Health & Safety Matters

Power within the hour

Power support company,
shentongroup is ensuring that
essential services keep functioning at
Northern Ireland’s Wilson Group
Nursing Home’ Larne Care Home
should a powercut occur with
standby power provided by the
Power

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New catalogue

The 2011 catalogue from BOC, is
now out with more than 500 new
Personal Protective
Equipment (PPE) lines,
including G-Tecta
portable gas detectors,
3M Versaflo Powered Air
Respirators, the Ryval
welding helmet, MSA
s

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Consultancy offering

Arco has extended its customer
offering in safety management
services with the acquisition of ARC
Associates UK (ARC), a UK safety,
health and environmental
consultancy and training
organisation. ARC Safety Services
wi

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Domino theory updated

Managing director of British Safety
Services (BSS), Pat McLoughlin,
has added a 6th domino to the
classic 5 Domino Theory by
unveiling BSS’ new idea on
accident and incident causation.

The traditional 5 worked on the

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Ingress protection 66

Leading rupture disc manufacturer
Elfab has been awarded an Ingress
Protection (IP) rating of 66 for its
ATEX-approved burst detection
system, Flo-Tel+.

Flo-Tel+ is said to be the only
non-invasive, fail-safe detectio

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Who’s the UK worker of the year?

Dickies has announced that John
Stone, from Westerham near
Sevenoaks in Kent has been crowned
as the inaugural UK Worker of the
Year.

The workwear giant launched the
feel-good initiative to recognise
excellence in th

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A new director

Casella Measurement has
announced the appointment of
Adrian Shepherd as its new
managing director.

Adrian has over 20 years boardlevel
strategic management
experience in both UK and
international blue-chip
organisat

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It takes two

Evac+Chair International has
appointed two new members of staff
to provide full support to its Scottish
customer base after the distributor,
DM Wood Medical, went into
receivership.

Steven Wood and Barry
Livingstone,

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Raising the reputation of health & safety

With experience of adminstering a similar scheme for electrical contractors, Emma
Mcarthy welcomes the introduction of the Occupational Safety Consultants Register
(OSCR) and discusses the implications for health and safety

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A sweet combination

Honeywell has announced it will
combine Sperian Protection with
Honeywell Safety Products to form
One Global Personal Protective
Equipment business.

The business will be called
Honeywell Safety Products and will
cont

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