The hit BBC drama ‘Line of Duty’ has recently returned to our screens and episode five has left us with the biggest cliff-hanger yet. However, the story that we should all be focused on is Steve Arnott’s painkiller addiction. The elephant in the room. The not-so-secret issue. Hastings knows and it seems the occupational health…
On 1st October 2016, a 38-year-old man was working alone at a construction site in West Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan. He was operating a dumper truck around the site, which had no designated traffic routes, when the vehicle overturned causing him to be thrown to the ground. He was discovered dead two days after the…
Road Safety Week is the UK’s biggest road safety event, organised each year by Brake, the Road Safety Charity. The theme this year is ‘No Need to Speed’ which was selected following the results of their online survey , ‘How safe are the streets where you live?’. The survey which was answered by over 1,700…
D.tec International Ltd. are delighted to announce that we are now able to offer various distance learning solutions. Our new online, digital training portal has been developed to give organisations and individual employees the chance to complete the DrugWipe Dual screener training at a time which is convenient to them. As the portal is a…
The following video shares best practice and key messages surrounding the topic of more drugs than drink on our roads from senior industry professionals. Exploring recent statistics on the increase in drug-driving versus drink-driving, the impact this has on road safety, and the significant influence Covid-19 has had on increased drug and alcohol consumption and…
he Global Drugs Survey1,one of the UK’s longest running data sets, has reported big rises in drinking during the Covid-19 pandemic. The figures show that out of those who do drink, almost half reported drinking earlier in the day, more than half reported consuming alcohol on more days of the week than usual and a…
Opiate pain killers principally Codeine are used by 1 in 10 adults in the UK and whilst they are effective at reducing pain in the short term, it is highly likely that when used overtime patients will ask to have their dosage increased with the potential of eventually transitioning to stronger options. This escalation in…
Health & Safety Objectives It is important that organisations continue to prioritise employee health and safety. This includes the continuation of vital drug and alcohol screening procedures in order to protect employees and the wider public whilst working and also reduce the impact on other healthcare and emergency services. Please be aware that Police forces…
Repeated or daily use of high strength “skunk” grade cannabis can increase the likelihood of psychotic episodes or schizophrenia by up to 5 times that of someone who doesn’t smoke cannabis. To put this in perspective, in London, 95% of cannabis smoked is the skunk grade of 14% or more THC and a fifth (21%)…
How do you define ‘Value’ in the procurement process? Value versus initial cost? Too often, people don’t make sufficient effort to look for Value and lowest cost wins. It is the distraction on good procurement despite major lessons not learnt from the likes of Carillion’s collapse and the cheap cladding causing the Grenfell Tower tragedy.…