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• The new Approved Code of Practice on Management of Health and Safety at Work gives practical guidance on how to comply with the 1992 regulations and is available from the Health and Safety Commission.
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations, laid before Parliament in September, implement the EC framework directive on the workers' health and safety improvements. These are the first in a series of six sets of regulations implementing EC directives which are due to come into force on 1 January 1993.
Management of Health and Safety At Work — Approved Code of Practice, ISBN 0 11 886330 4, is now available from the HMSO, priced at £5.
Drays of yore
• Whitbread's pensioners' old photographs of their time with the company are published in a pictorial history Whitbread — 250 Years of Brewery
Transport.
Written by Arthur Ingram, a Whitbread pensioner and member of the Chartered Institute of Transport, the book tells the story of the development from horse-drawn drays to today's high-spec tankers, It is published by Roundoak Publishing at 15.95 (hardback), or £11.95 (paper covers).
Contact Catherine Barnes co (0272) 292311.
VAT for '93
• International hauliers can now obtain copies of the EC Guide to VAT for 1993. Topics include the VIES system, business-to-business sales, sales to individuals, contract work and the transport of goods.
Copies of the guide are available from Bryn Jones, Jones & Jones Consultancy Services, 1 Leeds Road, Thorpe Willoughby, Selby, North Yorkshire Y08 9LS. Please enclose an A4 stamped and addressed envelope.
Still bumping along the bottom
• There are still no signs of a pick-up in manufacturing industry, according to the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply's latest monthly survey of UK purchasing managers. October's price index recorded a sharp rise on the back of sterling devaluation, but both output and new orders showed little change on the previous month.
Contact Jim McColl at the CIPS on (0780) 56777.
PRODUCTS Shining light
• GEO Safety Products has launched a Belisha Beacon which it claims is more visible than traditional beacons.
SAFETY PRODUCTS
Makeng Bracrin's Roads Safer
Visibeacon is the result of a two-year venture between ICI Acrylics and GEO to boost the beacon material's reflective and refractive properties.
Contact GEO Safety Products on (0734) 770473.
Calling all winches
• Winch and equipment maker Bushey Hall has produced Winch-Mate, a remote control unit.
The radio control is available in two kit forms — external mounting with waterproof box, or internal mounting — and has
controls allowing it to operate other hydraulic functions on specalist vehicle equipment.
Contact Bushey Hall Winches on 081-953 6050.
Total quality dealer move in Camberley
• Camberley-based GSi Motor Trade has expanded its 'quality circle' initiative by introducing a Total Quality Management programme.
The company claims TQM has played an important role in the development of Lexter, its new Unix-based software for franchised dealers across Europe.