Health and Safety Executive sets up mythbusters panel to tackle misuse of legislation by ‘jobsworths’ The mythbusters panel will aim to get rid of ‘daft’ rules such as a ban on children playing conkers without goggles Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA An official voice to combat misuses of health and safety legislation is being launched by ministers.…
Implementation of the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 has been delayed again and is now unlikely to be commenced until some point next year. Having been fast-tracked through Parliament by the last Government as part of new procedures for non-contentious Law Commission recommendations, the Act first stalled under the coalition Government, which undertook…
Chairman’s Blog – Meeting Thursday 5th April 2012 28 members and 2 guests. Claire Greenslade for a second visit and Victoria Mason from the Employability and Skills Unit of Essex County Council. I am pleased to be able to confirm that Claire made an application which was approved by the Committee at a hastily formed meeting…
At the meeting today a new style of members name badges were launched. You can see my badge below, which I think is excellent. I’ve already attended another networking event wearing this badge and it provoked comment and conversation about Essex Business Forum. Great stuff! Well done to the excellent leadership team for arranging this!
I thought i’d take a moment to reflect back on my many years of networking and draw a personal comparison between my time as a member of BNI Brentwood and my membership of Essex Business Forum. I joined BNI Brentwood almost as soon as it was launched in 1998. I was new to the world…
Chairman’s Blog – Meeting Thursday 29th March 2012 Best turn out yet – 31 members and 4 guests – just squeezed everybody in. The meeting welcomed Steve Richards of Medical Assistance UK, Clare Greenslade of Blue Candy, Pam Sanders of Ab Fab London Events and David Brown of PSW Building Consultancy. Clare and David seemed to…
Chairman’s Blog – Meeting Thursday 15th March 2012 It started slowly, but got better and better. 27 members in attendance, 1 guest – Simon Mears of Vogue Designs. He is threatening to come back next week and hopefully we have another new member in prospect. The 60 second round had Mike Rogers in an aggressive mood…
Chairman’s Blog Meeting Thursday 8th March 2012 Just enough seats – great turn out – 29 members, 1 visitor, Veronica Dembanezi. Her Company provides security services. Hopefully the interest she expressed in the meeting will translate into something more positive. Talking about new members, we are pleased to welcome Andy Smith who was duly inducted…
Medway has Britain’s second highest rate of asbestos linked deaths, and the Government stands accused of dragging its feet in offering help victims while they are still alive. A company of compensation specialists used a freedom of information request to the UK’s office of statistics, and the results make shocking reading. It found only Barrow…
If you are in danger of being made redundant there are some things you can do to either perseude your employer to choose someone else or give yourself some leverage in trying to negotiate a better package. Employers have to do 3 things to make a redundancy fair: 1. They have to consult with you-…