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21.09.18

It’s been ages!

We’ve been very busy at MECsafe over the last few months, hence no blog! Primarily, improving our NVQ portfolio has been taking up a lot of our time, but it has been worth it, as we are now able to offer you the following NVQ’s:

Level 2
– Construction Operations
– Decorative Finishing and Painting
– Formwork
– Interior Systems (Dry Lining Fixing)
– Cranes & Specialist Lifting
– Forklift Trucks
– Plastering (Solid)
– Steelfixing Occupations
– Trowel Occupations (Bricklaying)
– Wood Occupations (Site Carpentry)

Level 3
– Decorative Finishing and Painting
– Occupational Work Supervision
– Plastering (Solid)

Level 4
– Site Supervision

Level 6
– Construction Contracting Ops
– Site Management

Level 7
– Construction Senior Management

We’ve also been scheduling lots of courses at Doncaster, including:

UKATA Asbestos Awareness – 1^st Oct

CCNSG – 1^st & 2^nd Oct

IPAF scissor lift & cherry picker – 1^st Oct

If you need an NVQ for a CSCS card or simply just for CPD etc. or would like to book on a training course, please contact us 01302 775900 ext 1.

Anyway, enough about us, let’s talk about general news this week:

The NHS to save ‘hundreds of millions’ in landmark drug ruling. Novartis and Bayer were trying to stop NHS doctors from prescribing a cheaper treatment for a serious eye condition. Health bosses said the judgement in the High Court may reduce the power of companies to set prices. Drug company Novartis said they were “disappointed” because patients were being asked to accept an unlicensed treatment to save the NHS money. The case centred on the treatment of patients with the common eye condition, wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Facebook will no longer send employees to work at the offices of political campaigns during elections, the company has announced. The social network used to offer dedicated staff to political campaigns to help them develop their online advertising campaigns. Donald Trump’s digital director for the 2016 presidential election has said Facebook’s assistance helped him win. Facebook said rival Hillary Clinton was offered the same support, but declined. The social network is the second largest online advertising broker, behind Google.

In construction news this week…

Are safety fines are getting out of control? Galliford Try and Costain were fined £1.4m each this week after a worker lost three toes at a water treatment plant.

Caddick takes workforce plastic-free. Caddick Construction is pushing to become a single-use plastic free workforce by handing out reusable water bottles across the Yorkshire company.

That’s all for now folks!

22.01.18

More Political Scandals

The head of the British Army will warn today that the country’s ability to respond to Russian threats will erode if the UK does not keep up with its enemies. General Sir Nick Carter will use a speech to the Royal United Services Institute to highlight how Moscow is building an increasingly aggressive and expeditionary force that already boasts capabilities that outmatch UK forces.

UKIP’s ruling committee has unanimously backed a vote of no confidence in party leader Henry Bolton, just hours after he warned the party ‘is probably over’ if he is forced out. Mr Bolton, whose leadership of the party was called into question following revelations that his girlfriend Jo Marney sent racist text messages, told TV show ‘Peston on Sunday’ it could not survive another leadership contest.

Today marks a year since President Trump took office, and his administration is once again mired in controversy amid a costly federal funding row that has led to a government shutdown.

In construction news this week…

Sheffield United submits plan for South Stand. Sheffield United have submitted plans for a new South Stand to add more than 5,400 seats, new executive boxes and a media centre at Bramall Lane.

Kier fined £100,000 for hospital oil spill. Kier and its subcontractor BKP Waste Recycling Limited have been sentenced for polluting groundwater with over 11,000 litres of diesel during the redevelopment of Christchurch Hospital, Dorset.

Site safety stand-down to cover whole of construction. Sites across the whole construction sector will stop work as part of a safety stand-down in April.

In MECsafe news this week…

We still have plenty of availability on the following courses:

SSSTS (Supervisors) – 1st & 2nd Feb 2018

H&S Awareness (required for the green Labourers CSCS card) – 7th Feb 2018

IPAF 3a & 3b – 8th Feb 2018

If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

9.01.18

Happy New Year!

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and 2018 has got off to a great start!

A cabinet shuffle is often the chance to reassert a prime minister’s authority and refresh a party’s image. But Theresa May’s reshuffle didn’t go exactly to plan when several cabinet ministers refused to move, according to sources. Education Secretary Justine Greening refused to be transferred and handed in her resignation and Jeremy Hunt is said to have kept his role after “persuading” Mrs May not to move him. To further complicate things, the Conservative party tweeted out Chris Grayling as the new chairman, when the role actually went to the immigration minister Brandon Lewis.

Brighton left it late to beat rivals Crystal palace 2-1 in the third round of the FA Cup, after striker Glenn Murray scored the winning goal in the dying minutes. The FA Cup game marked the debut for the new Video Assistant Referee (VAR) technology, which is a new system designed to keep referee mistakes to a minimum. The VAR will only intervene when the referee makes a clear and obvious error. But in last night’s cup tie, the new system remained unused despite Murray’s controversial winning goal which looked like he handballed into the net.

Nearly 200,00 Salvadorans face deportation from the United States by September 2019 after the Trump administration ended special protection status for people from the Central American country. The decision made by the Homeland Security will have a heavy impact on parts of New York, Los Angeles and New York with a large Salvadoran community.

In construction news this week…

Health fears raised over co