Winners of the 2009 SHP IOSH Award for the Best Health and Safety Achievement in Health Care and Emergency Services, Bedfordshire & Luton Fire and Rescue Service, will be sharing their insights and best practices on using software to manage Health & Safety compliance at a seminar next month. Members of the Beds Fire H&S team will be looking at the business benefits they continue to reap by implementing a software system as well as delivering a demonstration of the Rivo Safeguard system which is used throughout their service. The seminar will take place on 9 March at Rivo’s office. For more information, please email grace.alexander@rivo.co.uk or telephone 01926 311300.

Be Your Own Boss is Warwick Universities’ answer to the TV series "Dragon's Den.”
The competition, which is open to all Warwick students, offers up to £2,000 in prize money for the winning entries. Winners need to submit an innovative business idea to a panel of expert judges. There are two categories in which entries can be submitted: the "Business" category and the "Ideas/Concepts" category.

The semi-final is taking place on February 8th, with a panel of judges from local businesses including Rivo Software , as well as Warwick alumni and one member of the academic faculty, judges are asked to select three ideas from each business category, which will then progress to present in front of 5 judges and an audience at the final on February 18th.

Be Your Own Boss is sponsored by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Accenture, Warwick Business School Enterprise Hub and the National Consortium of University Entrepreneurs (NACUE).

Rivo has signed up to the HSE’s strategy pledge where organisations agree to:

• Play their part in reducing the numbers of work-related deaths, injuries and ill-health.
• Commit to debunking myths around Health and Safety that trivialise the impact of injuries, ill health and deaths on individuals and their families.
• Recognise the importance of Health and Safety in difficult economic times and the dangers of complacency.

Over 1,000 organisations have signed the Pledge so far. The HSE are actively encouraging people to join the Pledge Forum to share news and ideas to help improve Health and Safety. To find out more or to share best practice ideas go to http://www.hse.gov.uk/strategy/pledge.html

We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at the IOSH 2010 Conference & Exhibition which is taking place at the SECC, Glasgow 24 -25 March 2010. Rivo can be found on Stand B21. If you would like to come and talk to us about the benefits of using software to manage Health, Safety and Environmental compliance can bring an organisation book an appointment beforehand to visit us at the Conference, please contact us on 01926 311300.

The annual IOSH Conference provides valuable information and best practice guidance to Health and Safety professionals. Lord Young will be delivering the opening address this year where he will outline his ideas for future Health and Safety regulation and guidance. This year’s programme features presentations from two Rivo clients, Natural History Museum and International Paint (AkzoNobel). Find out more at www.ioshconference.co.uk

Leading power and automation technology group, ABB, is to use Safeguard to manage incidents and audits. Headquartered in Zurich, ABB, formerly ASEA Brown Boveri, operates from more than 20 locations in the UK and employs around 2,300 people. Globally, the ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 111,000 people.

Rivo has been selected by Lincolnshire County Council to provided a mobile risk management solution which will allow them to pro-actively manage contractors, vehicles, routes, stops and accidents. Data in relation to vehicle inspections, route recording, passenger loading recording and bus stop risk assessments will be collected via a mobile device and then uploaded in to Rivo’s web-based application, Safeguard, providing Lincolnshire County Council with an effective tool to manage risk assessments and to record and report on incidents and vehicle inspections.

Transport Officer, Sandy Carruthers, commented: “ The risk assessment of Bus Stops is of paramount importance to Lincolnshire County Council. The solution provided by Rivo will greatly enhance this process.”

The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) was established in 1872 with the main objective of advancing the education of young women. Currently, the GDST owns and operates 29 schools which are located throughout England and Wales, educating approximately 20,000 students each year with over 4,000 employees.

The GDST were looking for a system to support their existing risk management processes. The GDST will be using Safeguard’s Accident and Incident Management module to record, monitor and manage incidents and investigations. Using Safeguard will allow the GDST to have complete visibility on the level of compliance across all locations and enable data to be interrogated quickly and easily for more effective reporting on Health & Safety.

Health & Safety Manager, Clare Cunningham commented: “We anticipate that using Safeguard will enable individual schools, and the Trust as a whole, to monitor and manage, more effectively any incidents that occur. The reporting tools will enable individual schools, and the Trust's H&S Advisers to quickly and easily analyse the data to identify trends, so that the information can be used to support the GDST’s existing risk management processes, increase efficiencies, and ultimately reduce incident rates.”

