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Update on Legal Privilege

A couple of recent court rulings have produced new issues for lawyers advising their clients about professional legal privilege with regard to internal investigations. Whereas up until recently legal privilege has protected communications between clients and lawyers for litigations that are both in progress and contemplation, the court cases of Serious Fraud Office v. Eurasian […]

Fire Safety Advice for Evolution Skatepark

Amalgamate are delighted to be providing fire safety advice to Evolution Skatepark – an extreme sports facility in Ayrshire. The park is run by a community group, and offers children and young people a safe and secure environment in which to participate in a range of sports, including BMX, skateboarding and in-line skating. We’re particularly pleased […]

A unique partnership with Viewpoint

Amalgamate have created yet another unique partnership, having been chosen to work with Viewpoint Housing Association Ltd. Viewpoint’s aim is to create joy in later years by managing a range of supported housing and care services for older people in Edinburgh, the Lothians, and Fife. Their goal is to improve the quality of life and […]

HSE’s Training Guidance Changes for First Aid Courses

The Health and Safety Executive have recently amended their First Aid at Work training guidance, bringing in improvements to content, and recommending more modern teaching styles. The main changes are: The introduction of blended learning as an accepted method of first aid training delivery. This allows a combination of both online digital media and traditional […]

What a team! Amalgamate secures 3 year health and safety contract with sportscotland

Amalgamate is straight off the starting line after winning a three year contract to provide expert health and safety advice and act as Competent Safety Advisor for sportscotland – the national agency for sport. As one of Scotland’s leading health and safety consultancy specialists, Amalgamate will be offering comprehensive advice and ongoing support to sportscotland at […]

Part-time Administrative Assistant role available

There is currently an opportunity for a part-time Administrative Assistant to join our team. We are looking for a self‐motivated person to support our health and safety consultants in providing excellent service to our portfolio of clients. The role will primarily consist of proof-reading and formatting of technical reports in Pages and PDF formats, and […]

Health and Safety Training for New Hotel Staff – Getting it Right from Day 1!

It’s always good to get out and about in Scotland, so we enjoyed travelling up North to deliver a range of health and safety training to the team at Perle Oban as they got their new hotel ready to open. The hotel is part of the Perle Hotels group, an independent hotelier with 3 existing […]

Asset Protection – fire door survey for international manufacturer

The Fire Door Survey We recently completed an extensive fire door survey for a large international soft drink manufacturer. Their production site had around 200 fire doors and emergency exits. All of these needed to be visited and checked to see whether they were fit for purpose. Our Fire Safety Consultant, Billy Murdoch, spent the […]

Fire and Legionella Risk Assessment of new accommodation in Glencoe

At Amalgamate we’re always enthusiastic about supporting the growth of our clients, so we’re very pleased to have been able to provide further health and safety services to Glencoe Activities as they expand into providing accommodation. We’ve worked with them previously, doing Risk Assessments on their golf course, so we were pleased to get involved in […]

Health and safety management services for Ypeople

We’re thrilled to announce that we are now working with Ypeople – a fantastic charity that operates across Scotland. They deliver a broad range of approaches to support children, young people and families, for example providing accommodation support, homelessness support, counselling and mentoring services. With around 170 employees, thousands of service users per year (including residential […]