Sustainable Solutions

HSE. New direction

The HSE have come up with a seven point plan for the immediate direction they are taking. These were the findings of a presentation I attended last week. Their number one item is regarding the central focus they will take towards occupational health as opposed to critical safety which has been the emphasis for most […]

Why a DSEAR Risk Assessment Is Essential for Powder Coating Booths

One of our regular clients is panicking. Their insurers are threatening to greatly increase their premiums unless they can demonstrate they have carried out a DSEAR risk assessment for their powder coat spray booth and associated curing oven. Ever since the tragedy in a paint spray shop in Norwich in 2015 where two workers sadly […]

CDOIF with confidence.

Yet another CDOIF assessment satisfies the requirement of the HSE and the EA for our clients. Chemical and Downstream Oil Industries Form, environmental alignment for COMSH regulated sites.

CDOIF lacking at sea. By Melissa Rose

Just months after I have completed a CDOIF Environmental Risk Tolerability study for sites and activities posing a high risk to the environment.  Months of research into the possibility of failures (in the Oil and Chemical industry), assessment of receptors, the severity of consequences and ways to mitigate those collective scenarios led me to rethink […]

Sustainable Solutions at Porthdinllaen, Project Seagrass!!

What a wonderful group of well-informed, dedicated and kind people the team were. The UK coastline from the southeast, south coast at Solent, the west coast and as far north at the Firth of forth is being restored by replanting seagrass meadows. The big picture sees 3000 hectares of seagrass restored in the next ten […]