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	<description>Protecting the future of your business</description>
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		<title>Have you got a lifting plan in place?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A crane firm has been fined after the hook broke off a tower crane and a 4 tonne load crashed 36 metres to the ground, narrowly missing a footpath.
The load came down heavily beside part of the campus regularly used by students; the impact also demolished the site boundary fence and damaged a college building.
The company, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/678/health-safety-news/have-you-got-a-lifting-plan-in-place/</link>
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		<title>CITB &#8211; How to Write an Effective Risk Assessment and Method Statement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to announce a one-day training course, at Doncaster, on how to write an effective risk assessment and method statement.
 The course is intended for anyone who carries out risk assessments and writes method statements and will be run by Mr Nigel Deane, a well know and respected health &#38; safety trainer and preferred [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/676/health-safety-news/citb-how-to-write-an-effective-risk-assessment-and-method-statement/</link>
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		<title>Sensible words from Lord Young&#8230;.</title>
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		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/673/health-safety-news/sensible-words-from-lord-young/</link>
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		<title>Building firm fined over asbestos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A building company has been fined for carrying out unlicensed asbestos removal at a property in Wales.
The company had been hired to replace a central heating boiler at the property. Carpenters were taking off a cupboard door clad with asbestos insulation board (AIB) so they could access the boiler when they were approached by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/671/health-safety-news/building-firm-fined-over-asbestos/</link>
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		<title>DISCOUNT &#8211; Site Supervisor Safety Training Scheme Course</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a 2 Day Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme (SSSTS) Course running on 24th &#38; 25th August 2010
@ C &#38; G Assessments &#38; Training Ltd
Venture One Business Park
22 Long Acre Close
Sheffield
S20 3FR
Due to late cancellations we are now offering this course at a reduced rate of -  £200 + vat.  &#8211; Normal price &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/669/health-safety-news/discount-site-supervisor-safety-training-scheme-course/</link>
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		<title>Calling time on &#8216;cowboy&#8217; safety consultants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever had the feeling that your safety consultant is going way &#8216;over the top&#8217;?
A new UK scheme to accredit health and safety consultants is likely to be announced in the next few weeks. Work to develop the scheme has been accelerated as a result of Lord Young’s government review into health and safety. Lord Young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/667/health-safety-news/calling-time-on-cowboy-safety-consultants/</link>
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		<title>Motor vehicle repair bodyshop workers still at risk of asthma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Body shop workers are being encouraged to do more to protect themselves when paint spraying, as new research suggests that some are still putting themselves at risk of developing asthma.
A HSE report into the use of two-pack paints containing isocyanates has identified that there are still a number of areas of concern; HSE estimates that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/665/health-safety-news/motor-vehicle-repair-bodyshop-workers-still-at-risk-of-asthma/</link>
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		<title>CHAS Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CHAS application form has changed……
CHAS have been reviewing the application form and have updated it to make the application process easier; however, it now requires much more evidence that you have the relevant systems in place so be warned
The new application requires extra information to be provided on:

Management arrangements (such as manual handling ,work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/663/health-safety-news/chas-update/</link>
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		<title>Yet another architect fined&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An architect&#8217;s practice and a construction company involved in a development have been fined a total of £195,000 following a fatality on site.
The construction company pleaded guilty to breaching Section 3(1) of the Health &#38;Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 for failing to safely manage subcontractors working for it; they were fined £75,000 and ordered to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spectrumrisk.co.uk/661/health-safety-news/yet-another-architect-fined/</link>
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		<title>Bosses &#8216;encourage unhealthy habits&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than half of bosses believe socialising at work means going down the pub, according to an insurance company report.
Employers may be making their staff unhealthier with the practice, said Aviva&#8217;s Health of the Workplace study/
 A rate of 57% of bosses claim that workplace social events normally entail drinking at a pub &#8211; only one [...]]]></description>
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