A very busy year
2016 has been a significant year for all the BSIF Product Groups and Working Groups.
2016 has been a significant year for all the BSIF Product Groups and Working Groups.
The Fit2Fit scheme continues to be a leading initiative for the Federation, helping to drive improvements in RPE fit testing and encouraging best practice.
The Health & Safety Executive published the 2015/16 health and safety statistics on 2nd November. With 1.3 million people working in Great Britain currently suffering from work-related illness, it is clear to see that the statistics support the HSE’s campaign to tackle ill health with the ‘Helping Great Britain Work Well’ initiative.
Western Business Exhibitions and Publishing (WBEP) and the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) are pleased to announce an exciting extension to their 14-year partnership. BSIF has agreed to become a strategic partner for WBEP’s long-standing and successful exhibition series The Health and Safety Event.
The 2017 BSIF Safety Awards will this year be announced at the Health & Safety Event, Birmingham NEC on Thursday 23rd March 2017.
The BSIF is dedicated to eliminating non-compliant, unsafe, counterfeit and illegal safety products from the UK market and provide a quality assurance scheme for the purchase of genuine PPE that will help to keep people safe and healthy at work.
In the first exercise of its kind the British Safety Industry Federation and the British Standards Institute (BSI) have published a joint guidance document for the PPE market.
The Registered Safety Supplier Scheme run by the British Safety Industry Federation has been strengthened so that the Occupational Safety market in the UK can have an assurance that the Personal Protective Equipment that is provided to the workforce provides the protection that it claims.
At the recent Intersec 2017 Exhibition in Dubai BSIF organised the UK safety Pavilion within the show and helped 12 British companies to realise their export potential by taking part in the group.
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