More and more organisations are shunning traditional cards, and taking advantage of electronic forms of communication, to wish their clients ‘Seasons Greetings!’

This environmentally friendly alternative allows organisations to pledge the money that they save on cards to a charity of their choice. This is an excellent way of promoting the values that your organisation stands for, and benefiting from both positive publicity and feelings of goodwill. Last year, Cory Environmental celebrated its strong health and safety performance by giving a donation to RoSPA, instead of sending Christmas cards.

For more information, and to join Cory Environmental in making RoSPA your Christmas charity of choice, click here

Since the NEW child seat and seat belt laws were introduced in September 2006, RoSPA has been inundated with calls for more information on the effects of these changes. If you are a road safety professional or practitioner, the RoSPA resource, ‘Carrying Other People's Children Safely’ is a must to ensure the new laws are promoted and adhered to as widely and accurately as possible.

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Join Dr Stephen Ladyman in a live web chat about road safety from 4pm on Thursday 9th November.  Dr Ladyman will be online to answer your questions about young drivers, driving for work and other road safety issues. The live chat is a unique opportunity for RoSPA Members. More details will be available in next week's issue of Safety Connections and in the RoSPA Member Zone.

Welcome to our new feature from the RoSPA Infocentre, which this month gives you the low-down on the new Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order that came into force in October. The RoSPA InfoCentre answers around 400 health and safety related enquiries a month, and this new feature provides an opportunity for staff to share their expertise by publicly answering some of their more frequently asked questions.

Click here and read the first issue of In A Nutshell

Don’t miss out on invaluable networking opportunities at RoSPA’s Safety Awareness Exchange. This uniquely formatted event allows delegates to share, compare and benchmark with fellow health and safety professionals and gain advice from industry experts on latest developments.

What other event allows you to tailor the programme to your own needs and issues specific to your working environment? It’s your event…you decide! 

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RoSPA's Safety Education Journal is published termly and contains news, reviews, articles, updates and briefings. It keeps you in touch with government initiatives and with good practice from colleagues around the UK.

Find out more about the journal and how to subscribe

Ryder plc has introduced a driver-training programme that will see around 900 people annually assessed on their driving skills. At the heart is RoSPA's Driver Profiler, which assesses an individual's driving ability and the degree of risk they represent. Every 'high risk' driver will then be required to attend a one-day tailor-made RoSPA Defensive Driving course. 

Simon Head, Health, Safety, Environmental & Security Manager - Europe said: "We want to ensure that our drivers have the best training. By linking with RoSPA we have been able to develop a bespoke programme."

The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations place requirements on employers to maintain a healthy and safe workplace. RoSPA Consultants can assess, monitor and report on compliance with these regulations, and others, and produce a detailed report with recommendations for improvement where appropriate. The aim is to provide clients with common sense suggestions as to how they can better protect the health, safety and welfare of their employees.

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Thank you to everyone who had his or her say last week by voting in RoSPA’s ‘light campaign’ poll. Latest figures show that over 4,000 people voted, 86% of whom are in favour of RoSPA’s calls for lighter evenings in winter.

Organisations wishing to share their latest news with the safety community can contact us for details on adding their message to Safety Connections, or sponsoring an issue.

RoSPA is an independent charity and a uniquely comprehensive safety organisation. As a RoSPA Member you will be supporting our mission to save lives through preventing accidents in all walks of life. RoSPA Members also enjoy a range of benefits to help you to achieve your own safety goals, so join RoSPA today and see how we can help you.

You can also support RoSPA by arranging fundraising activities, or through a simple donation. RoSPA also have many sponsorship opportunities.