Proud supporters of the Platform Project’s Epic Gameshow 2025

by Rachel Gearon | Feb 13, 2025 | Employment & skills, Industry news, Our News

Proud supporters of the Platform Project’s Epic Gameshow 2025

We are delighted to announce that the wonderful non-profit organisation, The Platform Project are launching their black-tie fundraising event called The Epic Gameshow.

This annual event raises money to fund the amazing work they do helping disadvantaged and vulnerable young people in Swindon develop the skills, confidence and experience they need to launch their careers and to take sustainable steps towards a thriving future.

Tickets are available now for you and your business to attend and join in. There is also corporate sponsorship available, discounts for table bookings and opportunities to donate money or prizes for their raffle.

We’ve got a table, so we’ll be there so come along and join us for – we’re looking forward to a great fun night with the chance to support a great cause.

For more information please view their brochure here

2025 Epic Game Show Event Pack

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New Personal Protection Training now available

by Rachel Gearon | Feb 6, 2025 | Employment & skills, Our News, Training courses, Workplace safety

New Personal Protection Training now available

We are excited to announce that we have launched our new Personal Protection Training course.

This course is designed to teach you the practical skills combined with the correct psychological attitude, strategies and appropriate knowledge of the law to give you the confidence to act in the face of a violent situation.

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We will teach you how to avoid them and give you the confidence through proven techniques to act if the situation demands it.

With a steady rise of violent against women and girls, there is a pressing need to ensure all women have the skills to help them deal with the violence that they are experiencing. This course will do just that and is suitable for anyone over the age of 13 years old.

If you’re thinking of booking this course for your staff, then we would also recommend our Emergency First Aid at Work course too. This will give your staff the skills they need to deal with the potential aftermath of a violent incident in the workplace. For more information on this course, please click here.

We hope this new course not only improves the safety of women and girls but also helps employers invest in the CPD of their staff.

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We’ve moved!

by Rachel Gearon | Jan 23, 2025 | Employment & skills, Our News, Training courses

We’ve Moved!

We are delighted to share with you some exciting news.

We have moved to larger premises to help us offer a greater range of courses and course dates to our customers.

Our new address is Units 9 and 10, Rockhaven Park, Kembrey Street, Swindon, SN2 8BB. This is still within the Kembrey Park Estate, so we’re still ideally located to offer great transport links for all our customers – we just have more space to do so.

We now have some additional storage bays that are now available for short or long-term storage, so if you’re running out of space, we’d love to help.

For more information about the extensive range of courses we offer, please click here.

We look forward to seeing you in our new home soon.

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Upcoming Open Course Dates

by Rachel Gearon | Jan 16, 2025 | Employment & skills, Our News, Training courses, Workplace safety

Upcoming Open Course Dates

We have now released our open course dates for the next few months, and we’re delighted to share these with you.

These are ideal if you only have a small number of people who need training, or if you’re booking for just yourself.

These will be running in our training centre in Swindon.

Do you need a course just for your staff?

Then we can come to you when you need us. We can deliver tailored courses to your specific needs at your site. And there are big discounts available for multiple bookings. The more people on the course, the less it costs you per person.

To see the full range of courses we can offer, please see our courses page

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Company fined £400k after forklift breaks worker’s leg

by Rachel Gearon | Jan 9, 2025 | Employment & skills, Industry news, Training courses, Workplace safety

Company fined £400k after forklift breaks worker’s leg

A plastics manufacturer in Kent has been fined £400,000 for health and safety failings, after an employee was struck by a forklift truck, breaking his leg and ankle in several places.

The incident happened at FloPlast Limited’s site at Eurolink Business Park in Sittingbourne, on 4 July 2023. The worker was walking across the yard as a forklift truck came up behind him.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) launched an investigation into the incident and found several failures in FloPlast’s safety management. The business had no documented safe system of work, and although employees thought there were measures in place, nobody followed them.

Further study of the CCTV footage revealed drivers and pedestrians regularly circulated in close proximity, and one-way traffic systems were ignored. Vehicles themselves had not been assessed to ensure they provided good visibility.

Management had failed to remind pedestrians and drivers about safe systems of work, and there was also no system to monitor legal compliance.

Appearing at Maidstone Magistrates’ Court on 14 November 2024, FloPlast Limited pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. The company was fined £400,000, as well as £5,567 in legal costs.

Commenting on the case, HSE Inspector Peter Bruce said:

“Poor vehicle and pedestrian segregation in the workplace is a common cause of fatal incidents and injuries. The employee in this instance suffered multiple fractures and has had to have a metal plate put into their leg which they will have for the rest of their life.

“Employers need to ensure that they have suitable measures in place to segregate out pedestrians and vehicles. This includes: the provision of safe systems of work, appropriate training procedures and systems for ensuring compliance with those measures.

“Where it is identified that employees are not following these measures, employers should consider the reasons behind this implementing further measures as appropriate to the risk.”

Make sure your site, supervisors and staff are all adequately trained with us. We offer a huge range of courses designed to improve forklift operator safety: from high quality operator training courses to Managing and Supervising MHE Operations (e-learning).

To view our courses please click here and see how we can help improve site safety for everyone in 2025.

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