• Corporate Manslaughter Bill goes forward
• Do you want to reduce your absence costs? Learn from the best...
• Coming soon... National Certificate in Construction Safety and Health
• Keeping safety in mind: The psychometric risk assessment
• Spotlight on Scotland – QSA course
• Update: Extra dates in Birmingham for Work Placement Course
• Directors’ Health and Safety Responsibilities Conference – Scotland
• Surfing to safety
  
  

As expected, the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill was passed by the House of Lords and goes forward for Royal Assent. See full story on the progress of this law.

Success at the RoSPA Awards is not the only reward that Marshalls West Lane Works Landscape Division has experienced.

The Halifax-based site has generated notable achievements including a reduction in absence and fewer insurance claims, leading to lower premiums.

The improvements are thanks to their persistent efforts to create an environment where people feel safe and valued.

Now viewed as a leader in the management of health and safety, West Lane Works provides an admirable success story.

Please click here for the full case study.

Are you the competent person in health and safety?
Do you want to earn a qualification with a leading training provider?
Have you built up any CPD points yet?

This RoSPA course, spread over three weeks, can help you achieve your goals. Week one commences on 10th September*, for more information call 0121 248 2233 or email: training@rospa.com

Accompanied by our skills and services, the globally recognised NEBOSH Certificate in Construction is designed specifically for the construction industry, and will help you make sure activities under your control are undertaken safely.

*Subject to accreditation

Keeping safety in mind: The psychometric risk assessment

The award winning Driver Profiler is an on-line psychometric risk assessment tool that has been developed by RoSPA: the experts in health and safety.

Priced at £15 per assessment, Driver Profiler measures attitude and behaviour, enabling employers to cost-effectively risk-assess their workforce at any computer that is connected to the Internet.

Don’t suffer the human, legal and financial consequences of poor occupational road risk management. Try RoSPA’s free driver profiler trial today.

For more information call the driver and fleet team on 0121 248 2084.

Spotlight on Scotland – QSA course

If you are a professional in a position to perform an audit of your organisation’s safety management systems, then this unique Quality Safety Audit Training (QSA) course is for you.

Developed by RoSPA, the QSA system has been designed to provide a complete health and safety management audit system.

This 5-day QSA course can train a member of staff to become an approved auditor for your company. The course also trains delegates on the use of ORBIT, RoSPA’s new audit software, which is designed to facilitate quick and efficient auditing and reporting upon return to the workplace.

To find out all the details, please contact:
Tel: 0121 248 2233 or
Email: training@rospa.com

Previously in Safety Connections, the new IOSH Work Placement Training course in Edinburgh was announced. RoSPA has now added new dates in Birmingham.

Specifically designed to help those who arrange, monitor or administer work experience placements, this course will run on the 24th and 25th of September.

Successful delegates who pass the practical and written assessments will be awarded a certificate from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). On the course you will gain sufficient knowledge to be able to assess a workplace to determine its suitability for a placement student in terms of health and safety.

Courses also available to run inside your own organisation.

For a booking form click here or to request further details please contact:
Email: osh@rospa.com
Tel: 0121 248 2233.

From Liability to Leadership

Following on from the huge success of RoSPA’s first ever Directors’ Health and Safety Responsibilities Conference, we are pleased to bring this highly topical event to Glasgow. The conference will address how the change in the law to allow corporations to be prosecuted for unlawful killing will impact businesses in a Scottish context. In addition delegates will learn more about HSE’s policy of always considering prosecutions of directors under Section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work Act in cases involving serious and fatal injuries.

To ensure you are fully briefed on all these important changes book your place now and save with a 20% early bird discount.

Hilton Hotel - Glasgow, 26th September 2007

More than one in three road crashes involve young people under twenty. It is not always easy for any of us to appreciate our speed, and how easily driving too fast can get us into trouble, but now there are a few ways to assess this easily online using new interactive software – a way which could appeal to this younger age group in particular. Take a look at the following sites, and, if you like them, why not recommend them to family and others to take a look?

RoSPA's online interactive simulator is available to test now at www.stoppingdistances.org.uk and www.deadlymates.com and www.checkyourspeed.org.uk are websites battling for the prevention of such tragedies created by the Midlands & South Wales Safety Camera Partnership.

Another useful site to challenge young drivers is www.roadar.org/youngdrivers/challenge.htm

Organisations wishing to sponsor an issue, advertise a vacancy or share success stories can contact
e-letter@rospa.com.

RoSPA is an independent charity and a uniquely comprehensive safety organisation. As a RoSPA Member you will be supporting our mission to save lives through preventing accidents in all walks of life. RoSPA Members also enjoy a range of benefits to help you to achieve your own safety goals, so join RoSPA today and see how we can help you.

You can also support RoSPA by arranging fundraising activities, or through a simple donation. RoSPA also have many sponsorship opportunities.