Collaborative Seminar

The revisions to the CDM regulations are now at the consultative stage. The APS and others are running a series of workshops to help facilitate the feedback required by the HSE. However, learning from our major accounts reviews, a key issue for large organisations is the need to gain an appropriate level of visibility for the management of regulations, from the bottom to the top of organisations.

With this in mind, we have approached a number of organisations including the HSE to find out what interest there is out there in holding a Collaborative Seminar, using the CDM revisions as a base, to explore how regulations are managed in organisations. If you are interested in taking part in this debate, then please contact us by 12 May 2005.

Partners Meeting

Our next Partners Meeting is due on 9 May 2005 in Leighton Buzzard. The meetings are currently aimed at customers offering an asbestos survey service, or management services for the CAWR 2002 - Duty to Manage Asbestos In the Workplace. Attendees are exploring better ways to gather asbestos data, input it into management systems and to deal with the onward management of the information for use by their own staff, their customers and their customer's suppliers.

The predominance of paper based solutions is a salutary reminder that IT has not yet found all the answers. At Ai Solutions, we like to think that we have done better than most and look forward to reporting our successes to you as the Partners Meetings progress.

Ask a Guru: Working on a Portable Ladder

Question
Is it allowed to be on a ladder with both hands occupied on bulb changing? The height is about 60-70 sm and one guy stands near the ladder to secure.

I have faced with this question many times and I have been forced to stop the job.

Answer
In a word, it is NOT acceptable to use both hands for an activity whilst standing on a ladder; the 'new' Working at Height Regulations reinforces this.

When working from a ladder, 3 points of contact with the ladder must be achieved at all times.

ToolKit CS™ Service Pack 6

We are pleased to announce the release of Service Pack 6 at the end of March 2005. This release is part of our regular free update of our current software products and is available to all customers on annual renewal.

For more information, see April's newsletter.