HandS Health & Safety Resources is a UK-based health and safety resource site providing links to information, booklets, articles, statutes and downloads on a range of health-and-safety topics, with the emphasis on issues affecting employees in the engineering, construction, manufacturing and clerical fields.  It offers research assistance to Safety Representatives, professionals and those in studies by providing links to pages and booklets across the Internet, on topics such as hazardous substances, manual handling, noise, heights, confined spaces, fire safety, risk assessment and many others.

The information contained on the HandS website is provided free as a public service. Whilst reasonable efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information on the website, I cannot guarantee its correctness or completeness. The information on the website is subject to change and I cannot guarantee that it is up-to-date, particularly as the site is maintained on a voluntary basis.

HandS does not use banner advertising, nor does it receive funding from advertisers or any companies with links found on HandS. Any and all expenses involved in the production of HandS (research time, coding, uploading, internet access charges, et cetera) are met entirely out of my own pocket.

No warranty, guarantee or representation is made by HandS or Dennis Mac as to the correctness, suitability, fitness, or sufficiency of any information contained in the material available from this website. Use of the information means that the user agrees that Dennis Mac will not have, and is released from, any liability whatsoever, however caused or arising, in connection therewith.   

Users acknowledge that it cannot be assumed that all acceptable safety measures are contained in the information or material found on or downloaded through this site, or that additional measures may not be required in the conditions or circumstances that are applicable to the user or his/her organisation, and that the user will personally make his/her own assessment of the information contained in that material.

Users also acknowledge that the information provided is intended only to complement -- not to replace -- any advice or information provided by an accredited health and safety professional.

The site contains links to other sites neither owned nor controlled by HandS or Dennis Mac. Use of these sites is entirely at the risk of the user. (See Privacy Policy below)

Links to commercial sites are provided at the discretion of HandS and only in exchange for links on those sites to HandS Health & Safety Resources, on a purely reciprocal and non-financial basis. HandS has no editorial control over external sites and takes no responsibility whatsoever for the content, views or opinions expressed on those sites. The presence of a link to any site outside of HandS does not imply endorsement or approval by HandS or Dennis Mac, of any content, product or service offered, or any views or opinions expressed within it.

This site and it's contents are protected by British and foreign copyright laws, and belong to HandS UK Health and Safety Resources, contributors and/or third parties. The copyrights in the content are owned by
HandS or other copyright owners who have authorised their use on this site. You may download and reprint content for non-commercial, non-public, personal use only. If you are browsing this site as an employee or member of any business or organisation, you may download and reprint content only for educational or other non-commercial purposes within your business or organisation.

Except as expressly authorised by these Terms of Use, or through the specific permission of Dennis Mac, you may not use, alter, copy, distribute, transmit, or derive another work from any content obtained from this site.

Use of HTML or any other coding to link to images on the server used by HandS so that they display on your page is expressly forbidden.


Contact:
Dennis Mac
hands.uk@gmx.com
- 13 September, 2009 -

This is a privacy policy for HandS Health and Safety Resources website. The homepage on the Web is located at http://www.dennismac.co.uk/hands

As the editor, webmaster and owner of HandS I have adopted the following privacy policy as part of my commitment to protect any personal information which you believe may be obtained through this website or by any other means.

Any change to this privacy policy will be posted on this page and will become effective 1 day after posting. This policy is currently effective from 24 August, 2008.

A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser. I do not use cookies on the HandS website. No cookies are sent by this website or it's webservers. There is no log-in, no registration, no forms and no personal information is collected in any form whatsoever.

This website uses third party web metrics to record the details of your visit (http://www.ritecounter.com/). This involves collecting data such as the pages you have viewed, the browser you have used, and so on. Web metrics data can range from the anonymous (e.g. time/date of visit) to the identifiable (e.g. IP address). It does not identify you personally or your email address. This data provides useful statistics for development of the site as well as supporting the improvement of the site design and functionality. This data is always anonymous, and almost always aggregated. If you access HandS by way of a hardware firewall, a proxy server or any other kind of router (such as a dial-up modem connection at your ISP) then it is the address of the router that will appear in the log and not the address of your computer. Access to HandS web metrics data is only available to the owner, Dennis Mac, and is password protected. This data is not passed on to third parties, and will never be made public.

Confidentiality of data relating to individual visitors to a medical/health website, including their identity, is respected by this website.  The website owner undertakes to honour or exceed the legal requirements of medical/health information privacy that apply in the United Kingdom and the European Union, in which the website is located.

Any email correspondence entered into is considered to be absolutely confidential. Under no circumstances will I pass your email address on to a third party, unless you have specifically asked that I do so.  Should I ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when emailing me, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Please note that this privacy policy does not apply to other websites linked through HandS. HandS contains links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave this site, you should note that I do not have any control over those other websites. I cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Dennis Mac
hands.uk@gmx.com
- 13 September, 2009 -