Rivo were highly commended at the recent ICT Excellence Awards in the Best Value Added Product category at the Awards ceremony held at the National Motorcycle Museum on 10 November. Mike Musson, ICT Cluster Manager noted: “We had a growth of entries this year and competition was stiff with 36 companies making it to the finals. The level of innovation, creativity and business effectiveness this year has really impressed the judges. All finalists should be proud of their achievements.”

Congratulations to British Sugar, the UK’s leading supplier of sugar, for receiving the DuPont Safety Award 2009 in the Innovative Approach category! The DuPont Safety Awards were launched in 2002 with the purpose of stimulating individual or collective initiatives for safety enhancement and accident prevention. Recipients of this Award are acknowledged for their commitment to safety and operational discipline as a business necessity as much as a moral obligation.

British Sugar UK received the Award for its company-wide personal safety initiative called ‘Safety Performance Discussions’. This initiative has contributed to demonstrable reduction in injury rates of over 70% during the last six years at British Sugar. Company Safety Manager, Ash Solanki, commented : “This Award I believe provides external recognition from the safest company in the world that every individual working or has worked at British Sugar UK (employee, contractor, consultant, agency, visitor) over the past 6 years has made a significant and conscious contribution to improve safety.”

Bedfordshire & Luton Fire & Rescue Service (BLFRS) has been recognised for its commitment to Health and Safety with success at the prestigious SHP IOSH Awards ceremony, held at the Hilton Park Lane Hotel, London last night, Wednesday 22 October.

BLFRS’s ‘We All Come Home’ campaign was judged to have outshone its rivals in the Best Health and Safety Achievement in Health Care & Emergency Services category. The aim of the campaign was to reduce the number of firefighter fatalities and increase awareness of effective Health and Safety. This was done by hosting discussion groups on firefighter safety to give crews the opportunity to provide feedback on Health and Safety issues. BLFRS then looked at the types of incidents where there had been firefighter fatalities, what steps had been taken by the Service to ensure operational safety prior to, during and after an incident. Then, using Rivo’s Safeguard system, they analysed accident statistics and the results from recent active monitoring initiatives. Since the campaign was completed last year BLFRS has had a marked reduction (25%) in the number of accidents to firefighters whilst on the fire ground at operational incidents.

Station Manager, Martin Statham, responsible for Health & Safety at Beds Fire, commented: “We are extremely proud to win this award which recognises all the hard work the Health and Safety team here have put in and the commitment of senior management to raise awareness of Health and Safety across the organisation. We are now looking forward to taking the campaign to the next level and ensuring the campaign is embedded into every aspect of operational activity.”

Click here to see an interview with Wayne Stringer of Bedfordshire Fire

Rivo has been working with a number of Fire & Rescue Services to develop specific FRS functionality for its risk management software solution and we would like the opportunity to discuss with you in more detail how this might benefit your Service as well. Features include:

• Fire investigation reports
• Multi-agency Post Incident Debriefs
• Risk Assessments – PUWER, LOLER, Noise
• Motor Vehicle Accident Investigations

For more information about the work we have done for Fire & Rescue Services, please get in touch.

Rivo have been shortlisted for The National Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public Procurement Awards for Best Service for their contract with the National Library of Scotland. This Award recognises the successful delivery of a contract between a private organisation working in partnership with a public sector organisation in Scotland. Organisations that have been shortlisted have been able to demonstrate a high level of collaboration with the buyer, a high level of understanding of end user requirements and have delivered a service which exceeds the expectations of the buyer.

Rivo worked with the five public sector institutions: National Library of Scotland, National Museums Scotland, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and the National Galleries of Scotland to implement a Health & Safety software system across all five institutions. This groundbreaking agreement between the five separate bodies has provided them with a much more coherent approach to safety management and has enabled substantial cost savings. The Ceremony takes place on 28 October 2009. More information can be found at http://www.govopps.co.uk/awardscotland/finalists.htm

The ICT Excellence Awards, now in their fifth year, designed to recognise the talents and achievements of the growing West Midlands ICT sector. Sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB), AWM, Business Link, The Daily Telegraph and IT Futures, the Awards are divided in to a number of categories including Best Innovative Product and Best Value Added Product. Marketing Manager, Grace Alexander shares her views about the Awards "We're delighted to be shortlisted for this Award as it means that our ability to demonstrate a measurable return on investment for clients has been recognised.”

