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World Mental Health Day

Mental health is an integral aspect of Landscape Juice, and is something that rears its face often within the community - working alone, long days, especially during the winter is isolating and takes its toll. The network was founded on the idea of i

Started by Fleur Voice in Health and Safety

4 Replies · Reply by My Garden Design Oct 11

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Garden Maintenance Risk assessment templates

Hi guys

My name is dave and I was wondering if anyone has any garden Maintence templates that can be downloaded as heath and safty company did supply but here charges are to much and as making the buiness a bit smaller just need to do enough to keep

Started by Nigel Gillam in Health and Safety

4 Replies · Reply by Nigel Gillam Aug 30

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Landscape Gardening Business Management Software

Hello everyone, I’m Marc from Custom Quoter and have been talking to Henry, Gary and the team at LJN, He mentioned that there are often threads discussing landscapers/landscaping software.
We wanted to create this discussion to have some direct conta

Started by Marc Mazure in Design, Accountancy, and Health and Safety

26 Replies · Reply by Marc Mazure Aug 26

glyphosate

came accross this today

Glyphosate 'is not carcinogenic,' concludes major study (brusselstimes.com)

Started by David Benson in Health and Safety

3 Replies · Reply by Honey Badger Jul 29

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The Lightest mowers 22 inch . Petrol or Cordless

I have a mowing job which entails having to literally carry my petrol mower up and down some very steep garden steps .

The mower weighs 40 kg and lifting it has started to cause me back and knee problems .

I realise the recommended safe lifting weig

Started by John F in Health and Safety

19 Replies · Reply by Keith Jun 30

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On site risk assessment apps/Jobber

Hi,

We are looking for an app we can use to upload our risk assessment templates to that we can fill in on site via phone or tablets.

We use Jobber for all our other scheduling, invoicing etc but now have a few contracts that require pictures and ris

Started by Si @ GS in Health and Safety

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Income Protection

Hi Folks,

I've been away for a while through many things and happenings. Anyway, I have a question relating to Income Protection.

For a few years I've had it with a company called The Exeter through a broker employed by Eunisure. I tried to claim early

Started by Karsten Tomkins in Health and Safety, Consumer, and Deals

18 Replies · Reply by Karsten Tomkins Jan 21

Noise cancellation

Does anyone use noise-cancellation ear protectors and have recommendations? I was thinking of earbuds, as I use a quad bike sometimes, with a helmet that would get in the way of standard ear protectors. I also usually wear a hat (my bald head gets

Started by Neil Ruddick in Health and Safety

5 Replies · Reply by Neil Ruddick Jan 14

Best gloves for snowball fights?

Any recommendations?

Started by Tim Wallach in Health and Safety, Clothing, and Info

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Do you wear safety boots?

When I started out the answer was "no". After one of two incidents the answer is "definitely".

Yesterday clearing leaves by a tennis court the blower luckily revealed this under a pile of leaves - it was pure luck that the blower cleared the leaves be

Started by Adam Woods in Groundscare and Health and Safety

9 Replies · Reply by Ben Carter Nov 28, 2020

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do you carry a wheel barrow on top of your vehicle ?

Probably sounds daft but i have to travel with a full load and my wheel barrow nearly fills up my small van .

The roof bars are too far apart to accept the length of my wheelbarrow so i am thinking about first securing a ladder on the top and then se

Started by John F in Health and Safety

9 Replies · Reply by Adam Woods Nov 2, 2020

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Posted by My Garden Design on October 18, 2021 at 11:09am in Industry news

Good Morning LJN'ers

I thought I'd share with you a sneaky preview of the blog I plan to publish on the MGD website later this week. It's a case study.

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New blog - how to get best value from a site visit

Posted by My Garden Design on October 11, 2021 at 11:27am

Quoting for new work is incredibly time consuming. There are the phone calls, the emails, the drive to site and then the time spend with potential clients without knowing for sure whether or not you have the job in the bag.

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