Author: Tom Wood | Date: 05/09/2017
Categories: General
The fire consumed 13,200 houses, 87 churches, St Paul’s Cathedral and most of the city’s municipal buildings in 1666. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the city’s 80,000 inhabitants. However, out of the ashes of the fire arose the first mutual fire insurer. Thankfully fire prevention has improved greatly over the last 350 years as Read More…
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 29/08/2017
Categories: General
You must ensure that any gas appliances (permanent or portable), and gas flues that you own and provide for use by your tenants have regular gas safety checks. For more information see Regulation (36)(1) of the Gas Safety (Installation & Use) Regulations 1998. Gas safety checks are needed by: Landlords Housing associations Local authorities Hotels and B&Bs Colleges Boarding schools Read More…
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 21/08/2017
Food businesses need to ensure that the requirements of food hygiene law are achieved while maintaining a ‘reasonable temperature’ in the workroom. There is not a conflict in law. Generally food hygiene law regulates the temperatures of food while health and safety law regulates the air temperature of the workroom. The few exceptions where hygiene law does specify a maximum Read More…
Author: Tom Wood | Date: 09/08/2017
Categories: General
Though I have been several times before, I had never entered the interior of the country which is only open a few months of the year. Behind the southern volcanoes is a wilderness of glacial blue lakes and a Mars-like landscape that I wanted to see and photograph. Not knowing the area, I booked on a wilderness camping trip which Read More…