Fully Funded Construction / Plant NVQs in the Black Country

Essential Site Skill is currently advertising the availability of fully-funded access to Construction and Plant NVQs in the Black Country. More specifically, in East Riding of Yorkshire, Greater Lincolnshire, and Tees Valley in conjunction with Calderdale College.

There are also free NVQs to upgrade to a blue CSCS or CPCS card.

As Essential Site Skills explains in an email, "We can now provide Construction SMEs based in the above locations with less than 250 employees free construction NVQs through our Skills Support for the Workforce programme, funded by the European Social Fund. Participants must be legally resident in the UK or able to take employment in a European Union Member State."

If you would like further information, please call 0115 8970 529 or email training@essentialsiteskills.com

Health risks in construction activities event October 12th

On October 12th IOSH is holding an event titled "Improve your understanding of the health risks involved in construction activities."

The event will be held at Millwall Football Club in London, and it starts at 8am and runs until 4pm. The cost is $90 +VAT for IOSH members, otherwise it's £108 +VAT.

There will be lots of experienced speakers present, including our very own John Woodward, covering a wide variety of subject matters, from health issues to legal issues within construction. The programme includes a variety of workshops that you can choose from depending on what suits you best.

Here's the description of the event by IOSH:

This joint networking seminar between IOSH London Metropolitan Branch, the IOSH Construction Group and the IOSH Health and Social Care Group will give delegates a broad understanding of the health risks in construction activities and the often simple steps that can be taken to eliminate or control them.

These risk management solutions will be presented by knowledgeable and experiences speakers in these key topics.

Having construction work done, even at a small scale, presents a number of risks to construction workers and challenges to those commissioning, supporting or undertaking that work. It has been identified that the majority of harms caused to construction workers affects their health. This seminar will present cutting edge information about the management of these risks.

The learning outcomes to be gained from this are:

• an understanding of how the CDM framework can be used to create good outcomes on projects
• to take away and transpose the days presentations and activities within your role
• to be able to promote a positive health and safety culture and encourage a positive outlook on prevention during a construction project
• an understanding of the benefits of effective health and safety management.

If you would like to attend, you can book your place(s) online, email bookings@iosh.co.uk or call 0116 2573197.

Understanding CDM 2015 Information Days

C&D Consultancy, together with ATEB Consult, are running a number of information days around the country to train Construction and Demolition managers on the changes to the CDM Regulations, that took effect from April 1st. The next event will be in Cardiff on 7th July.

For further information or to book a place please contact Stuart at stuart@demolishdismantle.co.uk

HSE holding free construction industry seminar May 14th

In 2012/13, 39 construction workers were killed and 12 of those were self-employed. The nature of the work means there is a high incidence rate, but that doesn't mean it is inevitable any of the two million people working in construction will get injured.

With that in mind, the HSE is running a free seminar designed to make sure workers don’t become an injury statistic. It will be a half day event organised in conjunction with the Staffordshire and Shropshire Working Well Together group. It is taking place at Keele University, Staffordshire, from 8.30am to 12.30pm on Wednesday, 14th May.

A number of experts and HSE representatives will be giving talks, including Roger Willey, Managing Director of ACS Physical Risk Control Ltd.

If you would like to attend please contact Anne Twigg or Janet Gibson at the HSE on 01782 602300.

Source: HSE