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Safety Management (UK)
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Clawthorpe Hall
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Burton in Kendal
LA6 1NU
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Latest News & Events
Here are the latest news items, public announcements, and press releases from Safety Management (UK).
July 08
Marketing Surgery
On 17th September we are hosting a marketing surgery event in association with Showing Off Ltd here at Safety Management.
If you would like a free one-hour consultation with a Chartered Marketer you can book a place by responding to this newsletter. The hour is for anyone who wants to grow their business and wants some free advice. The free sessions will be led by Joanne Allday of Showing Off, who has over ten years experience in marketing and has spent the last four years running her own consultancy.
All attendees will receive a free hour with a Chartered Marketer and the event is for anyone who wants to grow their business and wants some free advice. The event will be led by Joanne Allday of Showing Off, who has over ten years experience in Marketing and has spent the last four years running her own consultancy.
July 08
Total Workplace Management Exhibition
We have just confirmed our place to exhibit at Total Workplace Management at London Olympia on the 8th & 9th of October. Our leader Brian Gregory will be speaking at one of the events on the subject of fire risk assessment. We will be on stand F70 so pop in and see us if you can; we promise to have a fine selection of biscuits available!
More details coming soon.
July 08
Underpinning Your Safety
We have gone safety-pin-mad here at Safety Management (UK). Our new corporate brochure, launched this month, is full of them, with a different safety pin image for each core area of our business. Over the coming months we will be developing the pin theme in all areas of our promotional literature, starting with the new-look website.
Health and safety is a serious business, however we like to think that we offer our customers a refreshing and, dare we say it, fun approach to the subject.
For a free copy of our new brochure, please use this form. We would like to hear your thoughts, good or bad, so feel free to drop us an e-mail when you get it.
July 08
Complying with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order
On Friday 13th June, the Lancaster Guardian ran an article (view it here) warning businesses of the importance of complying with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RRO). Fire risk assessments (FRA) have been a legal requirement since 1997, but the Fire Service are now enforcing them vigorously under the new legislation. We are here to help.
We have worked with a large number of businesses in the Lancaster and surrounding area to ensure that they comply with the RRO. We understand the legislation inside-out, and so know how best to implement it and make it work for your business. We conduct the assessment and have a full written report with significant findings and solutions to those findings back with you in writing within 10 working days.
To discuss your requirements you can e-mail us or call +44 (0)1524 784356
Free fire risk assessment quote - fill out our quote form online and receive a 10% discount on the final estimate
June 08
The Apprentices!
Over the coming 8 weeks we will be working on a marketing project with a team of creative students from Lancaster University. This is a chance for the students to gain valuable practical experience and apply the skills they have acquired during their studies to a real-life business situation.
The project will also allow us to tap into the excellent local knowledge offered by the University, and may lead the way for future collaborations between Safety Management UK and Lancaster University.
June 08
Potential Changes to First Aid at Work
- The 4-day First Aid at Work will be replaced by a 3-day First Aid at Work course. This new 3-day course will only require 1 assessor for up to 6 students and 2 assessors for 7 – 12 students. Existing providers will be able to run with this new qualification. Re-qualification will require a 2-day course every 3 years as it is now.
- The First Aid Appointed Person qualification will be replaced with a new HSE approved 1-day course called the Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) qualification (Minimum of 6 hours). Assessment will be ongoing by the trainer and will not require external or independent assessment. Only HSE approved providers or QCA approved awarding bodies may deliver this qualification. This means that individuals who currently teach the Appointed Person course will either have to become HSE approved or approved with an Awarding Body that currently offers this qualification (at present there are none). Requalification will require going through the full 1-day course every 3 years.
- The HSE are strongly recommending that all students of both the FAW and EFAW qualifications undergo annual refresher training. This is not mandatory.
- Implementation of these new programmes will be October 2009 and no provider can start running with the new programmes until this date.
- A new assessment of First Aid needs in the workplace will be developed by the HSE, and will be posted as soon as their final decision has been made. It is most likely that the medium risk group will be removed.
