All schools strive to provide a safe learning environment, but recent figures released by NASUWT paint a picture of increasing violence towards teachers, with roughly half experiencing attacks on a weekly basis, whilst serious injuries have risen by over twenty five percent in just a few years. ...
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Critical alarms are essential for those working in environments with high risk. They are particularly important for those that are required to carry out their work duties alone, without supervision from others. Employee monitoring is a key part in ensuring that each of your employees is safe at all ...
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The automated communications specialist looks at how employees communicate with and respond to alerts in the workplace Within its research, ANT Telecom looked at the range of devices employees were utilising to communicate with colleagues, including lone workers, as well as incident reporting and ...
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Thinking about changing from ISDN lines to SIP or Cloud Telephony? Make sure you do your research before you before you make a hasty decision....
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Business Telecom,
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In March 2017, an experienced linesman went to carry out some routine maintenance of power lines. When he got there, he found ivy growing on the lines, so he rested a ladder against a wooden pole, and climbed up to remove the ivy. What happened next isn’t clear. It’s thought that he cut through his ...
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Managers who are in charge of health and safety need to take great care throughout the year. This is not just due to the annual audits by the HSE and other official bodies, but also because any injuries or accidents at work can make employers liable to pay large amounts of compensation. This ...
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Manufacturing plants have accidents. Machines malfunction, employees get in disagreements, workers are negligent. These incidents occur all over the world, not just in dilapidated factories with little supervision in third world countries. They occur in Japan, in the United States, and closer to ...
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