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Safety Management Systems – Helping you stay on top of Health & Safety

When we start working with a new client, we sometimes find that they’ve made a well-meaning attempt at getting to grips with a Safety Management System. They might have a Health and Safety Policy, some risk assessments, and maybe a procedural document or two. But often, these are written in a way that make them overly […]

We’ve somersaulted our way to a new health and safety consultancy contract with Ryze

We are happy to announce that we’ll be working in partnership with Ryze Leisure UK to provide ongoing health and safety consultancy services for their trampoline parks. As a physical activity centre, they face a unique set of challenges to ensure the safety of their customers and staff, and we look forward to supporting them […]

Merry Christmas!

All the team at Amalgamate would like to wish you a very merry christmas, and a happy hogmanay. 2016 has been a busy, interesting and challenging year, and we’ve enjoyed working with new clients, developing our relationships with our existing clients, moving into our new office, and learning some different skills. We can’t wait to see what 2017 has in […]

We’re in the driving seat for safety with West Coast Motors!

From directors to drivers, West Coast Motors take pride in their safety management. So we’re delighted to announce a new health and safety partnership with the privately owned transport group. Based in Campbeltown and established in 1923, the company employs approximately 415 staff, and has a fleet of 220 buses, coaches and boats. It owns and operates the following transport […]

Bright Lights, Big City

Exciting New Glasgow Hub for Amalgamate We’ve had a great start to 2016, and as Amalgamate continues to grow we’ve found a need to accommodate our new staff, and to work even more closely with our new and existing clients. That is why we wanted to let you in on our exciting news! We’ve opened […]

New H&S Sentencing Guidelines – Are you ready?

New Sentencing Guidelines come into effect in February 2016. Is your business ready? The Sentencing Council’s new guidelines aim to ensure a consistent approach to health and safety, corporate manslaughter, and food safety and hygiene cases, and will lead to a more severe response to these cases, and potentially higher fines. Company directors who are […]

A great Health and Safety career opportunity

We are currently looking for a Health and Safety Consultant to help service our expanding portfolio of clients. We need an enthusiastic, confident and self‐motivated individual, who is comfortable working unsupervised to deliver health, safety and fire consultancy services to clients from a wide range of sectors. Ideally, the candidate will be able to demonstrate that they: Are […]

CDM 2015 – Are you prepared for the proposed changes?

As many of you will be aware, there are changes being proposed to the Construction (Design and Design) Management Regulations in 2015. These significant changes to CDM will have implications to those involved in the design process and will affect how you are currently managing projects. The proposed changes include the removal of the CDM […]

Getting ready for the changes to ISO14001

ISO14001 is the recognised standard for environmental management, and is based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach, which enables organisations to manage environmental performance within a sustainable model. Some changes will be made to ISO14001:2004 in 2015. These are aimed at providing improved benefits and consistency across management systems to organisations which use multiple ISO standards. Here’s […]

What you need to know about FFI

There’s been a lot of discussion about Fee For Intervention recently. So what exactly is it all about? The Health and Safety Executive’s Fee For Intervention (FFI) scheme was introduced in October 2012, and means that companies who break health and safety laws must pay a fee to cover HSE’s related costs – including for […]