December 2004 Site News Archive

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• A preliminary relaunch date for Health and Safety for Beginners has been set for Sunday 9 January.

There is still a fair bit of work to be done to the site for our relaunch, but a target date has been set which we hope to meet.   This does unfortunately mean that our scheduled newsletter for 1 January 2005 will be delayed one week, but will now coincide with the relaunch of the site if all goes well.

• A report to accompany our recent bullying survey has been published on the survey page:  HSfB Bullying Survey

• New legislation added to the Legislation News page: Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2004 and The Building (Amendment) (No.3) Regulations 2004.
• Three new colleges added to the Training Pages: Ayr, Cumbernauld and Stow.

• New training link added to the Training Links page:  Safoss Limited

• A new consultation document has been added to the Legislation News page:  HSC Consultative letter: Proposals for new safety regulations for railways and other guided transport systems.

• HSfB is nearly one year old (February 2005) and we feel it is about time to move away from our original web site format and aim for a more simplistic and functional web site.   We understand that people do not want to be confused with a multitude of text and links on pages, we all like web pages that are easy to understand and use.   For this reason, HSfB needs a complete rework.  

Our new web site will not appeal to everybody, nor does the current one appeal to everybody either, but we feel that even before our 1st anniversary, we should mark the occasion with phase one of our new face.   Phase two will commence later on in 2005 which will aim for complete accessibility to comply with internet disability laws and guidelines.  A specific launch date has not been set yet, but will be soon.   Keep your eye on the site news for future information.   We also have plans to incorporate new pages into the site to cater for consulting companies, or any other companies supplying products/services for health and safety.   There will be plenty of advertising space on the site and with the new services pages, you will be able to 'sell' your services on your very own page on this site.   There will be various packages, ranging from:

• free links on our Useful Links page and our Career and Training pages with a short description
• the ability to display your company logo and description at a low monthly, quarterly or yearly cost
• the ability to have a full review with company logo/banner advertising on your very own page
• the ability to choose from a variety of pages you would like to show your logo on a first come first served basis
• more to come...

These new changes will help with the increasing running costs of HSfB and will help keep the site alive and looking forward. If you have any queries about the coming changes or would like further information on advertising costs, please contact HSfB via the Contact Us page or the Feedback page.

• New consultation document added to the Legislation News page:  Consultation on guidance to the amended COMAH regulations.

• New pilot scheme - Make Your Point!  Send us your views and opinions on any health and safety issues and we will publish them in our newsletter and also on the web site.   More information can be found on our Make Your Point! page.

• New consultation documents added to the Legislation News page:  Carriage of Dangerous Goods and Use of Transportable Pressure Equipment (Amendment) Regulations 2005 and Disability Discrimination Act 1995: Consultation on the removal of the Part 3 exemption for providers of transport services