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Managing the risk of ‘grey fleet’ – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

With the growing trend for online shopping, next-day delivery and the retail/hospitality experience showing no signs of slowing down, businesses frequently need to recruit extra staff to meet increased demand (particularly in the run up to Christmas). A major national newspaper has reported that approximately 250,000 temporary positions will be on offer over the festive period and not just in restaurants, bars and shops, but also in warehouses and delivery.

Yodel, the courier giant recently announced they need an extra 1,500 temporary staff nationwide, including HGV class 1 drivers, warehouse operatives, van drivers and couriers to fulfill client demand. With

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We’re with you each step of the way in which! – RoSPA Office Security Weblog

Whether or not you are a returning entrant, or model new to the RoSPA Well being & Security Awards, going by way of the entry course of can appear somewhat daunting… however do not panic! We now have a extremely devoted staff at RoSPA to assist.

We caught up with two members of the RoSPA staff, Dr Karen McDonnell and Matt Cryer, to learn the way they can assist entrants on their awards journey.


Dr Karen McDonnell, CFIOSH, Chartered FCIPD

OHS Coverage Adviser, Head of RoSPA Scotland, Previous President IOSH
As a extremely motivated advocate for security and well being,

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To a Mouse – RoSPA Office Security Weblog

This 12 months the beginning of Robert Burns and the Lunar New 12 months fell on the identical date, 25th January. A time for Scots and Asian heritage to be celebrated, a time for reflection and ahead planning.

My favourite Robert Burns poem is ‘To a Mouse’, written in 1785 it tells the story of Burns disturbing a mouse nest while ploughing a area, a panic stricken mouse, its ruined nest and with winter simply across the nook, its world in disarray .

There’s a line within the poem, ‘One of the best laid plans o’mice an’ males gang

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Highlight on RoSPA’s First Worldwide Awards Ambassador – RoSPA Office Security Weblog

In 2018, RoSPA developed the RoSPA Awards Ambassador scheme, aiming to create a community of people who champion RoSPA’s goal to drive up well being and security requirements by way of the RoSPA’s Worldwide Well being and Security Awards. With greater than 27-years of expertise in OS&H administration, and over half of these spent working abroad, Stephen Storey, who relies in India, was nicely positioned to be RoSPA’s first worldwide awards ambassador. We meet up with him to see what this implies for him.

Stephen Story has spent fifteen years working abroad in OS&H administration within the Center East and

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We’re off to Chennai – RoSPA Office Security Weblog

Just a few months into the 12 months, 2020 is already proving to be extra thrilling than ever. This March, RoSPA will probably be launching our first ever Awards Excellence Discussion board in India. Going down on Tuesday, March 24at Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Campus in Chennai, India. This free occasion is an outstanding instance of simply how far the RoSPA Well being & Security Awards scheme reaches throughout the globe.

Internet hosting this worldwide occasion is Worldwide Awards Ambassador Stephen Storey. With over 27 years of expertise within the well being and security business, mixed together with

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Black college students extra harshly disciplined in Victor Valley excessive colleges, feds say

Khan, Irfan –– B582213710Z.1 VICTORVILLE, CA, July 03, 2012 ––– A pedestrian crosses 7th.  Street in old town area of ​​Victorville.  City is teetering on the brink of financial ruin due to some bad financial investments.  Green Tree golf course, where the city dumped a ton of money into the club house, the old airbase, the old plane boneyard and an abandoned house that city paid $375,000 are some of many bad financial decisions that put into trouble.(Irfan Khan/ Los Angeles Times)

Seventh Road within the outdated city space of ​​Victorville, Calif., the place a number of colleges within the Victor Valley Union Excessive Faculty District are situated. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Instances)

The Victor Valley Union Excessive Faculty District disciplined Black college students extra harshly than others and has agreed to rectify its historical past of discriminatory practices, the US Division of Schooling introduced Tuesday.

The report by the division’s Workplace for Civil Rights revealed one principal within the Inland Empire district instructed investigators that Black college students are disciplined extra as a result of they’re “loud” and it is

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On-line Driving Programs – RoSPA Office Security Weblog

Within the UK, one of many few development sectors throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been transportation companies and specifically, meals supply.

By the tip of March 2020, income within the UK on-line groceries supply section was up by 11.5% in contrast with Jan-March within the earlier yr. Regardless of the quantity of site visitors on our roads falling to ranges not seen since 1955 throughout the pandemic, the variety of folks driving for work to ship meals and different objects has elevated.

In the identical month, Tesco added greater than 200 new vans and employed one other 2,500 drivers. Different

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After preliminary plans got here in $20M excessive, Mitchell Board of Schooling to get take a look at revised highschool plans

Aug. 7—MITCHELL — The Mitchell Board of Schooling will get a take a look at a second spherical of plans for the proposed new highschool constructing when it convenes for its subsequent assembly Monday night, Aug. 8.

The assembly, which is open to the general public, will probably be held in Room 10 on the Mitchell Profession & Technical Schooling Academy. The assembly is scheduled to start at 5 pm

The board is anticipated to listen to from Robin Miller, supervisor architect for Schemmer — an Omaha, Nebraska-based structure agency with places of work in Sioux Falls that’s engaged on