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Safety Guidance – Competence
Published January 2024. This version replaces Guidance on Training and Competence published in 2020. Competence is not solely training and is definitely…
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Safety Guidance – First Aid Provisions
Published November 2024. This guidance replaces Guidance on First Aid at Work which was published in March 2014. The Health and Safety…
Safety Guidance – Legionella for Transient Sites
Published May 2024. This version replaces ‘Guidance on Legionella for Transient Sites’ which was published in 2018. In 2019 over 500 cases…
Safety Guidance – Management of Invasive & Injurious Plants
Published May 2024. This version replaces ‘AGS Guidance on Dangerous or Injurious Plants’ which was published in 2018. Geotechnical and geo-environmental investigations…
Safety Guidance – Manual Handling
Published May 2023. This version replaces ‘AGS Guidance on Manual Handling’ published in 2019. Incorrect manual handling is one of the most…
Safety Guidance – Mental Health (Work Related Stress)
Published January 2024. This version replaces Guidance on Occupational Stress (Published 2020) and Guidance on Health and Wellbeing at Work (Published 2021).…
Safety Guidance – Noise
Published January 2024 This version replaces ‘Guidance for Health Management with Noise’ published in 2015. In the geotechnical and geo-environmental sector noisy…
Safety Guidance – Respiratory Protective Equipment
Published May 2023. This version replaces ‘Guidance on selecting the correct Respiratory Protective Equipment (RPE)’ published in 2013. Ground investigations can pose…
Safety Guidance – Unexploded Ordnance
Published November 2024. This guidance replaces ‘Guidance on the Risk of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO)’ which was published in January 2019. Between 2006…
Safety Guidance – Welfare
Published October 2023 It is important, regardless to the working environment, that access to suitable and sufficient welfare is provided. When working…