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OBE AWARDED TO BOHS PAST PRESIDENT
BOHS, The Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, has celebrated after Trevor Ogden, a past president, was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours list, for services to occupational hygiene and workplace air quality. Trevor was president of BOHS in 1991, and has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in occupational hygiene, accomplishing numerous, pre-eminent achievements including: Chief Editor of the Annals of Work Exposures and Health, from 1997 – 2012 Developed a method of measuring the inhalation hazard of radon progeny in flammable atmospheres, which became a standard method for these measurements in British coalmines
Developed the Regulatory Interlaboratory Counting Exchanges (RICE) quality assurance scheme and methods of internal quality control: 35 years later these are still used by the HSE publication HSG248 “The Analysts’ Guide”, and UKAS guidance for asbestos counting accreditation Trevor’s award means he is now part of another select group i.e. BOHS past presidents who have been honoured with an OBE: Michael Molyneux (president
in his world, learning from him. So our building process felt a bit like my taking an apprenticeship in cutting and welding metal and learning about cars. It was definitely a bonding experience” said Hetain.
“Another significant influence for me and this work are Transformers, an American film and toy franchise since 1984, and a widely recognisable pop culture reference that reaches far back in my memory. In this new sculpture, Transformers have been made manifest, physically, in a literal transformation of a Ford Fiesta car into a large-scale squatting human-like figure. For me, these ‘robots in disguise’ (as per the cartoon’s theme tune) stand as a metaphor for the other, in a fantasy world where they can transform out of a marginal
in 1979); Charles Veys (1989); and Bob Sithamparandarajah (Bob Rajan, 2012). Simon Festing, CEO of BOHS, said: “BOHS offers sincere congratulations to Trevor, in being recognised for the considerable contributions he’s made to occupational hygiene over the years. His award coincides with a noteworthy year for BOHS, as we mark our 65th anniversary – a timely opportunity to reflect on our achievements, and the impact made by occupational hygiene to improving worker health protection.” Simon added: “In order to continue to make an impact, it is critical to ensure that we – along with our stakeholders – maintain our efforts to achieve our vision of a healthy working environment for everyone.” Trevor continues to make contributions to the world of worker health protection: recently he has been a British delegate and BOHS nominee to the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), which has revised EN689, on measuring compliance with Occupational Exposure Limit (OELs). Forty three years after his first presentation at a BOHS conference, he will present on this latest work at OH2018 in April, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
position into one of empowerment. “Importantly, I created this sculpture together with my father, with additional help from my engineer brother and fellow Transformers enthusiast, Pritum Patel. My father, whose day job is to convert cars into hearses and limousines for funerals, has carried out all the fabrication and structural work with me.”
Unlike the popular toys and films, however, the car here is not a high- powered sports car or truck transformed into a powerful warrior, but rather a small inexpensive Ford Fiesta transformed into a human-like figure calmly squatting.
Fiesta Transformer was at Studio 144 John Hansard Gallery in Guildhall Square, Southampton.
AUTOMOTIVE CONFIDENCE
International confidence in the UK’s automotive sector was bolstered in March as Toyota announced it will build its new generation Auris model at its Burnaston factory in Derbyshire. In a further vote of confidence for UK engineering expertise, the majority of engines for the new model will be sourced from the company’s Deeside factory in north Wales, helping secure 3,000 jobs across the 2 sites.
Business Secretary Greg Clark welcomed the decision during a visit to the Burnaston factory , where he met teams who will be working on the new model. The decision was helped in part by government investment of more than £20 million announced last year to support the upgrade of the facility and the installation of a new production platform to make the plant more competitive and enable it to build more advanced vehicles.
The investment follows the publication of last month’s landmark sector deal between government and the automotive sector, a vital moment in establishing the UK’s leadership in meeting the Future of Mobility and Clean Growth Grand Challenges. Business Secretary Greg Clark said:
“We have been clear in our commitment to ensuring the automotive sector continues to go from strength to strength which is why, through the Industrial Strategy, we established a landmark Automotive Sector Deal that will see us working with industry to put the UK at the forefront of new technologies and future investment decisions. “Toyota’s decision to build its new Auris model in Burnaston is testament to the highly-skilled and committed workforce that helps make the UK’s automotive sector one of the most productive in the world, and this government will continue work to create the best possible environment to maintain this fruitful relationship.” The UK’s automotive sector continues to thrive with the UK currently the third largest European car producer with the highest productivity among Europe’s automotive producing nations. The sector generates £14.6 billion, representing 8.2% of the UK’s total manufacturing gross value added.
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