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Short for 'Driver Certificate of Professional Competence', CPC is an initiative that promotes safety among drivers by making regular training a mandatory requirement. Here are 10 key things you need to know about CPC, and what it means for you and your business… 1. All professional drivers in charge of vehicles weighting 3.5 tonnes or more must be able to pr ... more
A Wigtown-based sawmilling firm has been fined for safety failings after a worker was seriously injured when he fell eight feet through a fragile roof light to the ground below. Tony Heron, then 56, was employed by Penkiln Sawmill Company Ltd and was putting tin sheets on the roof of a lean-to shed at the company’s Wigtown premises when the incident occurred in February 2013. St ... more
A West London roofing firm found itself in court facing a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution after it allowed employees to work on roofs in sites in Harrow and Ealing with no safety measures to protect them from potentially fatal falls. Magistrates were told that an inspector from HSE came across the first instance in March 2013 and identified workers re-roofing a property i ... more
The owner of a solar panel business has been fined for safety failings after two brothers fell 15ft through a fragile roof. Brynley Perrett, 37, suffered a compression fracture of his back and sternum in the incident at at a farm, near Trellech, Monmouthshire, in June, 2013. His brother Anthony, was fortunate to escape injury. They were installing solar panels on a building at the farm on b ... more
A Glasgow-based company has been fined £200,000 over the death of a worker who was thrown from a cherry-picker in East Ayrshire. SW Global Resourcing admitted breaching health and safety laws over the death of 47-year-old Leslie Watson, who was carrying out maintenance work on the Annick Water Viaduct in Stewarton in April 2010 when the raised platform overturned. Mr Watson consequently die ... more
The sales team is celebrating after East Village Management Ltd, who manage the 2012 Olympic Village made three large purchases of access equipment – Facelift’s largest order of 2014. The firm bought a Nifty HR21 4x4 Hy Brid, a Genie GS1932 Electric Scissor and an FS420 Spider 42m tracked platform. Russell Woodward, Sales Manager at Facelift, said: “Naturally, we&rsq ... more
As the 10th September deadline fast approaches, our Driver CPC courses continue to be in high demand across all eight of our training centres. And the reason for the high demand? We’ve done what our customers wanted and developed a way for their staff to get trained up and achieve the mandatory CPC requirements in the most efficient way possible. Our customers highlighted the challen ... more
Minister for disabled people, Mark Harper, spoke out last month, appealing to staff at events and attractions to not ruin people’s enjoyment of the bank holiday weekend by imposing absurd rules. Mr Harper is reported as being annoyed by a decision from the Crufts dog show in Keswick, Cumbria to ban the contests in which dogs caught Frisbees, in case one of the animals was injured. Other exa ... more
Bouygues Energies & Services group has brought on ZT Safety Systems – the brainchild of Facelift founder Gordon Leicester – to provide a bespoke safety solution for the street lighting group. ZT Safety Systems ltd design and manufacture the award winning ZT Safety Harness that has completely revolutionized the way a fall safety harness works. Its design removes the need for groin ... more
Work is due to resume on Eastbourne’s fire-damaged pier following the death of a workman. Stephen Penrice, aged 44, from Cumbria, was pronounced dead at the scene after falling on to the beach last month. The pier has been sealed off since the incident, but Sussex Police said that they have now finished their forensic investigations and the site has been released back to the owner Cuerden ... more
