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New safety advice issued on electric gates

Installers, designers, maintenance firms and manufacturers of electric gates, are being urged to seriously consider new safety advice issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), following the recent deaths of two children involving these gates.

The safety alert points out that limiting the closing forces of gates alone will not provide sufficient protection to meet the relevant standards, and installers must fit additional safeguards to gates in public areas.

HSE’s Director of Field Operations, David Ashton, said:“ Electric or automatic gates are designed to stop if someone gets in the way, and installers and those maintaining these gates have a real duty to ensure this happens.

Date published: 04/09/2010

New safety advice issued on electric gates

Installers, designers, maintenance firms and manufacturers of electric gates, are being urged to seriously consider new safety advice issued by the Health and Safety Executive today, following the recent deaths of two children involving these gates.

The safety alert points out that limiting the closing forces of gates alone will not provide sufficient protection to meet...

Date published: 04/09/2010

North West farmers urged to strap up during harvest

Steven Smith, HSE Head of Operations in the North West

Farmers across the are being reminded to wear safety straps when driving their tractors, especially during the busy harvest period.

Not wearing a lap strap or seat restraint puts...

Date published: 02/09/2010

Tameside scores a first with iPhone app

Heard the term “we’ve got an app for that”? Well Tameside Council has scored a national first by providing an app which lets you find a Buy with Confidence trader through your iPhone.

No matter where you are, with just a couple of taps you can get full contact details for any one of almost 200 Trading Standards-approved Tameside traders and even get a map showing where...

Date published: 29/08/2010

Egypt delivers for Hyde manufacturer

A Manchester manufacturing company has completed new overseas orders of £86,000 despite the market conditions.

Newland Engineering, based in Hyde, makes a type of conveyor used to load and unload containers, trailers and long vehicles.

These telescopic belt conveyors are used in warehouses throughout the UK and across the world but the company was keen to exploit even...

Date published: 19/08/2010

Time called on cowboy scrap dealers

Tameside Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies

Time is being called on the activities of cowboy car scrap dealers.

A loophole in vehicle licensing rules that has allowed millions of cars to be scrapped but not deregistered is to be...

Date published: 16/08/2010

Bar closed down following reports of violence

A bar has been forced to close its doors following reports of violence.

Police asked for a review of the licence at Starlight Rooms, Manchester Road, Droylsden, after reports of violent disorder on the weekend of July 10 and 11 and concerns that there may be more.

A temporary closure order was granted by Tameside Council's licensing panel on July 14. However at a full...

Date published: 10/08/2010

Contractors appointed for Metrolink extensions

Kevin Ford, Gerard van de Aast, Andy Crompton, and David Leather

This week has been a landmark for Manchester’s Metrolink system as contractors were appointed to construct the new Metrolink line to Rochdale town centre.

GMPTE has appointed...

Date published: 07/08/2010

Warning that construction sites aren’t child’s playgrounds

Roofer working on a house roof

Building sites are not adventure playgrounds – that is the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) message to parents and children as school holidays get underway in the North West.

HSE is...

Date published: 07/08/2010

Major blow for salary sacrifice and flexible benefit schemes

Today’s decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Astra Zeneca case could lead to significant VAT costs for employers who operate, or intend to implement, salary sacrifice schemes and could mean fundamental changes to the way they are run, says RSM Tenon.

Date published: 02/08/2010

Scapa made a positive start to its financial year

Scapa based at Ashton under Lyne, an adhesive tapes and film maker, said it had made a positive start to its financial year, with sales in the first quarter up 10 per cent against a weak corresponding period in 2009.

Chief executive Heejae Chae, said it had seen strong performances in industrial and medical markets between April and the end of June.

Date published: 29/07/2010

North West projects hit by funding withdrawal

The Government has announced plans to replace Regional Development Agencies with Local Economic Partnerships.

The North West Development Agency (NWDA) said it had now essentially "closed for new business".

The government revealed it was scrapping the nine RDAs last month.

Date published: 27/07/2010

Tameside worker suffers multiple injuries in fall

Photo shows the section of roof David Pass fell through on Fairy Lane in Sale on 20 June 2007

Three men have been fined at total of £5,000 after a Tameside worker suffered multiple injuries when he fell eight metres through a barn roof.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE)...

Date published: 14/07/2010

French Student Tastes Life in Tameside

French students visiting Newland Enginering

A French student got the chance to experience working life in the UK thanks to a Tameside business.

Maite Magloire Negrit worked for eight weeks at Hyde-based Newland Engineering....

Date published: 13/07/2010

Older taxis targeted in safety crackdown

Enforcement officer Dave Smith and PC Darren Ankers help carry out taxi spot checks

Older and potentially run-down taxis and private-hire cars were targeted in a safety crackdown.

Just two out of 18 vehicles passed spot checks carried out by Tameside Council in...

Date published: 13/07/2010

Safety drive on cabs

Taxi

Older and potentially run-down taxis and private-hire cars are to be targeted in the latest round of spot safety checks.

Tameside Council licensing enforcement officers will be joined...

Date published: 08/07/2010

Fine for under-age sale

A shop assistant has been fined for selling cigarettes to a 14-year-old during a Tameside Trading Standards investigation.

Tameside magistrates heard on June 30 that Kathryn Barlow of Pelham Street, Ashton, made the under-age sale at Krishna News, Stockport Road, Ashton, on December 2 last year.

Date published: 07/07/2010

Confidence in North West Manufacturing Grows

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Confidence among North West manufacturers is growing according to the latest regional economic survey.

Chambers of Commerce North West’s Quarterly Economic Survey showed an encouraging...

Date published: 06/07/2010

North West drivers sceptical of eco-friendly cars

Car

A poll commissioned by the 2010 Bridgestone Eco Rally found that a quarter of people in the North West would not consider buying or driving an eco-friendly vehicle.

Of that number, more...

Date published: 02/07/2010

Hazards centre hit out at work place death figures

HSE logo

Greater Manchester Hazards Centre has hit out at figures from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) relating to deaths in the work place.

Hilda Palmer Co-ordinator of GMHC said: “No-one...

Date published: 02/07/2010

19 North West workers lose their lives at work

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A total of 19 workers were killed at work in the North West between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010, according to new figures released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) today...

Date published: 30/06/2010

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