Book Course HSL is to run a 1 day course on HSE Inspectors’ Guide to Electrical Safety. 14 September 2016 This workshop will be delivered by current and former Specialist Electrical Inspectors with extensive industry experience including giving guidance to duty holders, experience with serious incident investigations and enforcement action. The workshop is based on HSE’s practical enforcement experience which arises out of the businesses it inspects, generally those in the higher risk industries but also those where although the hazards can be high, the risks are thought to be well-controlled.   The workshop will give you a practical understanding of what HSE inspectors are looking for in the control of general electrical safety risks, including the risk and appropriate controls. You will review known high risk electrical safety issues together with the appropriate controls based on HSE’s investigation experiences and understand the practical application of HSE’s Enforcement Management Model. Relevant legislation, guidance and industry best practice. High-risk and priority issues an HSE inspector will focus on in general electrical safety. Managing electrical distribution networks and controlling risks to third parties; legislation, guidance. How to reflect on and plan for any necessary improvements in the control of risks associated with electricity before an HSE inspector calls. Electrical safety issues that are likely to trigger enforcement action. What happens when things go wrong? (An insight into forensic investigation) Health and Safety Professionals responsible for managing or advising on the interface between businesses and the HSE.  Business owners, senior managers and technical specialists responsible for managing and controlling general electrical safety risks. Owners and operators of both public (licenced) and private (unlicenced) electrical distribution networks. The course will be run at the HSL laboratory in the spa town of Buxton. Buxton is in the heart of the Peak District and has good links to mainline train stations and Manchester International Airport. Details of hotels in the Buxton area can be found at www.visitbuxton.co.uk The cost of this course is £495 per person (includes course notes, lunch and refreshments). Book Course     Please note the invoice option is not available within 4 weeks of the course date, or for overseas customers.  If you are selecting the invoice option for payment, it will be mandatory to input a purchase order/reference number as we are unable to process booking forms without this. For further dates and additional information email: training@hsl.gsi.gov.uk or contact the Training & Conferences Unitat HSL directly on +44 (0)1298 218806. Back to Health & Safety Training Courses Back to the top Source link

©Bloomberg Millions of square feet of UK shopping centre space will never be built despite having planning permission, as a challenging retail environment makes developments unviable, according to a new report. The rise of online retail and a drop in high street footfall mean the cost of building or redeveloping many centres would exceed their value, property consultancy Colliers International found. More On this topic IN Property It said more than 10m sq ft of new-build centres and expansions to existing shopping malls scheduled to be built in the next three years would not be completed. “Shopping centres typically take 10-20 years to put together, and many of them hit the building stage during the depths of the recession,” said Mark Phillipson, head of retail at Colliers. “Although we’re in a much more stable economic environment now than in 2008, the market is still not buoyant enough to start building brand new shopping centres. They’d need a prolonged economic boom for that to happen.” The report follows some of the most high-profile failures on the UK high street in nearly a decade. This month BHS said it would close after 88 years, with the loss of 11,000 jobs and 164 stores. Formal menswear retailer Austin Reed, whose suits had been worn by celebrities and dignitaries, also closed, with analysts pointing to the rise of strong online competitors as a factor in their demise. Richard Hyman, an independent retail analyst, said: “In the last 10 years, online alone has added the equivalent of 110m sq ft of trading space — that’s roughly equal to 65 additional Westfield London shopping malls. An increase in supply of retailers, with no increase in demand, has left the industry massively oversupplied.” Nevertheless, the Colliers report found that for prime retail locations across the UK, commercial rent prices were almost unanimously rising for the first time since the recession. “It’s the rosiest picture for prime locations since 2008 — only 5 per cent of prime locations have reported a slide in rents in the last year,” Mr Phillipson said. Developments that are going ahead are primarily in affluent areas, and are extensions to existing sites rather than new builds. Westfield shopping centre is expanding by 800,000 sq ft in a £1bn project that will make it the largest shopping centre in Europe. “It used to be a case of ‘build it and they will come’, and retailers were working on that principle when they planned new stores 20 years ago,” Mr Hyman said. “But the market has changed so much since then, and with a few notable exceptions such as Westfield, there’s not enough demand to justify those new builds today.” Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2016. You may share using our article tools. Please don’t cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Source link