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Stay informed, stay compliant, and stay ahead. Jonathan brings you practical, no‑nonsense health & safety and fire safety insights for businesses across Coventry, Warwickshire, the West Midlands, the South West, the West Country and Cornwall.
From real‑world safety tips to expert guidance that protects your people and your business, this blog is your go‑to resource for smarter, safer working.
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Knowledge Share: Working Safely at Heights in Schools- Managing Risks and Solutions
Working at height in schools is often necessary for tasks like maintenance, repairs, and inspections as well as for shows and theatre activities. However, without proper precautions, it can be hazardous. At JCH Safety, we provide expert health and safety consultancy,...
Knowledge Share: Smoke Ventilation Systems for Factories
Fire safety is a top priority for any industrial facility, particularly in factory settings where the risk of fire can be higher due to machinery, electrical systems, and materials used in production. One of the most critical aspects of fire safety is ensuring that...
Knowledge Share: How Do Fire Risk Assessments Protect Waste Transfer Sites?
Fire risk assessments (FRAs) play a crucial role in protecting waste transfer sites by identifying potential fire hazards and implementing measures to mitigate these risks. We have recently been working at several waste transfer and recycling facilities across the...
Knowledge Share: Ensuring Warehouse Fire Safety
Warehouse fire safety is a critical aspect of managing any storage facility. Fires pose a major risk to life and can cause significant damage to property and disrupt operations. Implementing robust fire safety measures is essential to prevent such incidents. Each...
Knowledge Share: Understanding Health and Safety In the Context of Leicester City
Leicester City is a vibrant, multicultural city with thriving education, business and cultural sectors. Health and safety benefits all these sectors and JCH Safety are on hand to assist your organisation to thrive through health and safety consultancy. Some key facts:...
Knowledge Share: How to Create an Effective Fire Evacuation Plan
When it comes to safety, having a well-prepared fire evacuation plan is essential. Whether you’re at home, work, or any other location, knowing how to respond during a fire emergency can save lives. Whether you manage a business, run a school, or a leisure business,...
Knowledge Share: School health and safety auditing. Why it is important?
Auditing art, design and technology departments within academies is crucial for several reasons. School health and safety auditing. Why it is important? This article is to help school leaders understand the critical role health and safety auditing can have. It is a...
Knowledge Share: How to Use a Fire Extinguisher
Fire extinguishers are essential fire safety tools. They are crucial devices for aiding safe evacuation from buildings. They can also, under certain circumstances, help prevent small fires from escalating into major disasters. Whether you’re at home, in the workplace,...
Knowledge Share: Health and Safety Audits – A Simple Guide
Are you managing safety correctly? Simply put, if you don’t audit it, how do you know? Introduction Health and safety audits are crucial for every organisation. They provide a systematic, independent, and documented process for obtaining evidence and evaluating it...
Knowledge Share: Fire Safety in Warehousing – Protecting Lives and Property
Fire safety in warehousing and storage has never been more important. Why is warehousing important? Warehouses play a crucial role in the supply chain, storing goods and materials that keep our economy moving. However, with large quantities of inventory, machinery,...
Knowledge Share: The Importance of Fire Risk Assessments For Churches
Fire risk assessments are a vital aspect of safety for churches. There are many fires each year in churches, caused by a variety of reasons, including faulty wiring, candles and arson. Ecclesiastical, the specialist church insurers, report that there have been...
Knowledge Share: How do I look after fire doors
How do I look after fire doors?
There is a legal requirement to maintain your fire doors in good working condition. This is the case for fire doors wherever they are installed.
Knowledge Share: What do I need to do to make my holiday let safe?
To make your holiday let safe, you need to comply with various health and safety regulations which make provisions for achieving safety in a variety of areas. These include: Fire safety: Fire is the biggest risk to your guests and to your property. Making sure your...
Knowledge Share: Does my building need fire sprinklers?
Does my building need sprinklers? Yes, it may well do! This is one of those questions that is not the simplest to answer. The thought behind this blog is to explore some of the aspects of automatic sprinkler systems to help you decide if you should have automatic...
Pub fires, what are the risks?
There is a massive potential for fire in pubs. Each year there are numerous fires in public houses, many of which could be avoided. Fire risk assessment is the key to fire prevention in public houses.
Knowledge Share: Is it necessary to have a retained health and safety consultant?
Yes, it is necessary to have a retained health and safety consultant, especially if you do not have an in-house safety expert within your business. It is also a legal requirement to have access to a competent safety expert. We have put this blog together to help you...
Knowledge Share: Why is lightning protection considered during a building fire risk assessment?
Lightning protection is important for buildings because it helps to prevent or lessen lightning strike damage to buildings. It protects the internal electrical components of a building, helping to prevent fires or electrocution. A lightning protection system...
Knowledge Share: Understanding Health and Safety Prosecutions
What is a health and safety prosecution? By law, businesses, organisations and workers must adhere to the requirements of health and safety legislation. Failure to comply with the law can result in a fine or imprisonment. There are many health and safety regulations...
Knowledge Share: What exactly is a Health and Safety Policy?
Many small businesses or firms know that they should have a Health and Safety Policy, but we are often asked, ‘What is a Health and Safety Policy and why do we need one?’ So we thought, lets put a blog together to make it clear! A health and safety policy is a...
Knowledge Share: Managing Work at Height in Schools
‘Way too often, work at height is carried out without proper planning and preparation. People are often misinformed and take unnecessary risks because they think low level work at height isn’t dangerous. This simply isn’t true.’ I have recently read an article about...
Knowledge Share: Fire Risk Assessments for Blocks of Flats
Fire safety of blocks of flats has been in the news a lot over the last couple of years. Since the Grenfell tragedy, fire safety has been a hot topic. Unfortunately, 72 people lost their lives and the tragedy could have been avoided. New legislation has come into...
Knowledge Share: 5 Ways to improve safety for your organisation this year
Firstly, Happy New Year from JCH Safety. Let’s hope it will be a great year and one where your staff and business stay safe! Good health and safety should be the primary objective of all organisations. Whether you run a business, a school or college or a charitable...
Knowledge Share: Setting up a risk assessment
The five steps to risk assessment. Whether you run a school, pub or operate a building business, you require risk assessments. This blog is an introduction to the subject and we have some free give aways to help you to prepare yours. JCH Safety are expert safety...
Fire Marshal Knowledge Share
We are often asked questions about fire marshals, so this blog is aimed at addressing common questions that we are asked. Are Fire Wardens and Fire Marshals the same thing? Yes, they are. They are different names for the same role. A Fire Marshal is responsible...