• Euroweek – Lighten the Load, 22nd – 26th October
• Free Driver Profiler trial
• Jobs flash
• Web pages that make a difference
• News Flash: RoSPA announce NEW dates for Construction Certificate
• Be part of RoSPA's response to 'Staying Safe'
• Spotlight on Health and Social Sector
  

This year’s HSE European Week campaign ‘Lighten the Load’ is dedicated to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The aim of the campaign is to support the improvement of prevention of MSDs.

You may be planning or supporting events within your organisation that we can help with. Here at RoSPA we have over 90 years experience in the health and safety field and are ideally placed to provide support for your organisation.

RoSPA’s specialist range of courses and resources include:

Manual Handling and Postural Awareness Manual Handling Trainers and Assessors DSE Assessors and Ergonomic Principles Safer People Handling suite of courses designed specifically for the health care sector, including Safer People Handling Trainers and the new Haptonomics Foundations course.

Ensure your employees have all the information they need with one of RoSPA’s informative leaflets, or display a helpful reminder where everyone has access.



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The human, legal and economic consequences of the failure to manage occupational road risk make it an obligation not an option. More people are killed in ‘at work’ road accidents than in all other occupational accidents put together.

As part of RoSPA’s MORR service we offer the award winning Driver Profiler, an on-line psychometric risk assessment tool.

Priced at only £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.

For three free Driver Profiler trials and for more information please call our team on 0121 248 2084 or email fleetsolutions@rospa.com

Job title: Senior Teaching Fellow
Department: Warwick Medical School, Coventry
Sub-department: Institute of Clinical Education, Directorate of Masters Accredited Programmes
Responsible for: Teaching, Co-ordination and Educational Development in Occupational Health and Safety
Salary: £33,779 - £40,335 pa (pro-rata)
Hours: Part-time – up to 0.7 FTE
Reference number: 59551-087
Closing date: 5th October 2007
Interview date: 17th October 2007

This post requires you to fill in an application form.

To receive a hard copy application pack, please contact Personnel Services, on +44(0)24 7652 3685 (24 hour answer phone), or by e-mail to Recruit@warwick.ac.uk.

If you are interested in placing an advert with Safety Connections, please call 0121 248 2138 for details.

RoSPA reserves the right to refuse adverts.

The RoSPA’s Occupational catalogue 2007 is available online as a PDF to browse easily. The catalogue contains resources, training courses membership details and more, portraying our aims to raise awareness, stimulate change and make life safer not only in the workplace, but also at home, on the roads, in water, leisure and play activities. Access the full Occupational catalogue now.

For more information or to obtain a hard copy of our catalogue, please email sales@rospa.com

An additional date for RoSPA’s newest NEBOSH course is confirmed, and commences on October 1st. The NEBOSH qualification is both for those who are tasked with providing advice and health and safety support on a day-to-day basis and those with construction management responsibilities.

Click to request a FREE course programme or to find out more information online. Alternatively ring the booking hotline on 0121 248 2233.

To find out details of dates in 2008, please contact us today.

New date for Construction Design Management Course October 31st - Make sure you keep up to date with RoSPA’s special one-day course. Having been involved in consultations to help develop the new regulations, RoSPA is now ideally placed to communicate the changes to safety managers.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families has recently launched a consultation document ‘Staying Safe’. RoSPA’s risk education adviser, Jenny McWhirter, is co-ordinating RoSPA’s response to the consultation. As part of that response we would like to include the views of young people, RoSPA members and all those interested in promoting the safety and well being of children and young people.

The consultation document can be accessed via the web, along with a version for young people.

If you have any views you would like RoSPA to consider for inclusion in our comments please send these to consultation@rospa.com

The consultation closes on 31st October 2007, but to ensure your views are included in RoSPA’s response please send us your response by the 30th September.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Staff sickness in the health and social sector remains problematic. The sector has a higher than average prevalence rate of work-related illness, and the causes are clear to see:

FACT: In 2005/06, 55% of major injuries to employees in the health services were a result of slips or trips
FACT: 14% were handling, lifting or carrying injuries
FACT: 12% resulted from physical assault
FACT: Rates for stress, infections and dermatitis are well above the average for this sector

RoSPA’S consultancy service has been a prolific source of health and safety advice for all sectors and leading companies for decades. We work within the health and social sector alongside organisations, striving to support corporate goals and strategies with heath and safety confidence and compliance.

We have identified the following RoSPA consultancy services that can help manage the risks in this sector:

Please call 0121 248 2083 now for the all the details, including prices, availability and information on how RoSPA can help you become legally compliant, safer in your environment and competent in your management practices.

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.