NEWS 15 TRADE ACADEMY AND AWARDS
International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox has launched the National Trade Academy Programme and Board of Trade Awards at the second meeting of the revamped Board of Trade in Preston. The National Trade Academy Programme will offer a variety of new learning opportunities to upskill and engage students, businesses and academics.
Building international trade and investment related skills and knowledge across the UK, the programme will help foster a culture of exporting through a broad range of initiatives. This will include training and events in all parts of the country, such as a prestigious International Trade Summer School – run in partnership with the City of London – helping our future exporters
turn their ideas and ambitions into Britain’s global exports.Dr Fox recognised companies which have shown exceptional performance in international trade through the new Board of Trade Awards. A hallmark of British quality, these awards will become a globally-recognised certificate of excellence, shown on product labels of successful businesses of every size and from every corner of the UK. Four Board of Trade Awards winners announced were: engineering group Arup (North West), The Anglesey Sea Salt Company – Halen Môn (North Wales), bird feed and fish bait producers John E Haith (Haith’s) (Yorkshire and the Humber) and Blue Kangaroo Design, a Gateshead-based creative agency which has worked with the biggest names in the
toy, entertainment and licensing industry including the likes of Universal Studios, Hasbro and the Walt Disney Company (North East). Since its creation following the EU referendum, the Department for International Trade (DIT) has helped thousands of UK companies to start or grow their exports. Last year alone, DIT helped British businesses secure nearly 10,000 deals, worth tens of billions of pounds in exports and attracted 1,859 investment projects – creating 64,000 new jobs and safeguarding a further 28,000, while planning the UK’s future trade policy. There is a backdrop of growing exports in all regions of the UK. Latest ONS figures show the export of British goods and services rose by 11.5% to £625.9 billion in the year to January 2018.
BCGA TAKES WELDING HEALTH AND SAFETY MESSAGE FORWARD IN HSE VIDEO CAMPAIGN
The British Compressed Gases Association (BCGA) has put welding health and safety on the radar in a video produced under HSE’s ‘Go Home Healthy’ campaign. Doug Thornton, chief executive of BCGA sets out the serious implications of Occupational Lung Disease in the short film, available to view at www.
youtube.com/watch?v=g8aLysOGDeY HSE’s ‘Go Home Healthy’ ‘campaign is centered around everyone’s right to go home healthy from work. It calls for employers to do the right thing to protect the health of their workers both today and for the future and includes a web area dedicated to lung health at:
www.hse.gov.uk/ gohomehealthy/
lungs.htm Doug Thornton, Chief Executive of BCGA, said: “We hope this video goes someway to getting the message across that welding fume can permanently and severely affect health and foreshorten life, but it needn’t do.
“Welding, brazing and cutting are essential processes in manufacturing industry and all these processes depend
crucially on industrial gases. “However, precautions should be taken to avoid the inhalation of welding fume, not only by operatives doing the welding, brazing and cutting, but by others working nearby too.
BCGA is a strong advocate of health and safety in the welding sector. It has been working for a number of years alongside HSE and others in the industry to alert welders and their employers to the dangers of welding fume. The association’s website,
www.bcga.
co.uk also features a dedicated area ‘Welding Matters,’ available to view under the ‘Gas Topics’ section, which
included links to the BCGA Safety Alert on the hazards of Welding Fume, listed as Technical Information Sheet (TIS) 24.
Mr Thornton added: “A safe and healthy working environment features good fume
extraction or Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV), supported where appropriate by the best available PPE, such as air masks, to protect welders and their colleagues. “Unfortunately, too often we see that whereas the welder himself is protected by such, other workers operating or walking close by are not suitably protected or trained. “Employers, their safety managers and welders themselves should be aware of the legal responsibilities to provide a safe working environment and to adequately train personnel in best operating practices.”
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