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In This Issue
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1. Breaking Bad Behaviour!
2. Safety & Health Expo 2006 – Birmingham, NEC
3. Fresh features now available on O-LAS!
4. New EssentialSkillz Customers
5. Customer Testimonials
6. Useful Health and Safety Publications
7. Around the globe odd-bits
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1. Breaking Bad Behaviour!
----------------------------------------------------------------- EssentialSkillz now have completed their range of 'best-in-class' solutions designed to improve DSE user behaviour.
- A 50-minute online Workstation Ergonomics course that provides an in-depth view of DSE related hazards and instruction on how to avoid them. EssentialSkillz believe that a more detailed understanding of the the risks associated with this “low risk” environment will lead to more success in the battle against poor workstation user behaviour.
- A shorter, more concise, 20-minute online, course, that acts as an ideal revision course and meets the needs of employers in time sensitive environments.
- A newly revised online Workstation self-assessment that can be fully customised to each organisation’s precise requirements with a simple-to-use customer interface.
- Free to use Workstation Essentials screensavers that help maintain safety awareness levels months and years after completing a course.
- Keep the safety message in front of DSE users by using the beautifully illustrated EssentialSkillz mouse mats.
To request a no-obligation, 28-day trial of this, or any of the other EssentialSkillz award-winning courses, please complete this online form: http://www.essentialskillz.com/evaluate.html
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2. Safety & Health Expo 2006 – Birmingham, NEC
----------------------------------------------------------------- Visit EssentialSkillz on Stand E24 (next to RoSPA) at the Safety & Health Expo 2006, which will run from 9th-11th May.
Why go?
• Enter our competition for the opportunity to win free training for 100 of your employees. Simply drop your business card into the competition box on the stand. The draw will be held at 3pm on the last day of the show. Newsletter readers can also participate in this competition by sending an email to
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with the word 'Competition' in the subject line.
• We will be providing information and demos of the newly broadened range of 'best-in-class' solutions designed to improve DSE user behaviour.
• We will be showing off our new user Marketing Guide for clients.
Get more information on Safety & Health Expo 2006 at:
http://www.safety-health-expo.co.uk/
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3. Fresh features now available on O-LAS!
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Report Function
A brand new report function has been added to O-LAS, EssentialSkillz Online Learning & Assessment System. The report function gives the Main Administrator the key performance indicators for any group of users or all users in their organisation. This facility was designed for monthly reporting or random reporting. Reports can be printed out directly from O-LAS or downloaded to the workstation. Employees who have not completed mandatory courses can be emailed from within the report screens.
Concerns Emails
EssentialSkillz have also added a new Concerns Emails function to O-LAS. The new Concerns Emails function allows the Main Administrator to configure an automatic email that will periodically be sent to all Line Managers or Assessors who have unresolved risk assessment concerns for their employees. The emails can be configured so that they will be sent at pre-defined intervals and will only go to Line Managers or Assessors who have unresolved concerns.
This new function is designed to take the work out of chasing Line Managers or Assessors to resolve concerns actionable by them, thereby freeing up the Health & Safety Managers time to resolve the critical concerns raised.
To find more about unresolved risk assessment concerns emails, please complete this online form: http://www.essentialskillz.com/evaluate.html
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4. New EssentialSkillz Customers
----------------------------------------------------------------- EssentialSkillz provide solutions to a wide variety of leading organisations such as Rolls-Royce plc, Heineken, Boston Scientific, and the European Bank. We are delighted to welcome the following new customers on board: - Scania GB
- KPMG Jersey
- Oxford Radcliffe NHS
- Schwarz Pharma
- Diamond Innovations
- Carpmaels & Ransford
- Hermes Pensions Management Limited
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5. Customer Testimonial
----------------------------------------------------------------- “We have found Workstation Essentials and the associated Risk Assessment to be very beneficial. The feedback has been very positive with employees agreeing that the programme will definitely improve their ability to carry out their daily work more comfortably. The staff at EssentialSkillz were always very helpful and very responsive to any requests.”
Eoin Kennedy, EH&S Specialist, Boston Scientific
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6. Useful Health and Safety Publications
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Check out the latest published statistics from the HSE:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/index.htm
Check out the Working Time (Amendment) Regulations 2006:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20060099.htm
Other sources for employees on Health and safety at work:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/Employees/HealthAndSafetyAtWork/fs/en
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7. Around the globe odd-bits
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JCB can do 300mph
A JCB has been created that can do 300mph. The digger firm produced the Dieselmax in a bid to smash the speed record for a diesel-powered vehicle reports The Sun.
JCB say they are confident it will soar past the 235.74mph diesel world record at Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
It will be driven by Wing Commander Andy Green, who set the 763.035mph land speed record in 1997 in the rocket-like Thrust SSC.
Andy said: "This really shows what British engineering can achieve. I'm really looking forward to driving another British entry into the '300mph club' - and a diesel-engined JCB at that!"
The Dieselmax does have some disadvantages. It needs a push-start by a truck, it does four miles to the gallon and the tank holds just two gallons.
Story compliments of www.ananova.com
Message left on the British Army answerphone
Thank you for calling the British Army. I'm sorry, but all our units are out at the moment, or are otherwise engaged. Please leave a message with your country, name of organisation, the region, the specific crisis and a number at which we can call you. As soon as we have sorted out Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Iraq, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, The Congo, marching up and down bits of tarmac in London and compulsory health and safety at work training, we will return your call.
Please speak after the tone or, if you require more options, listen to the following numbers:
A. If your crisis is small and close to the sea, press 1 for the Royal Marines.
B. If your concern is distant, with a tropical climate, good hotels and can be solved by one or two low-risk bombing runs, please press 2 for the Royal Air Force. (Please note that this service is not available after 1630 or weekends.)
C. If your enquiry concerns a situation which can be resolved by a warship, some bunting, flags, a damn good cocktail party and a first class marching band, please write, well in advance, to the First Sea Lord, The Royal Navy, Whitehall, London SW1.
Joke compliments of www.office-humour.co.uk
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