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The Dilemma of Glove Quality vs. Glove Price

The Dilemma of Glove Quality vs. Glove Price

There is rarely a single obvious choice when choosing gloves from the myriad options available these days – each of which only differing slightly from the next. However any variations, even minor ones, can quickly scale up over time and across a whole workforce to make a significant impact. However, most of the time, the company is not even aware of this, as in the absence of making any comparisons,  it is very hard to tell if you are truly using the perfect glove for your company.
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The TRUE COSTS of Health & Safety

This is an extended version of the Expert Opinion to be published in the Annual Health & Safety Report for the Business Reporter magazine for the Sunday Telegraph June 2016

With H&S, a penny saved isn’t always a penny earned. The TRUE COSTS to your business from scrimping on H&S may be higher than you think. In terms of H&S, cost-cutting runs the risk of providing only minimal safety, comfort or wellbeing, or reducing H&S to a superficial box-ticking formality – all the while believing that the money saved is improving your bottom line as a business. However, the reality is that the TRUE COSTS to your business from scrimping on H&S may be far higher than you think.
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Launch of the new Health & Safety Innovations website

Welcome to our new website.

It will deal with all aspects of Innovation in Health & Safety – innovative ideas, advice and insights and products – with an initial focus on PPE.

If we’ve not met before, my name is Bali Rakhra. and I’m currently the Clothing Expert at CKL Distribution – since 1972 one of the UK’s longest established workwear & PPE trade distributors.
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Due to HSE regulations UK companies are deteriorate

Maybe it’s due to my background in law, but while supplying workwear over the past 25 years I’ve noticed that UK organisations are misapplying the HSE regulations in several different ways – and losing out considerably. Here’s one example.
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Why your safety boots might actually be damaging your feet.

Why your safety boots might actually be damaging your feet.

Safety boots have customarily been designed like ‘cages’ for the feet. That doesn’t necessarily sound like a bad thing in itself. It gives you a feeling of security. But it may be these very boots that are damaging the feet of millions of workers every single day.
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