Rivo has been able to show a measured return on investment for its clients in a number of areas including:

• Reduction in number of accidents and associated costs
• Reduced insurance premiums
• Enhanced claims defensibility
• Improve operational efficiency
• Shared best practice

More information can be found at http://www.wmictcluster.org/events/2009/awards2009

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was formed in 1954 to oversee the nation's nuclear research programme. Now the Authority is developing fusion as a sustainable, secure and carbon-free energy source. The Authority will be using Safeguard across their two sites to help streamline accidents, incidents and near miss recording and reporting and efficiently manage their Risk Assessment processes.

Managing occupational road risk has been described as the number one risk facing many organisations today. Rivo’s new ORR tool “RoadMarque” is already attracting significant interest from organisations looking for innovative solutions to help them cost effectively manage ORR. Using Safeguard together with RoadMarque offers a comprehensive risk management solution for organisations, from assessing individual driver risk and training requirements through to formal risk assessments, vehicle checklists and incident management. If you would like to know more about RoadMarque and the benefits it can deliver for your organisation, please contact catherine.hancock@rivo.co.uk

Rivo is delighted that both Bedfordshire & Luton Fire & Rescue Service and QinetiQ have been shortlisted in the ‘Best Health and Safety Achievement in Health Care & Emergency Services’ category of the prestigious SHP IOSH Awards. The Awards provide an excellent platform on which to promote best practice and excellence within the Safety, Health & Environmental sector. The final decision on the winners will be made by a panel of experts including IOSH President, Nattasha Freeman and TUC Senior Policy Officer, Hugh Robertson. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony which is taking place on October 21 at the Park Lane Hilton in London. Good luck to all!

Rivo recently hosted a couple of seminars around the theme of Occupational Road Risk; one in Warwick and one at the Headquarters of Strathclyde Fire and Rescue in Hamilton. The objective of the day was to give clients with some background information on occupational road risk and provide them with some ideas on how to manage road risk and implement some robust road risk strategies.

Statistics have shown that over a third of all road traffic accidents involve someone who is at work. At the seminars, we were fortunate to have a panel of expert speakers including RoSPA’s Head of Road Safety, Kevin Clinton. Kevin is responsible for developing, managing and promoting RoSPA’s road safety policies and also represents RoSPA on the Department for Transport’s ministerial Road Safety Advisory Panel. Kevin’s presentation looked at the number of road casualties and their underlying causes and covered some of the main occupational safety issues and key steps that companies need to follow in order to reduce their exposure.

We also had a legal expert from Biggart Baillie who talked about the legal implications for organisations of not properly managing road risk and also a consultant, Brian Bailey, who has worked with a number of organisations setting up road risk policies and procedures. Brian’s presentation looked at number of different ways that organisations can develop, produce and manage workable, practical and usable road risk policies and procedures.

The final part of the day was looking at driver risk assessments including online aptitude testing and psychometric assessment and risk scoring using RoadMarque and how Safeguard can be used to implement and manage road risk policies. Please email Grace Alexander grace.alexander@rivo.co.uk for further details about these events.

Independent Living Group (ILG) deliver high quality care, support and accommodation to adults with learning disabilities, communication difficulties and challenging behaviours. They have residential care homes across Hampshire, East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent and have an emphasis on promoting independence and providing quality of life to all service users.

ILG will be using Safeguard’s Accident Management Module to improve the way it captures and shares information throughout the organisation and to raise awareness of Health & Safety.

One of the UK’s largest trust ports, Port of Tyne, will be replacing their incident and accident reporting system with Safeguard. The Port of Tyne's business areas comprise: conventional & bulk cargoes; logistics; car terminals ; cruise and ferries; and estates.

Using Safeguard will help the Port of Tyne more effectively record, monitor and manage incidents and investigations. Safety & Environment Manager Steve Reid commented
"Given the Port’s diversity and because Safeguard is web-based, its flexibility and scalability is ideal in managing our HSE risks."

Based in Dubai, MKM Commercial Holdings, are a property development and commercial management company who own Wafi Property. MKM will be using Safeguard to more effectively manage their risk assessments and provide an integrated platform to manage accidents and incidents so that Health & Safety information can be shared across various locations.

