Editor | October 28, 2009
worldsteel has recognised three member companies, Gerdau, Tata Steel and Essar Steel, for excellence in their safety and health programmes.
All three companies demonstrated a commitment to safety and health that encompassed three basic guidelines:
1. the programme positively embraced the worldsteel safety and health principles
[...]
Editor | October 28, 2009
Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster has announced five re-appointments to the Board of the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland.
Serving a second three-year term on the Board will be Mrs Stephanie Lowry (Deputy Chair), Mr James Collins, Mr John Gillvray, Mr Brendan Mackin and Mrs Brenda Maitland.
Commenting on the re-appointments, the Minister said: “I would [...]
Editor | October 27, 2009
The National Safety Council has announced that seven safety professionals have been awarded the 2009
Distinguished Service to Safety Award. The award is the highest honor bestowed
on an individual safety professional by NSC in recognition of outstanding
service to the field of safety and health.
The NSC honored the seven 2009 recipients at the annual Congress & [...]
Editor | October 25, 2009
Wyle has been awarded an additional year on its Occupational Medicine and Occupational Health contract supporting NASA with the extension bringing the five-year value of the contract to more than $54 million running through July 2011.
Through the contract, Wyle provides support to NASA’s human space flight program through a comprehensive program of occupational/flight medicine and [...]
Editor | October 23, 2009
Parkinson Technologies Inc. has promoted Peter Galanis to the position of Operations Manager. Galanis, who joined the company in December 2006, had previously served as the company’s Quality/EH&S (Environmental, Health and Safety) Manager. In his new position Galanis will report to Peter Termyn, President & CEO of Parkinson Technologies.
“Peter has been instrumental in refining our [...]
Editor | October 23, 2009
Philip Rowley has been appointed as BAM Construct UK’s Director of Health and Safety with immediate effect following the retirement of Frank Garnett. His role covers all the UK construction activities as well as BAM’s other businesses such as facilities management and property. Philip will succeed Frank Garnett in representing BAM at industry level.
Philip has [...]
Editor | October 22, 2009
The Health and Safety Executive’s longest serving board member, Judith Donovan, has been recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The agriculture and small business champion, who is in the final year of her maximum 10-year term with HSE, has been honoured by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) for her work in these areas.
Judith, [...]
Editor | October 22, 2009
FDF has announced that Barbara Gallani, who is currently an FDF Manager with responsibility for Public Affairs and the BCCC Sector Group, has been successful in her application for the post of Director, Food Science and Safety. Barbara will replace Helen Munday who leaves us at the end of this year.
Barbara graduated from the University [...]
Editor | October 22, 2009
PureSafety, a leading provider of training, safety, occupational health and
medical management software and information solutions, has announced the
release of the industry`s first Learning and Safety Management System (LSMS).
The Enterprise LSMS incorporates the best features of PureSafety`s legacy LMS,
but is designed to integrate critical and closely related areas including
training, safety and compliance. Designed using the [...]
Editor | October 21, 2009
The Govenor of Montana has made an appointment to the State Emergency Response Commission.
Susan Taylor is the safety-emergency response director for ConocoPhillips. She has a bachelor’s degree in safety and health from Montana Tech.
Editor | October 21, 2009
Galaxy Resources Limited has announced that Mr Phil Harris has been appointed the Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality Manager.
Mr Harris is an Occupational Health and Safety professional with over 20 years experience in the mining industry. Mr Harris was previously OHS Manager for Portman Iron Ore Limited and Onslow Salt Private Limited. He also work [...]
Editor | October 20, 2009
Judith Donovan CBE has joined the British Wool Marketing Board as an Independent Member.
Having founded her own marketing agency in 1982 she was awarded the “Yorkshire Business Woman of the Year” and “Yorkshire Woman of the Year” titles and her business was twice featured in the Independent’s “100 Fastest Growing Companies”.
Judith has chaired the Bradford [...]
Editor | October 14, 2009
Yorkshire consultancy OHS, a leading independent health, safety and environmental management consultancy, are bucking the recessional trend in impressive fashion. The company has announced that after a rigorous tender procedure the Retail Development Division of the retailing giant Asda has become the latest major client to award them with a contract to provide provision of [...]
Editor | October 14, 2009
In recognition of its world-class safety, health and environmental performance in 2008, RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) has received two ExxonMobil Development Company (EMDC) President’s Safety Awards.
RasGas’ Subsurface Group and the Common Offplot Projects (COP) Team were selected from a number of worldwide finalists, after a comprehensive review of their 2008 performance. EMDC also acknowledged the [...]
Editor | October 13, 2009
Enviros has announced that it has been acquired by the leading global engineering, sciences and project delivery firm Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM).
A sale and purchase agreement has now been signed and the transaction is expected to complete within the coming weeks.
Since 1996 SKM has completed 56 mergers and acquisitions which have been central to the [...]
Editor | October 13, 2009
TÜV SÜD America Inc. announced the appointment of Mr. Thomas C. Ambrosia to the position of Food Safety Program Manager in its Management Services Division. In this role, Mr. Ambrosia will be responsible for supporting SQF program and Food Safety initiatives in the North American region. Additionally, Mr. Ambrosia will manage key accounts and act [...]
Editor | October 12, 2009
John Kime has joined International Safety Instruments (ISI), Lawrenceville, Georgia, as General Manager.
John joins ISI continuing a successful career in the safety industry, most recently as General Manager of North Safety, now known as North by Honeywell. John has significant safety industry career experience in general management, sales and marketing management.
ISI is an Avon [...]
Editor | October 9, 2009
Raymond Brown is celebrating after being recognised as a leader in Health and Safety.
Hampshire-based Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling [RBMR] – part of the Raymond Brown Group – has won a prestigious Occupational Health and Safety Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).
The Silver Award will be presented during a special [...]
Editor | October 8, 2009
Press release issued by UKATA:
In the June 09 newsletter, under the heading: No longer UKATA Compliant, we wrote: “The following companies are no longer members of UKATA and therefore may not display the UKATA Logo or imply they are compliant.”
We received a complaint from those companies in respect of this wording, instructing UKATA to: “publicly [...]
Editor | October 8, 2009
The U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions has unanimously approved the nomination of Joe Main to be assistant Labor Secretary in charge of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration.
The mission of the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is to administer the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act [...]
Editor | October 6, 2009
Silverdell UK Limited win Trade Contractor Safety and Environmental award for the 2nd quarter in 2009 for safety best practice on the Aspire Defence contract – Warminster.
The Aspire Defence contract is a key Regional Prime Contract providing general maintenance and refurbishment solutions to the Defence sectors; delivering better value for money through collaborative working.
Silverdell UK [...]
Editor | October 2, 2009
Arval, Europe’s leading fleet and fuel management company, has reinforced its commitment to road safety by signing up to the European Road Safety Charter. With the aim of reducing road fatalities the European Road Safety Charter is a European participatory platform made up of a wide range of organisations committed to road safety.
The latest figures [...]
Editor | October 1, 2009
BES Consulting Limited (”BES”) has recently been acquired by the PMG Ltd group of companies. PMG Ltd is a local company with business activities in internet, retail, and business outsourcing. BES will remain independent and continue trading as an autonomous business unit with the Group. Further to this, PMG is pleased to [...]
