A practical guide to water safety equipment for UK sites. It covers the law on drowning risk, how to choose between manual and automatic lifejackets, and how to build a complete lifebuoy point. A four-step kit builder suggests the lifejackets and lifebuoy sets your site needs.
Not sure whether your workplace needs a defibrillator? This guide explains what an AED does, compares fully and semi-automatic models, and covers placement, maintenance and The Circuit.
Not sure which eye wash your workplace needs? This guide explains HSE’s 1 litre guidance, compares bottle stations, cabinets and pod stations, and shows where to place eye wash and how to rinse an eye.
Not sure which first aid kit your workplace needs? This guide compares HSE and BS 8599-1 kits, explains kit sizes by headcount and hazard level, and covers travel kits for drivers and lone workers. Use our kit finder to match your team to the right kit in seconds.
Once the water drops, the real work starts. This guide covers making a site safe, removing standing water, cleaning up, clearing silt from drains, disposing of damaged materials and sandbags, and closing off storm-damaged roads and routes, with the pumps, vacuums, drain rods, sacks, cones and barriers that get a site back to work.
Storm Austen and Storm Boelo brought amber warnings, power cuts and hundreds of flood alerts across the UK. This guide compares sandbags, flood cubes and Boxwall barriers, shows how to build a flood defence that works, and covers the pumps, generators, covers and hi-vis PPE that keep sites running through the next storm.
Petrol or diesel? Compare fuel safety, storage rules, red diesel, running costs, noise, weight and maintenance, then use our quick picker to find the right SIP Medusa generator for your site.
Countersunk or flange head, nylon or steel, zinc plated or stainless? This guide matches each hammer fixing to the job, from battens and conduit clips to ceiling hangers, with sizes, fixture thickness and recommended loads.
Find out what an inverter generator is, how it makes clean, stable power, and whether you need one. Pure sine wave, noise, eco mode and runtime explained, with our SIP Medusa silent inverter generators compared.
Plasterboard has no single safe weight. It depends on the fixing, and on whether the load hangs down the wall or pulls out of it. This guide explains tensile and shear loads, shows how many self-drill fixings you need, and when to fix into a stud instead.
Not sure what size generator you need? Learn how to add up running and start-up watts, what peak and rated output mean, and whether petrol, inverter or diesel suits your site. Includes a size checker and our SIP Medusa range compared.
Grade 5.8 or 8.8, zinc plated or galvanised? This guide explains what the grade numbers mean, which finish suits internal, external and coastal fixings, and matches each to the right chemical anchor stud, with sizes, hole depths and steel resistances.
