Health & Safety Matters

Emergency lighting guide

Manufacturer and supplier of fire
detection and emergency lighting
systems, Hochiki Europe has
published a free A6 guide to
BS5266, the code of practice for
emergency lighting.

BS5266 provides guidance for
the maximu

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Lessons in safety

Rather than being baffled or put off by health and safety
legislation, a trust which helps young adults with
learning difficulties find work has found embracing the
associated challenges has helped its business thrive

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Security in one handset

Call Systems Technology (CST)
has launched a handset that covers
different forms of messaging and
various alarm functions.

For lone workers and at-risk
staff, the C-3115’s multi-alarm
capabilities deliver extended
se

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Buddy system

mysafety.net (www.mysafety.net),
from Connexion2, enables anyone
working alone to better
communicate with
colleagues by using the
website to share risk
related information
within a defined
community and to
operate an

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Eye in the sky

A new company called Overtec uses
eye in the sky technology to help
managers spot waste and increase
responsiveness from mobile workers
and remote assets.

Joint managing directors David
Armstrong and David Thomas are

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Success for sound level meter

The new Optimus Green
sound level meter from noise
measurement instrument
specialist, Cirrus Research,
has been awarded a Highly
Commended in the British
Safety Industry Federation
(BSIF) Product Innovation
category a

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Sound meters

Castle Group has a new
range of pocket sized sound
meters.

The ‘Sonus’ Sound Level
and Dose meters feature
dual-frequency
measurement suitable for
hearing protection
calculations, data-logging,
and measurements to

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WASPS for COSHH & GHSupdates

ESL has been working on its WASPS
software, which is designed to raise
standards of COSHH awareness
amongst staff, adding new GHS
updates. The system conveys
complicated information from safety
data sheets in an easy-to

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Swift, safe evacuations

According to Means of Escape,
during evacuations the presence of
fire marshals is imperative to
maintain order and carry out the
procedure in as short time as
possible. Research has shown that
occupants react quicker wh

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New products unveiled

Evac+Chair will have two
new products on show at
Health & Safety Scotland.

The first is the Evac+Chair
300H MK4. This new
version of the evacuation chair has
an increased payload capacity of
400lbs /182kg. The compan

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