Leighton Linslade Town Council in conjunction with LB Connect networking group invites businesses in and around Leighton Buzzard and Linslade to attend a FREE networking event.

Come along to Mentmore Golf and Country Club (LU7 0UA) on Wednesday 17th April 2013 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Come along and ;

• promote your business
• share information with likeminded business people
• meet local business networking groups
• develop links in the local business community
• see what business support is available to you

To register visit www.leightonlinslade-tc.gov.uk or contact Jo Martindale on 01525 631911 or email partnership@leightonlinslade-tc.gov.uk

We look forward to seeing you there.

Bob Chandler – Chairman of LB Connect.

We have places available on the 4 day IOSH Managing Safely course to be held in Leighton Buzzard. The cost is ONLY £550 per person plus VAT, this includes all IOSH fees, certification and refreshments. 

Course dates: 14th & 15th, 21st and 22nd March 2013.

Apart from good health and safety advice it is important that your staff play their part in the process. To do this they need the knowledge and tools to tackle the health and safety issues for which they are responsible.

Course outline:

1. Introducing managing safely

Some managers may see health and safety as an add-on to their role –even an intrusion. The first module makes it clear that managers are accountable for their teams, and makes a persuasive case for managing safely.

 2. Assessing risks

This module defines and demystifies ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and delegates carry out a series of assessments.

 3. Controlling risks

Here the session tackles cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks, and how to choose the right method.

 4. Understanding your responsibilities

This module looks at the demands of the law and how the legal system works, and introduces a health and safety management system.

 5. Identifying hazards

All the main issues any operation has to deal with are covered in this module – entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise, housekeeping and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, working at height, computers and manual handling.

 6. Investigating accidents and incidents

The session starts with why accidents should be investigated, and goes on to cover why things go wrong, and how to carry out an investigation when they do.

 7. Measuring performance

This module explains how checking performance can help to improve health and safety. Delegates learn how to develop basic performance indicators, and get to grips with auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.

 8. Protecting our environment

A short but effective introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts.

Delegates who successfully complete the written and practical assessments at the end of the course are awarded an IOSH certificate in Managing Safely.

Written assessment is “closed book” and consists of a mixture of multiple choice and short written answers – held on the last day of the course.

Practical assessment – Delegates chose an area in their organisation on which to conduct the assessment. They have 2 weeks from the last day of the course to submit their practical assessment.

We can also provide closed cousres at your premises or other venues.

For more information or to book please contact us on enruiries@hascak.co.uk

The HSE has issued the first Fee For Intervention (FFI) invoices for the first two months of its operation.

The invoices total £727,644.81 and were for 1st October to 30th November 2012 generated from 1,419 invoices.

The figure is lower than expected based upon the HSE’s estimate that the scheme would generate £37 million over the year. This has been put down to inspectors still dealing with cases that started before the introduction of the scheme and the scheme being new.

The HSE state that all FFI will be in accordance with their Enforcement Policy and Enforcement management Model and that they have no targets for the level of receipts from FFI.

Help support 3 great charities and have a great night out.

Blues before Midnight and The Palms are performing for charity on 21^st December at Brooklands Social Club, Leighton Buzzard. 7:30 – 11:30 pm.

 ALL proceeds going to 3 charities: Resolution, Willen Hospice and Keech Hospice Care.

Tickets only £10 each from Brooklands Social Club or Mike Neary infomike@bluesbeforemidnight.co.uk 

Come and enjoy a night of great music and help support 3 great charities

At the Keech Hospice Care Volunteers Thank You evening held on 27^th September Bob & Sue Chandler of HASCAT Safety Ltd. received their 5 year service award.

Bob & Sue run Leighton based HASCAT Safety Ltd and have donated 8 health and safety training days per year for the last 5 years to the hospice. By delivering this training as volunteers the hospice can use the funds for the care of their patients.  

We are proud of our support for Keech and will continue to support them in the years to come.

For more details about Keech please see: http://www.keech.org.uk/

HASCAT Safety is running an IOSH Managing Safely Course for Keech Hospice Care at their hospice near Luton. There are some places avaliable for other companies to attend. For every non-Keech delegate on the course HASCAT Safety will make a donation of £100 to the hospice. 

The cost is ONLY £550 per person plus VAT, this includes all IOSH fees, certification and refreshments

The dates are: 4th, 5th, 13th and 14th December 2012

Apart from good health and safety advice it is important that your staff play their part in the process. To do this they need the knowledge and tools to tackle the health and safety issues for which they are responsible.

Course outline:

1. Introducing managing safely

Some managers may see health and safety as an add-on to their role –even an intrusion. The first module makes it clear that managers are accountable for their teams, and makes a persuasive case for managing safely.

 2. Assessing risks

This module defines and demystifies ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and delegates carry out a series of assessments.

 3. Controlling risks

Here the session tackles cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks, and how to choose the right method.

