productINVISTA’s CORDURA brand
team welcomes Catherine
Anderson Jones as the marketing
communications manager for the
Performance and Protective Fabrics
division in Europe. In her new role,
Anderson Jones will be responsible
for management of all European
marketing communications
activities through developing,
maintaining and growing
marketing support relationships.
productTilsatec, the manufacturer of Rhino
cut resistant gloves and sleeves, has
appointed Niall Desbottes as
business development manager for
the South. Niall joins Tilsatec after a
successful period at Marigold
Industrial and brings with him a
wealth of experience and expertise in
hand and arm protection.
productPreston-based
construction safety
firm Aegis has
appointed Peter
Gregory as a health
and safety
consultant to
spearhead its
expansion into
specialised areas of health and safety
risk management. Aegis, which
employs one of the North’s largest
teams of independent Construction
Design and Management (CDM)
Co-ordinators, has also been
growing its health and safety
compliance services in recent years.
productPhillip Pearson has joined IIRSMin
the new role of deputy chief executive;
he will also be responsible for
membership and new
business development
activities. Phillip has
almost 20 years of
experience working for a
range of high profile
professional bodies. Most
recently he was group
director for Learning and
Member Services at RICS (the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors).
productCapital Safety, home of the
DBI-SALA and
PROTECTA brands of fall
protection equipment, has
appointed Thierry Moens
and Stefan Haase
as country
managers in
France and
Germany
respectively. They
will take
responsibility for
achieving
localised growth
within the French
and German
markets, and
alongside the UK
this will spearhead Capital
Safety’s expansion through
EMEA.
productFilm and television equipment
supplier Bickers Action provides
tracking vehicles and on-set support
for the film industry. Involved in big
budget movies such as James Bond,
Batman and Harry Potter, it has been
depending on Kee Safety fittings to
ensure its filming kit is securely
assembled. The Kee Klamp and Kee
Lite fittings were chosen for their
versatility, durability and strength.
producthand tool, and particularly a safety
knife, is a very personable item. The
feel of it, the weight, the grip, the ease
with which it
cuts, are all very
important
issues to the
user as well as
to the safety officer.
productCE marking becomes a mandatory
requirement in the UK for technical
insulation products manufactured
and sold in the EU from 1st July
2013. With Armaflex products,
Armacell has been providing CE –
certified flexible insulation materials
since the beginning of 2012. Now,
the company has announced that its
Armaflex Ultima product range is
the first flexible insulation material
to achieve a fire class BL -s1,
d0 (in tube form, or B -s2,
d0 in sheet form) rating
within the harmonised
t
productJSP is issuing a stark and
urgent warning to procurers,
site managers and users of
safety helmets to check them
immediately to make sure
they are genuine, following
the discovery of dangerously
poor-quality counterfeits.
productHenkel has expanded its
Loctite health and safety
range of non-hazardous
engineering adhesives. The
three hazard-label-free
cyanoacrylates or instant
adhesives, are clean and easy
to apply for fast positioning
and fixturing of parts.
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