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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
By Kerry Jones
 I need to see your safety passport before you can come on site. Literally hundreds of thousands of people hear that phrase or something like it everyday in the UK and yet Safety Passports can seem like a black art to some. What are they? Where do I get one and most importantly which one do I get? They are the dilemmas that most people are faced with.
Well, let me see if I can demystify the Health and Safety Passports industry a little for you.
In the UK there are three main players, each having issued over six figures worth of Safety Passports to individual contractors.
- The Client Contractor National Safety Group CCNSG (also known as SCATS)
- The Construction Skills Certification Scheme - CSCS Card
- The Safety Pass Alliance (SPA)(also known as the Epic card, the UKPIA card, the Food card and The Passport to Safety)
So do I need more than one passport?
The problem is that it is down to the Client as to which particular passport scheme they implement on their site. Some passports |
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Sunday, 15 June 2008 |
By Jerry Shepard
 Going to a horserace? Perhaps you are going to trapse around the wild in search of our ornithological friends (birdwatching)? Then you will be needed a good pair of binoculars. After you have purchased them, you will not get much use from them if you do not take proper care of your binoculars. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and this adage holds true whether its changing the oil in your car at regular intervals or performing maintenance on your binoculars.
The first rule of proper binocular care is the same rule for doctors when they take the Hippocratic Oath which is first, Do No Harm. Your binoculars will not work very well for very long if you are constantly dropping them or mistreating them. Binoculars are a sensitive piece of ocular equipment and while they may seem sturdy, any repeated physical blow can cause the lenses to misalign and to blur the image.
So now that we are making sure that we are avoiding overt physical damage, we need to focus on proper cleaning. Maintaining the lenses is |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 15 June 2008 )
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