Rivo sponsor Mouchel Excellence Awards

The Mouchel Excellence Awards took place on 12 March at the Andaz Hotel in London. The Awards, now in their fourth year, aim to celebrate and promote positive wellbeing and management practices throughout the organisation. Rivo was proud to sponsor the award for Health, Safety and Well-being which went to the M25 Sphere team and was presented to Andrew Preston, Linda Flint and Mark Naish by Mouchel's Chief Executive, Richard Cuthbert. Commenting on the Awards, Business Review and Excellence Director, Helen Baldwin said“Mouchel is committed to ensuring the health, safety and well-being of all our staff and these awards provide a great platform for rewarding good management practice in the business."

Rivo to exhibit at Safety and Health Expo 12 -14 May, NEC Birmingham

Come and visit us in Hall 2 on stand M30 at Europe's largest annual event for the industry, Safety & Health Expo 2009. Come and talk to us about how our class-leading Health and Safety software can be used to:

• Provide complete visibility of your Health, Safety and Environmental compliance
• Reduce the amount of administration and cost involved in managing your SHE processes
• Identify patterns and trends in your incident reporting
• Monitor the status of incidents, assign corrective actions and track progress

Rivo in the news: Building the business case for Health and Safety Software

Safety Management article by Matt Duckhouse of Rivo Software which looks at building the business case for implementing web-based health, safety and environmental software, featuring the best ways to get Board agreement in the current economic climate with measuable financial benefits. Read article in full (link to article )

Thames Water, who supply 2,600 million litres of tap water to 8.5 million customers across London and the Thames Valley, have selected Rivo to deploy world-class Safety & Health Management system to manage accidents and incidents, audits, training and DSE. Thames Water are are committed to achieving excellence in assessing and minimising all Health and Safety risks and Safeguard will provide Thames Water with an integrated platform so that Health & Safety data can be shared across departments and geographic locations, improving transparency and enabling them to proactively measure, manage and improve overall HSE business performance.

Rivo to exhibit at the University Safety Health Association (USHA) Conference 2009

The theme for this year's conference is "Health, Safety and Well-being Management Systems in practice." Rivo will be exhibiting at the conference taking place 6 - 8 April 2009 in Cardiff and we will also be giving a short case study presentation based on the work we have done with numerous clients within the education sector helping manage compliance, raise awareness of Health and Safety and share best practice. For further details about the conference go to www.cardiff.ac.uk/osheu/ushaconference

Rivo to exhibit at the IOSH Conference 2009

Rivo will be exhibiting at the IOSH Conference taking place in Liverpool 17 -18 March. Highlights of the Conference include the latest guidance from Geoffrey Podger, Chief Executive of the HSE, on the enforcement authority’s priorities and expectations; insights from Lord McKenzie on how the Health and Safety Offences Act is having an impact on health and safety practice; and new solutions to manage safety culture in times of organisational turbulence. If you are planning to attend, do come and visit us on stand F10 for a demonstration of the business benefits provided by Safeguard, our integrated Safety, Health & Environmental management software. Register online at www.ioshconference.co.uk

New Safeguard Client: International Paint (AkzoNobel)

International Paint is one of the worldwide market leaders in Marine, Protective, Yacht and Aerospace paint and has operations in 54 countries worldwide and over 6000 employees and is a part of the global organisation of AkzoNobel.

Rivo’s Safety, Health and Environmental software system, Safeguard, will be implemented worldwide in numerous languages to give International Paint control and visibility of all accidents and incidents.

The University of Leeds wins prestigious SHP IOSH Award

Rivo, sponsors of the SHP IOSH Awards, are pleased to congratulate its client, the University of Leeds, on winning the award for best achievement in local authorities and education. The annual SHP IOSH Awards provide a platform to promote best practice and excellence in the Safety, Health & Environmental sectors.

The University embarked on a bold campaign to embed Health and Safety at the heart of its strategy, to raise awareness of Health and Safety and provide clear information to help staff make informed decisions. The University worked hard to reach these goals by making changes such as:

• Appointing a team of faculty and service Health and Safety managers, along with the first Director of Health, Safety and Wellbeing in a UK university
• Doubling the Health and Safety budget to £1.4m over two years
• Writing new campus-wide Health and Safety policies
• Creating a campus-wide campaign to get everyone involved in Health and Safety
• Implementing Safeguard - Rivo’s web-based risk assessment application.

