As well as enforcing standards, the
safety officer saw his job as providing an awareness among the workforce of safety standards and safety procedures.
TWO primary school pupils have been appointed as the Middlesbrough's first junior road
safety officers Hemlington Hall Academy 10-year-olds Jamie Johnson and Bradley Proctor will work with an adult helper from the school to encourage fellow students to stay safe near roads.
There are 32 sanctioned posts of food
safety officers of which 20 posts have been lying vacant for more than a year now.
Lisa Judge, defending Henry, asked: "Did anybody ever sit you down and tell you what your health and safety responsibilities were?" He replied: "No." She asked: "Were you ever appointed full time health and
safety officer?" He said: "No." Miss Judge said: "Do you feel you failed to take reasonable care for yourself and others?" He replied: "No.
As a health and
safety officer, you get the opportunity to really have an impact and go into workplaces changing things for the better.
North Tyneside is working towards getting all its primary schools involved in the junior road
safety officer scheme.
Road
safety officers, police, teachers and children have been using cones to stop motorists from parking outside schools.
At the official launch of the Junior Road
Safety Officer scheme, the newly-elected
safety officers explained the role they will play in promoting road safety to an invited audience, including Monmouthshire councillors, David Davies AM and road safety officials.
Drivers who moved motorway cones are being blamed for a horror crash which claimed the life of a traffic
safety officer called out to investigate.
David Rogers, senior road
safety officer with Birmingham-based Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said: 'This is totally inappropriate.
The court ordered DIG Operations Lahore to arrest the witnesses including Food
Safety Officer Yasir Arafat,