Title | Short Description | Source | Date |
MPA Health and Safety Awards 2024 Deadlines Extended |
In response to member requests, we have extended the deadlines for entries to the MPA Health and Safety Awards as below.
- Deadline for entries in 8 Topics – 12 noon Tuesday 7th May 2024.
(This is an absolute deadline and only in exceptional circumstances will anything after this time be accepted. If you can submit entries by 30th April it would be much appreciated)
- Deadline for entries for Individual Recognition and Young Leader Award –
12 noon Monday 3rd June 2024.
- The deadline for Sir Frank Davies and John Crabbe Trophy –
Monday 9th September 2024 remains unchanged.
Watch this video to find out why you should enter and please share it with others in your company
|
|
| MPA | 25/04/2024 |
MPA Health and Safety Awards 2024 - 30th April Deadline Approaching Fast - Enter Now | Watch this video to find out why you should ENTER NOW and please share it with others in your company.
Find out how those who entered last year have benefited here.
The simple to complete entry forms and briefing notes can be downloaded from the Safequarry website. The deadline for all entries is 30th April 2024, with the exception of entries for the John Crabbe Trophy and Sir Frank Davies Award (which are open to MPA members only), which is 9th September 2024.
| MPA | 11/04/2024 |
Public safety warning for operators of both active and disused quarries prior to Easter Holidays | As we approach the Easter break and school holidays, MPA is requesting members to be extra vigilant and for quarry operators to review their public safety risk assessments and any site-specific, mitigation measures such as fencing and warning signs.
With the unusually wet weather experienced across the UK, water levels are higher than normal, currents stronger in waterways, most inland water bodies are still very cold, paths and banks are muddy and unstable, making slips and falls by pedestrians more likely. These conditions increase the potential for members of the public entering quarries to put themselves at risk of falling over faces or into water.
Click on title for more information and links to resources
| MPA | 27/03/2024 |
MPA Midland Region Health & Safety Awareness Day - Some Spaces Still Available! - Book Now |
Thursday 11th April 2024, Nottinghamshire
Book Now and Gain 8 Hours CPD
Returning for the first time since October 2019, the MPA Midland Region Health & Safety Awareness Day is taking place on Thursday 11th April at the Tarmac National Skills & Safety Park in Nottinghamshire. The day is designed to promote best practice and encourage the whole workforce to be the eyes and ears of fellow workers.
The booking form can be found here. For all enquiries, please contact Jane Blake at [email protected].
Topics covered on the day will include:
Mental Health, Working in Confined Spaces, Conflict Management, LOTOTO and Isolation, Working at Height and Emergency First Aid, with an emphasis on the use of defibrillators and CPR.
Event presenters and supporters include Reece Safety, MSA Safety, Dawn Collins Training, Westlake Management and Pulse EMT, along with Tarmac, Latus Health Group/IDC, MPQC and the Institute of Quarrying.
Members, non-members, contractors, hauliers and all other interested parties are more than welcome to attend.
| MPA | 22/03/2024 |
Fatal 1 - TRANSPORT - Disconnecting hoses whilst still under pressure - Eurobitume Guidance Oct 2023 |
Occasionally, a bitumen delivery which has commenced cannot be completed for a number of reasons. When this happens, the weight of the remaining bitumen in the truck trailer puts pressure on the hose and this poses a safety risk for uncoupling.
Eurobitume has developed a new guidance document, ‘Recommendations to disconnect hoses in case still under pressure’, which shares good industry practises about how to safely disconnect hoses when a delivery is incomplete.
This new guidance document is available in English, German and French
| Eurobitume UK | 07/03/2024 |