May 08
Success Report
Having recently run a range of open safety courses, we have scheduled a number of additional ones to run in September.
The Fire Managers course was a great success, with Christine Warren from Appletree Treatment Centre saying “the morning was very informative and the content understandable, the bonus was all the free documentation we received to take back to work that we also found very useful”.
We also ran a Foundation Food Hygiene course and a Manual Handling course which attracted 9 delegates from local businesses. If you have staff that you would like to attend one of our short courses you can book here.
We have another Fire Warden course running on 13th May, 0930–1230 hrs, cost £45 per person plus VAT, book here.
April 08
RRO Prosecutions Increase (average fines of £7,000)
IT WOULD appear that fire and rescue services across England are increasingly resorting to the courts as a means of enforcing the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. The legislation came into force in England and Wales on 1 October 2006 and, from a legal point-of-view, it has tidied up and clarified previous fire safety legislation, such as the Fire Precautions Act 1971 and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997. And there is evidence that more and more fire services are now prosecuting employers and other duty-holders under the Order for non-compliance with enforcement and prohibition notices. More details
April 08
Easter Treat
Jeanette Parkin was the proud winner of the champagne truffle Easter Egg from the last issue of Fire and Ice, our bi-monthly newsletter. This photo shows Jeanette with her prize - apparently it was lovely! If you would like to receive our newsletter and be in with a chance of winning a prize each time, just follow this link to sign up.
Jeanette works with the British Antarctic Survey. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is one of the world's leading environmental research centres and is responsible for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.
April 08
Tea light campaign
A NEW campaign from Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue underlines the potential dangers of using tea light candles. A series of roadshows and community initiatives will stress the need to always use a holder because the foil container of tea lights – which can become very hot as the candle burns – only collects the wax and is not fire resistant.
At the launch of the campaign in February, the fire service used the Harrow Court blaze in Stevenage in 2005 to illustrate the risks. The fire, which claimed the lives of two firefighters and one resident, was started by a tea light left burning on a TV set without a holder.
More information is available from: www.hertsdirect.org/yrccouncil/hcc/fire/
March 08
Pauline Is A Winner
Pauline Crossley was the proud winner of the bottle of champagne from the last issue of Fire and Ice, our bi-monthly newsletter. This photo shows Pauline (on the right) receiving her prize from Safety Management UK's Rebecca Walker.
If you would like to receive our newsletter and be in with a chance of winning a prize each time, just follow this link to sign up.
Pauline works with Cumbria Tourism. Cumbria Tourism has played a major role in rebuilding the visitor economy after Foot and Mouth and has been instrumental in growing visitor numbers to over 16 million per annum. Cumbria Tourism is at the heart of the Cumbria Visitor Economy and is the lead organisation for tourism in the county.
February 08
Fire Safety Webcast
Working in partnership with Cumbria Fire Service, we have put together a webcast offering an insight into the new fire regulations.
It features our very own Brian Gregory in conversation with a Fire Officer, discussing the implications of the Regulatory Reform Order.
Click here to watch the fire safety webcast.
January 08
Expansion - New Cumbria Office
We are proud to announce the opening of a new satellite office for Safety Management UK in Barrow, Cumbria.
The office will function as a point of contact for all our Cumbria-based customers, and will stock our full range of printed and published material. There is also the potential to run training courses from the new premises.
More information will be available soon.
January 08
Extra New Dimension vehicles
FIRE MINISTER Parmjit Dhanda has announced that the fleet of heavy-duty vehicles that fire and rescue services in England use to transport New Dimension equipment around the country during emergencies is to be extended.
Some 48 vehicles (known as prime movers) are being distributed to brigades, adding to the 150 such vehicles already available. The vehicles will be used to transport specialist equipment – including mass decontamination and urban search and rescue (USAR) kit, and high-volume pumping equipment – to deal with major incidents.
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Safety Management (UK)
Holme Suite, Clawthorpe Hall Business Centre, Burton in Kendal LA6 1NU
Tel: +44 (0)1524 784356