 4. Understanding your responsibilities

This module looks at the demands of the law and how the legal system works, and introduces a health and safety management system.

 5. Identifying hazards

All the main issues any operation has to deal with are covered in this module – entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise, housekeeping and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, working at height, computers and manual handling.

 6. Investigating accidents and incidents

The session starts with why accidents should be investigated, and goes on to cover why things go wrong, and how to carry out an investigation when they do.

 7. Measuring performance

This module explains how checking performance can help to improve health and safety. Delegates learn how to develop basic performance indicators, and get to grips with auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.

 8. Protecting our environment

A short but effective introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts.

Delegates who successfully complete the written and practical assessments at the end of the course are awarded an IOSH certificate in Managing Safely.

Written assessment is “closed book” and consists of a mixture of multiple choice and short written answers – held on the last day of the course.

Practical assessment – Delegates chose an area in their organisation on which to conduct the assessment. They have 2 weeks from the last day of the course to submit their practical assessment.

We can also provide closed cousres at your premises or other venues.

For more information or to book please contact us on enruiries@hascak.co.uk

Lion Steel Ltd has been sentenced to a fine of £480,000 for the corporate manslaughter of 45-year-old Steven Berry.

Steven Berry fell through a fragile roof panel and tragically died as a result of injuries sustained in falling 12m on 29 May 2008.

Mr Berry worked as a maintenance worker at the company, in Johnsonbrook Road, which produces steel cabinets and shelving.

Greater Manchester Police, which carried out a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), said Mr Berry fell through a perspex sheet in a roof he was trying to fix and landed on a stone floor.

The investigation found that Lion Steel never offered health and safety training to Mr Berry and it also emerged that considerable sections of the roof were fragile.

No risk assessment was made to any employee working on the roof, the investigation found.

The court ordered Lion Steel to pay the fine in four annual instalments by September 2015, – £100,000 by September 2012; £150,000 by the following September; £150,000 by September 2014; and £80,000 by September 2015.

They were also ordered the company to pay prosecution costs of £84,000 within two years.

The Federation of Small Businesses has just announced that LB Connect has been chosen as a Finalist in the Networking Group of the Year category in the FSB Business Awards 2012. LB Connect is delighted to have been given this honour. The ultimate winners in Bedfordshire will be announced at a glittering awards ceremony on June 13th.

LB CONNECT

Since SW Beds MP Andrew Selous officially launched LB Connect in September 2010, this business networking group has continued to grow and thrive. LB Connect is wholly independent, non-profit and community minded and raises impressive sums for local charities, while achieving direct member referrals of £350,000+ in its first 15 months.

Want to join the group? See www.lbconnect.co.uk

We have places available on the 4 day IOSH Managing Safely course to be held in Leighton Buzzard. The cost is ONLY £550 per person plus VAT, this includes all IOSH fees, certification and refreshments. 

Course dates: 26th & 27th April, 3rd & 4th May 2012.

Apart from good health and safety advice it is important that your staff play their part in the process. To do this they need the knowledge and tools to tackle the health and safety issues for which they are responsible.

Course outline:

1. Introducing managing safely

Some managers may see health and safety as an add-on to their role –even an intrusion. The first module makes it clear that managers are accountable for their teams, and makes a persuasive case for managing safely.

 2. Assessing risks

This module defines and demystifies ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’. Risk assessments and a simple scoring system are introduced, and delegates carry out a series of assessments.

 3. Controlling risks

Here the session tackles cutting risks down, concentrating on the best techniques to control key risks, and how to choose the right method.

 4. Understanding your responsibilities

This module looks at the demands of the law and how the legal system works, and introduces a health and safety management system.

 5. Identifying hazards

All the main issues any operation has to deal with are covered in this module – entrances and exits, work traffic, fire, chemicals, electricity, physical and verbal abuse, bullying, stress, noise, housekeeping and the working environment, slips, trips and falls, working at height, computers and manual handling.

 6. Investigating accidents and incidents

The session starts with why accidents should be investigated, and goes on to cover why things go wrong, and how to carry out an investigation when they do.

 7. Measuring performance

This module explains how checking performance can help to improve health and safety. Delegates learn how to develop basic performance indicators, and get to grips with auditing and proactive and reactive measuring.

 8. Protecting our environment

A short but effective introduction to waste and pollution leads into a look at how organisations and individual managers can get involved in cutting down environmental impacts.

Delegates who successfully complete the written and practical assessments at the end of the course are awarded an IOSH certificate in Managing Safely.

Written assessment is “closed book” and consists of a mixture of multiple choice and short written answers – held on the last day of the course.

Practical assessment – Delegates chose an area in their organisation on which to conduct the assessment. They have 2 weeks from the last day of the course to submit their practical assessment.

We can also provide closed cousres at your premises or other venues.

For more information or to book please contact us on enruiries@hascak.co.uk