Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents

RoSPA

RoSPA is actively involved in the promotion of safety in all areas of life - at work, in the home, and on the roads, in schools, at leisure and on or near water.

RoSPA offer a training service - from practical skills to management and professional qualifications, including the new NEBOSH National Diplomas and also produce a wide range of occupational safety resources, including:

• Occupational Safety Posters
• Videos
• Publications
• Occupational Safety Journals
  
  

Chemical Spill Management

New Pig

New Pig produce and retail a selection of absorbents spill kits, mats, socks, booms, pillows and pans. They also distribute products for material handling, personal protection, spill response, liquid filtration and workplace safety.

Guardian safety

Guardian safety products supply a number of safe storage solutions for chemical substances including:

• Spill containment and bunding systems
• drum stores and vaults
• drum trolleys
• absorbent materials
• flammable materials stores
• safety cabinets
  
  

Display Screen Equipment

PCD Maltron

PCD Maltron are a manufacturer of specialist specialist ergonomic keyboards. Products include those designed to:

• Achieve ULD/RSI recovery
• Single handed keyboards
• Keyboards for special needs users
• Expanded keyboards (excellent for visually impaired users).

The site also hosts a numbe of intersting articles:

• A keyboard to increase productivity and reduce postural stress
• Computer related upper limb disorder: - A keyboard to eliminate the stress and the pain
• Keyboards designed to fit hands and reduce postural stress
  
  

Ergonomics

Posturite

This website provides details a number of products to assist with the management of upper limb disorders. Products include:

• Self help manuals - back, neck care and manual handling
• Training videos about posture, back care and manual handling
• Ergonomic posters
• Sostware - CD based training packages examining RSI and WRULD
• Free downloadable programme - "The art of sitting"
  
  

Handcare

Oxford university

This site provides excellent guidance on glove material and their suitability for providing protection against various chemicals is provided. The opening page provides general guidance on the use of gloves and safe working techniques. Links are provided to:

• General guidance on resistance to groups of chemicals
• Guidance on resistance to specific chemicals
• Selection of gloves by material
• Selection of gloves by chemical

The guidance on resistance to specific chemicals includes degregation ratings and permeation breakthrough times, laid out in table form for easy comparison between materials used for glove materials and chemicals.

EnviroDerm Services

Enviroderm services supply products and publications and provide training and support for occupational skin management. Details are also provided of courses and consultancy support .

Laboratories

Rich-mond Agencies

This is the website of Rich-mond a company that buys and sells second hand laboratory plant and equipment.

Materials Handling

Global equipment

Global equipment are suppliers of packaging equipment and materials handling equipment such as pallet trucks, trolleys, skips and conveyors, ladders and lifts, PPE and first aid. They have a range of storage solutions and can provide office and warehouse furniture. We would suggest that you visit the site in conjunction with a catalogue.

Palamatic

This site will be useful to a manual handling assessor or an organisations handling equipment specifier. Palamatic have a variety of powered lifting aids that can be adapted to a vast range of work solutions. It is primarily a site for palamatic products including vacuum lifters, pneumatic clamps and gantry systems and there is a wide variety of accessories that can be attached to the lifting equipment to cope with all manner of loads.

General Safety Product Retailers

Hascombe Enterprises

Details Hascombe and other company products available for puchase.

Regency International Group

The site provides advice, as well as promoting safety products available for puchase over the internet.

It has excellent guidance on selecting eye and face protection including comparisons of BS 2092 and BS EN 166., and a respiartory filter finder. It includes an adobe pdf download file that provides guidance on selecting the correct type of mask and selection of the right filter for the substance concerned.

Safetec Vision

This site details the company catalogue of safety products available for puchase.

If you you require assistance in selecting a suitable safety product or service please contact Degrees of Risk for advice.