vi Health & Safety Prestigious Occupational Health Award


Park Health, a joint venture between Sypol Ltd (UK), part of the Alcumus Group and Duradiamond Healthcare, who provide the occupational health function of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games construction project, has won the Astor Trophy, the prestigious RoSPA Occupational Health Award for 2011. The Astor Trophy was presented at a ceremony at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, at the National Exhibition Centre, on Wednesday, May 18, 2011.


The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), a safety charity, launched its awards programme 55 years ago. The scheme looks not only at accident records, but also entrants’ overarching health and safety management systems, including important practices such as strong leadership and workforce involvement.


David Rawlins, RoSPA’s awards manager, said: “RoSPA firmly believes that organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to continuous improvement in accident and ill health prevention deserve recognition. Park Health has shown that it is committed to striving for such continuous improvement and we are delighted to honour it through the presentation of an award.”


Karen Baxter, Director of Ill Health Prevention Services at Park Health said: “We are delighted to receive the Astor Trophy because it recognises the work we’ve been doing to integrate a focus on the workplace to prevent exposures that lead to disease with a more traditional worker-centric service.”


Park Health’s preventative occupational health management strategy integrates a focus on the workplace, led by occupational hygienists, to prevent exposures that lead to disease with a more traditional worker-focused treatment service, together with a wellbeing programme that engages both managers and operational staff.


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Trapped Personnel Alarms for Cold Stores


Stonegate Instruments (UK) has announced an increased demand as a direct result of companies that have cold stores and refrigerated warehousing facilities continuing to make it a priority to treat the welfare of their staff with the highest possible priority and also the need to comply with stringent health and safety legislation.


In addition, in its guidance on precautions to prevent a person being trapped in a freezer room or cold enclosed area, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) recommends that a minimum of an audible alarm actuator should be provided inside the cold area, which has also led to a boost in sales of Stonegate’s Trapped Personnel Alarm.


Stonegate’s Trapped Personnel Alarm has been designed to monitor latching emergency push buttons located inside cold stores and give audio as well as visual alarms if someone is trapped inside.


It can be panel door or wall mounted, is backed up by batteries and has mains failure alert mechanisms, as well as mute and repeat features.


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One Stop Shop for Risk Management, Compliance & Certification Services


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The Alcumus Group, a multi-disciplinary provider of risk management, compliance and certification services, reveals its newly formed portfolio of products and services. Comprised of three specialist operating businesses, The Alcumus Group offers services from safety, health and environmental compliance and advice consultants Sypol from UK (specialists in health and safety workplace risk management and training services); the compliance software and solutions company Info Exchange (leaders in health, safety and environmental property and standards compliance) and ISOQAR (UKAS accredited certification and training services).


Visitors to the Alcumus stand met the teams and found out more about Sypol’s CMS, COSHHSMART, SAFETYSMART and Accident Incident Tracker products, the new digital pen and paper technology to capture, track and report your business information from Info Exchange and the full range of certification and training services from ISOQAR, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.


Alcumus also demonstrated the full extent of its expertise by contributing to the educational content of the show with speakers participating in both the Occupational Health Theatre and Product and Innovation Hub programmes.


In the Product and Innovation Hub, Director of Info Exchange, Alan Neill, talked about Risk & Compliance Management Innovation, including a case study on the work that Info Exchange is doing with Capita Symonds and Karen Baxter, Managing Director for Sypol, spoke in the Occupational Health Theatre on the subject of “Occupational Health Management - An Integrated Approach” and contributed to the round table discussions.


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Sound Quality Focused Headphone Amplifier


Sound quality testing using consumer panels is now a much quicker process with the new Headphone Amplifier ZE-0769- 004 from Brüel & Kjær (UK)


Subjective listening tests are vital for assessing a product’s competitiveness and usually involves the evaluation of a product’s sound quality by a group (or jury), representing the targeted customer group, who undertake a listening test.


Typically this is usually a lengthy and expensive procedure, requiring each jury member to test drive the prototype vehicle, in order to report back on the sound quality.


This process has been sped up by using a binaural head - such as a Head and Torso Simulator (HATS) - in the car to make a high quality recording of the sounds directly onto the hard disk of a computer. The recording is then played back to all the panel members via headphones, at an off site venue.


Since the absolute level has a direct effect on juror preference, the headphone amplifier is designed to give the same level in all channels and has stepped gain control to be able to accurately return to a previous setting.


The amplifier produces an exact replica of the input signal and delivers the unfiltered (and possibly attenuated) signal to all outputs.


The amplifier supports listening panels for up to 12 people and is ideal for sound evaluation during the design phase, prototype evaluation or trouble-shooting of new vehicles.


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IET May / June 2011 www.envirotech-online.com


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