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Month: July 2017

Work Experience pupils training day

Date: 20th June 2017 Venue:     Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale At a joint committee meeting of South Cumbria & North Lancashire IOSH District and South Cumbria Health & Safety Group (SCOHSG) James said that he had been approached by a

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Works visit: Nationwide Fire Training, indoor training facility

Host:         Andy Lee, Director, Nationwide Fire Training Venue:       Nationwide Fire Training, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 6NZ Andy Lee and Richard Nicholson welcomed members to Nationwide Fire Training’s indoor training facility with a buffet lunch and opportunity to network. After lunch

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SCOHSG representatives join RoSPA’s 100th anniversary celebrations at Buckingham Palace!

SCOHSG achieved an Alan Butler Gold Award in recognition of their work in 2016 to promote best practice workplace occupational health and safety in Cumbria and Lancashire, and gained Silver Awards for 2014 and 2015. This led to two representatives

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Interactive workshop: How can we manage workplace use of VDU workstations, laptops, tablets and smart phones?

18 May 2017 Workshop leader: James Woolgrove, Director, James Woolgrove Associates This meeting was planned as an interactive workshop, led by James Woolgrove assisted by Sam Duxbury, Jim Tongue and Gary McAteer. Unfortunately, James’ three assistants fell by the wayside,

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Skills, knowledge, experience and training – how should we assess workplace competence?

20 April 2017 Speaker: Kajal Odedra, Development Executive, Policy Department, IOSH, Leicester Kajal gave members an overview of the IOSH Blue Print workplace competency assessment tool allows individuals and business managers to assess workplace competence from a ‘whole business’ perspective.

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Next meeting

  1. DSEAR unravelled

    May 19 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
  2. Works visit: Ørsted’s onshore facility for Walney offshore wind farm, Barrow-in-Furness

    June 16 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  3. Preventing falls from height

    July 21 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm

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2021 programme

Our 2021 programme has not been finalised due to Covid-19 restrictions

Minutes & presentations

  • Treating Health like Safety – why employers need to assess invisible and physical workplace killers!
  • BTP Cumbria open days
  • Preventing slip-and-fall accidents and claims
  • Competence: how can workplace competence be assessed? A common sense approach.
  • HSE update.

Why not come and visit us?

You will find a warm welcome, in a delightful hotel with panoramic views across Morecambe Bay, and the opportunity to up-date your workplace health and safety knowledge and skills from presentations by HSE specialists and industry ‘experts’.

Where are we based?

Grange-over-Sands is in the centre of our geographical area which stretches south to Lancaster, north to Ambleside, to the west coast of Cumbria and east to the Yorkshire border. Companies who are based further afield are also welcomed as members.
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