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BSG launched its new secure information area which is exclusive for Members during March. Users now have access to this new facility and are able to view the latest health, safety and environmental information provided through: BSG’s monthly newsletter HSE Blitz notices New legislation updates BSG Safety Alerts Seminar/Webinar presentations (e.g. CDM 2015 & Occupational Health) Members

Following the success of last year, the BSG Annual Awards will be taking place on October 19th 2016 at the Williams F1 Conference Centre in Oxfordshire. Further information regarding awards categories and how to self nominate will be published soon.  

IOSH’s No Time To Lose campaign aims to get carcinogenic exposure issues more widely understood and help businesses take action. The campaign is working to: raise awareness of a significant health issue facing workers in the UK and internationally suggest some solutions on a UK scale to tackle the problem – a national model that

On February 2016, new Health and Safety sentencing guidelines for England and Wales were put into place. Theses guidelines cover Health and Safety, corporate manslaughter, food safety and hygiene cases. The penalties have been categorised depending on the size of the businesses. Please see below Directors of businesses that are found guilty of consent, convenience

Sherri Masson joins the Building Safety Group as a Health and Safety Adviser with a wealth of construction health and safety knowledge having come from a leading construction company. Sherri has a passion for health and safety and is NEBOSH qualified and a Tech IOSH member. Based in Dorset she will be looking after our

CSkills have recently announced the addition of the new category A17E Telescopic Handler in 2016 to cover the lifting and transport of suspended loads with telehandlers. The new endorsement was launched on 4 January 2016. The category has been bought in as a response to the growing confusion on a number of sites over using telehandlers with suspended

Paul Kimpton, MD of the Building Safety Group commented in the January edition of Planning and Building Controls Today. He considered the challenges companies have to complying with the recently updated Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations. CDM 2015 is now in full force. Significant changes to these regulations promise a better framework for improving health

We are pleased to announce that we are running a number of Health and Safety courses in Salisbury, Exeter and Cardiff. We will be running the following accredited courses; Site Managers Site Safety Scheme Site Managers Site Safety Scheme Refresher Site Supervisers Site Safety Scheme Site Supervisers Site Safety Scheme Refresher Health and Safety Awareness

January saw the successful delivery of BSG’s Occupational Health Seminar in Warwick and the first of many webinars on the same subject. BSG’s first webinar on Occupational Health was well attended, not only because of the importance of the subject area but also because webinars enable you to take part no matter where you are