actually working in practice.

Because a hearing risk assessment sitting in a folder doesn’t protect anyone. The controls people actually follow do 👷.

30/09/2026

In 2024/25, there were 182 hot work-related fires recorded in England. Welding and cutting alone accounted for 85% of them.

Whilst it’s a small share nationally, it’s a risk no workplace has to actively manage in the way construction does 👷.

That’s really the heart of it. A site’s layout changes daily. Fire compartmentation doesn’t exist yet. Multiple contractors share the same space, often with combustible materials stored close to whatever ignition source someone’s using that day. A finished building manages fire risk by design. A site under construction has to manage it in real time. Every day 🔥.

Industry analysis has pointed to a recurring problem: hot work permits and fire risk assessments exist on most sites, however, they’re often generic and treated more like a paperwork exercise rather than something genuinely followed 📋.

That gap between “the permit’s in the folder” and “the permit changed behaviour” is exactly where these incidents keep happening.

CDM 2015 doesn’t treat this as optional. Regulation 29 requires suitable measures to prevent fire risk on site in the first place. Furthermore, Regulation 32 requires proper fire detection and fire-fighting provision to exist 🧯.

Permits don’t stop fires, people who follow them do.

21/09/2026

Fear is just a door, push it and you'll find it's not even locked 🚪

After twenty years of Workplace Safety Solutions, Chris Turner has learnt that tough times don’t ask permission. They show up, and the only real choice is whether you meet them with toughness or let them stall you ⚒️.

Pushing through fear rarely means waiting for it to pass - it means taking action while it’s still there.

🌱 Every single day is another chance to grow, to do better than yesterday and to actually make a difference. That mindset doesn’t come from ignoring fear. It comes from choosing possibility over it, again and again.

Twenty years in, the fear never fully disappears. You just get better at pushing through it.

16/09/2026

Huge congratulations to our client, R B Emerson's Ltd! ✨

We were delighted to hear the news from last week's Hill Group UK Supply Chain Awards, where Emersons picked up not one but two wins, off the back of seven well-earned nominations.

🏆 Outstanding Commitment to Health & Safety – Emersons�
🏆 Best Subcontractor Supervisor/Manager – Dave English

We're proud to support Emersons as, and to see that commitment recognised on such a public stage means a great deal to us. It's a reflection of the genuine, day-to-day effort their whole team puts into doing things properly, not just ticking boxes 👷.

Two wins from seven nominations is a brilliant result. Congratulations to everyone at Emersons, we're proud to work alongside you 👏.

From all of us at Workplace Safety Solutions 💚.

15/09/2026

🍂 Autumn and winter don’t add new hazards. They make the existing ones worse.

A scaffold that's perfectly safe in July becomes a different proposition with a layer of frost on it ❄️. A walkway that's fine at 2pm is a trip risk at 4pm when the light's gone. And the same task that felt routine in summer will soon happen in the cold, in the dark, and in a rush to get finished before the light disappears entirely 🏗️.

That's the real risk of winter working, not that something new appears, but that familiar hazards quietly get sharper while procedures stay exactly the same 📋.

None of this needs a dramatic fix. CDM 2015 already requires suitable and sufficient lighting on every site and traffic route, with secondary lighting where artificial lighting could fail. Regulation 35 doesn't relax in winter 🌨️, and neither should the standard sites actually hold themselves to. Beyond that, it's a realistic look at what daylight the programme allows for, a clear owner for gritting rather than "whoever notices," and drivers who know their commute now starts and ends in the dark 👷.

We flag this every year without fail, it's one of the most predictable seasonal risks there is, and one of the easiest to get ahead of ⚠️.

13/09/2026

What does it actually take to succeed in business? 💭

Nobody warns you at the start how uncomfortable it is. Building something worthwhile means being out of your depth more often than not, and that's not a sign you're getting it wrong, it's just part of the job 💪.

In this video, Chris Turner reflects on the last 20 years of Workplace Safety Solutions by discussing why embracing discomfort and truly knowing your service is what separates businesses that last from those that don't. He also talks candidly about handling rejection and criticism from customers along the way.

Twenty years in, the discomfort never fully goes away. You just get better at working through it 🎯.

09/09/2026

👷 According to HSE's Labour Force Survey data, an estimated 42,000 construction workers report suffering from a work-related musculoskeletal disorder. This type of injury builds up slowly, then all at once.

Unlike a fall or a struck-by incident, manual handling injuries rarely happen in a single moment. They build up over months and years of lifting, carrying, twisting and awkward postures — which is exactly why they're so easy to under-manage. There's no dramatic incident to report, just a gradual accumulation that eventually stops someone working altogether.

The good news is that most of it is genuinely preventable, and the hierarchy is simple. Avoid the manual handling altogether where possible, with better planning, better design and the right kit for the job 🏗️. Make sure to assess the task properly, using frameworks such as TILE (Task, Individual, Load, Environment) or HSE’s free MAC tool (Manual Handling Assessment Charts) 📋. Utilise lifting aids and mechanical assistance as the default, not the fallback - they’re there for a reason ⚒️. Lastly, train people to recognise early discomfort as a signal to change something, not something to push through ⚠️.

💪 A career in construction shouldn't have to cost someone their back by 50. Manual handling deserves the same attention as any other site risk — not because it's dramatic, but because of how much it quietly adds up.

At Workplace Safety Solutions, it's something we keep an eye out for on every site we visit 💚.

Address

30 Churchill Place
London
E145RE

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+441268649006

Website

http://www.wpsafety.co.uk/

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