Gary Tideswell, Director of Wellbeing, Safety and Health collected the award, and said “We're delighted to have to have won this award which recognises the great steps our staff are taking in putting Health and Safety at the heart of their work. It shows how sensible risk management enables and supports student learning, innovation and world class research here at the University of Leeds."

Britain’s newest university signs up to use Safeguard
Formed through the union of The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College and the Kent Institute of Art & Design, the University for the Creative Arts is one of the UK's leading providers of specialist art and design education, offering strengths in art, design, architecture, media and communication. With 5 locations and around 6,500 students, the University was looking for a way of improving accident and incident recording and reporting and raising awareness of Health & Safety throughout the organisation.

Health and Safety Advisor, Emma Bodiam, commented: “We are very excited to be working with Rivo on the implementation of Safeguard within the University, we are confident that Safeguard will help us to improve not only the reporting and recording of incidents and accidents, but to provide us with a more robust and effective system for incident notifications, investigation, subsequent follow up action and incident trend analysis."

University of Leeds select Safeguard
The University of Leeds is the UK’s second largest university with 30,500 students, 8000 staff spread over 9 Faculties. Rivo are pleased to announce that the University of Leeds has chosen Rivo Safeguard to provide a common system for managing Risk Assessments and COSHH across all Faculties, Schools and Services.

Gary Tideswell, Director of Wellbeing, Safety and Health at the University of Leeds said: "The University of Leeds takes health and safety very seriously indeed, seeing it as a vital component in our ability to integrate world-class research and teaching. As part of our innovative approach to wellbeing, safety and health we are delighted to announce our partnership with Rivo to develop their Safeguard package to best meet our needs and support the management of risk assessments across campus."

Training Matrix
The training matrix can be used to manage employee training records and training requirements. The Matrix allows organisations to monitor and identify the following:

• Ensure employees are trained to carry out the tasks involved within their job roles
• Job roles and the different training requirements associated to them.
• Training requirements can be categorised for example as mandatory or optional, based on job roles. This allows training courses to be prioritised.
• Identify each employee’s training to date and future training required.
• The training matrix can also be used to identify the training completed, and required for third parties such as contractors.

Course Management
With the new functionality Safeguard users are now able to more efficiently manage a programme of courses by:

• Creating a training course where the potential delegate list is auto created based on the training matrix.
• Ensure the correct delegates are selected based on their job roles and the types of training to be delivered.
• Delegates are invited to attend, or are enrolled onto courses based on a defined minimum and maximum number of places on a course.
• All invites and enrolments are communicated via email notifications.
• Course registers are produced and automatically populated with delegate names and dates
• Completed courses are marked to identify delegate attendance / non-attendance, and pass marks.
• Non-attendance can be reduced through reminder emails for scheduled courses.

For further information about this new functionality go to www.rivo.co.uk/ module-training.aspx or contact us on 01926 311300.

Rivo Software is pleased to announce that our integrated management system for quality, environment and occupational Health and Safety has been approved to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 by an independent Certification Body.

Many of the controls that Rivo has put in place are managed using our software system, Safeguard. Specifically, Safeguard is used to record and manage accidents, incidents and near misses, for DSE assessments and the follow up of any issues raised, for recording Risk Assessments and ensuring that they are reviewed and updated regularly, for maintaining records of employee training and training needs, and for scheduling and recording our internal audits.

Managing Director Simon Hook commented “Continuous improvement of our business is a core Rivo philosophy. We are committed to achieving and maintaining effective and efficient business processes so that we can meet the requirements of our clients and deliver consistently high levels of client satisfaction .”

Rivo’s Managing Director, Simon Hook, has put on his hiking boots and set off to climb Mountain Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro located in Northern Tanzania, lures thousands of climbers, professional and amateur alike each year to attempt to conquer its 5,895-meter summit.

Having already raised around £13,000 for Leukaemia Research after running the London Marathon in April this year, Simon hopes to get more people to give blood as currently only 4% of the eligible population actually donates blood. Talking about his latest challenge Simon said “Leukaemia Research is a charity close to my heart as they are the only charity in the UK dedicated exclusively to researching blood cancers and disorders. They are committed to giving everyone living with Leukaemia the best chance of survival. Leukaemia Research receives no government grants and their life-saving research depends entirely on voluntary donations. I hope to do my bit and that I can also inspire you to help.” Further details can be found on Simon’s blog http://savealife.typepad.com/save_a_life/ Good luck Simon!

