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COMPLIANCE ALLIANCE – AN ASSURANCE OF SAFETY
25/08/2006
An association between Norwich Union, Mines Rescue and Didsbury engineering has been created to provide a complete health and safety assessment and implementation service for companies across a broad range of industries. Known as the Compliance Alliance, the team is focusing initially on confined space entry requirements, and will shortly include other areas such as working at heights, noise and vibration, and lifting and handling.
The Compliance Alliance brings together diverse but complimentary skills in risk assessment, health and safety training and the provision, maintenance and testing of safety equipment. The first stage is for Norwich Union Risk Services to carry out an assessment of a company’s current working practices against the legal requirements of the Confined Space Work Regulations 1997 and industry best practice, including the new occupational standards for confined space working. A report is provided on areas which are not compliant with current legislation, accompanied by a corrective action plan. Clients can also access a telephone helpline for further advice and guidance.
Didsbury Engineering will then ensure that the client has the correct equipment supplied, maintained, tested and certified to meet current legal requirements. With over 60 years’ experience, Didsbury manufactures, supplies and maintains a comprehensive range of entry and rescue equipment for all categories of confined space work, supported by a full maintenance and service package to ensure that it is always totally compliant with current legislation.
Training and hazard awareness are perhaps the most important elements of site safety, and here the unrivalled experience of Mines Rescue provides a client’s workforce with the competence to enter a confined space safely, and to carry out a rescue should the need arise. Courses from one to three days’ duration cover all relevant topics including safe entry and the use of compressed air escape, re-breather and self-contained breathing apparatus. The courses are aligned to the new Energy Utility Skills National Occupational Standard, and also to the Water UK National Confined Spaces Competency Standards which were introduced to harmonise procedures throughout the water industry.
For an initial consultation without obligation, please contact the Compliance Alliance on 0161 486 2200. Further information is available at www.didsbury.com, and by email from ca@didsbury.com.
For more information: http://www.didsbury.com/main.industrialsafety.asp
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