Lockdown is being eased and people are preparing to go back to work in a range of industries. As the Coronavirus continues to wreak havo...
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Given the impact of the lockdown on the global economy, it's hardly surprising that there's a clamour for people to get back t...
Wednesday, 29 April 2020
Former cabinet minister the Rt Hon Justine Greening and entrepreneur David Harrison have created the C-19 Business Pledge , an ini...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020
With PPE in short supply on the front line and the rest of us in lockdown, constructions have been effectively told to carry on. Given t...
Saturday, 11 April 2020
On the Health and Safety Executive forums, poster Bill Sowerbutts raised a question on safety at work vis-a-vis the Coronavirus crisis: ...
Thursday, 26 March 2020
Due to Government restrictions on public movement a lot of us are now working from home. Let's talk about how to make the most of it. ...
Monday, 23 March 2020
One of my biggest bugbears in FM is communication. The companies where communication is the priority are the ones that tend to retain thei...
Monday, 16 March 2020
The advent of the Coronavirus has scared many of us into social distancing, working at home, and panic buying. The good news is that by ta...
Friday, 13 March 2020
Coronavirus is a nasty thing; it takes a week or so for symptoms to manifest and while most of us who get it suffer as much as from nor...
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
In my last post I talked about working with contractors and how I'd turned men away from site for not having the correct RAMS. Toda...
Thursday, 5 March 2020
Since I stared my new job the most managerial things I’ve done include asking contactors to move their vans away from the entryway...
Thursday, 27 February 2020
Nobody likes getting earache, i.e complaints or being shouted at by someone who is angry about something, not necessarily ourselves. Ove...
Thursday, 20 February 2020
One of my biggest bugbears in FM is communication. They were better at it in my last job than in others; people knew what was going on. Th...
Tuesday, 18 February 2020
We've been warned (I hope!) that daisy-chaining plugs into extension leads as shown in in this picture is a very bad and dangerous ide...
Thursday, 13 February 2020
The law around FM keeps on changing as new information comes in and new discoveries are made. Compliance with health and safety can be see...
Thursday, 6 February 2020
The struggle to get ahead at work can be fraught with tension. You want to be promoted but what if your boss isn't so keen? What then?...
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