Rivo are pleased to announce that the University of Kent has decided to implement Safeguard to provide a more focused solution to managing its occupational Health & Safety across its two main sites.

Kingstown Works provide building maintenance and construction services in Hull and East Yorkshire and whose clients include Hull City Council, public and private sector buildings, churches, museums and libraries have selected Safeguard to provide a comprehensive health and safety management system to enable the organisation to record and report accidents and incidents more easily and to manage audits and risk assessments.

Health & Safety Advisor Martin Render commented: ”KWL has chosen Safeguard because it fitted all the requirements needed for the organisation to take its next step forward in effective Safety Management.”

The Redhall Group are a leading specialist engineering services group operating in the nuclear, oil, gas, petrochemical sectors. Safeguard has been selected to further enhance the Group’s commitment and focus on safety performance. Using Safeguard will give Redhall a more visible and proactive approach to managing SHEQ within an organisation with such diverse interests. Safeguard will be used for the recording and monitoring of accidents, incidents and near –misses throughout the Group, to highlight any problem areas quickly so that preventative measures can be put in place.

Steve Long, Director of Safety, Health, Environment & Quality, commented: ”we believe Safeguard will enable us to access information much more swiftly enabling us to respond to events and incidents quickly. It will also save a considerable amount of our safety teams time, allowing them to focus on real issues in the workplace rather than spending their time completing Client and Board reports which the configured system will produce automatically."

Rivo are proud to sponsoring the SHP IOSH Awards again. The Awards Ceremony is taking place on Wednesday 8 October 2008 at the London Hilton, Park Lane. The evening will provide an opportunity to reward examples of innovation, excellence and best practice within Health and Safety.

The list of categories for the awards are as follows:

• Best Health and Safety achievement in Construction
• Best Health and Safety achievement in Health Care and Emergency Services
• Best Health and Safety achievement in Manufacturing
• Best Health and Safety achievement in a Local Authorities and Education
• Best Health and Safety achievement in Transport and Logistics
• Best Health and Safety achievement in a Utilities
• Training Initiative of the Year
• Consultant of the Year
• Achiever of the Year
• New Entrant
• Innovation of the Year
• Campaign of the Year
• Partnership Initiative of the Year

Rivo will be exhibiting at the annual Health and Safety event, Safety & Health Expo 08 at the NEC, Birmingham. Running from 13 to 15 May, features include an extensive exhibition, live demonstration areas and a comprehensive seminar programme. Rivo will be demonstrating its new Environmental management system which helps organisations improve their environmental performance by monitoring environmental impacts and aspects. To find out more come and visit us at stand A3.

Further details can be found at www.safety-health-expo.co.uk

QinetiQ, one of the largest defence research organisations in the world, has selected Safeguard to help streamline accidents and incidents recording and reporting and manage their COSHH processes.

Rivo is pleased to announce the introduction of our new Environmental Management System (EMS), which is fully integrated with our existing Safety and Health platforms.

The system is designed to help organisations manage all their environmental “aspects” and “impacts”, including Environmental Audits, Events, and Risk Assessments, whilst also co-ordinating all Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting data.

The EMS allows organisations to streamline their environmental management information and to have access to real-time environmental information for reporting purposes.

Features of the EMS include the easy identification of environmental patterns and trends so that areas of non-conformance can be identified quickly.

Simon Hook, Managing Director, commented: “Clients have come to rely on our existing Safeguard platform to provide standardisation, control and visibility across their organisations for Safety and Health issues. From that base, development of our new Environmental Management System has been led by demands of our clients, who saw the potential to extend the functionality of our best-in-class software”.

If you are attending IOSH 2008 18 -19 March 2008, The International Centre, Telford, come and see us on Stand C15 for a demonstration of the business benefits provided by Safeguard, our integrated Safety, Health & Environmental management software.

B&Q, the number one DIY retailer in Europe and the third largest in the world, with more than 60 stores opened internationally, is to use Safeguard to improve the way in which it manages accidents and incidents across its stores.