Since the mid-1950s, oil has been the most important source of energy and is relied upon heavily as part of modern society – from fueling transportation and heating homes, to being used in the coating of essential medicine, the list is endless. Yet often, little thought is given as to how oil comes ...
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Lone Workers,
Manufacturing Industry,
Health and Safety
'Lone worker' is a term that often conjures forth images of people working in heavy industry, isolated sites miles from other humans or workers carrying out extremely hazardous jobs. However, the education sector is increasingly coming to recognise the fact that many of their staff should from a ...
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Schools
With classroom violence on the rise, and over a quarter of teachers reporting being attacked each week whilst at work, schools are increasingly looking for ways to tackle the most serious incidents. Purpose-made lockdown systems are one form of defence. Educational institutions in the US have for a ...
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Schools
Most large facilities such as water treatment sites need a decent communications system in order to keep in touch with their workers at all times. This is because problems need to be reported quickly in order to prevent serious incidents from occurring and oftentimes, detailed information will have ...
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Lone Workers,
ATEX,
Critical Alarm Management
For many educational institutions, student safety is the top priority of management and staff alike, as it is a secure and comfortable environment that allows pupils to perform to the best of their ability. By taking steps to comprehensively eliminate the risk of serious accidents or violent ...
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Schools
When making sure that a school is secure against threats to health and safety, one of the primary concerns should be to protect students against dangers posed by trespassers on school grounds. Most of the time, people coming into the school will be there for benign reasons, but on some occasions ...
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Schools
In order to deliver high-quality educational services, one of the primary concerns of all school staff is the health of themselves and their students, with the majority of schools striving to protect their employees and pupils as much as possible. However, as figures from the Health and Safety ...
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Schools
