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• 17-18 September: Motorway Service Areas Conference 1996, Marriott lotel. London. Contact: 0171 233 7600.
• 17-18 September: 4th Inter national Conference on the Automotive Industry and the Environment. Renaissance Hotel, Brussels, Belgium. Cost: £793.13. Contact: 01332 292865.
• 18 September: Northern Region Road Haulage Association Employment Seminar in conjunction with ACAS, The Post House, Forte Hotel, Haydock.
Contact: 0836 334611 • 19-20 September: Transport Telematics, Control and Information Systems 5th annual conference, Cafe Royal, London. Contact: 0171 453 2700.
• 24 September: SMMT New Markets New Business Conference, Forbes House, Halkin Sh-eet, London SW1. Cost: £125.
Contact: 0171 235 7000.
• 25 September: British Road Federation Modern Roads Conference, Volvo Trucks Conference Centre, Warwick.
Contact 0171 703 9769.
• 24 Sept-14 Nov: Norgren will stage its Pneumatics (,n the Move travelling show in six places in the autumn. The free twoday shows will include three seminars. The dates and venues are: 24-25 Sept, Middlesbrough Football Club; 9-10 Oct Stakis Norwich Hotel; 15-16 Oct. Trentham Gardens; 23-24 Oct. Maybury Hotel, Edinburgh; 29-30 Oct. Preston North End Football Club; 13-14 Nov, Heronston Hotel, Bridgend. Contact 01543 414333.
• 26-28 September: Auto'Ex 96 Exhibition. Centrex Training and Conference Centre, High Ercal, nr Shrewsbury Contact: 01270 501900.
vice offers 08:30 and 10:00hrs guaranteed delivery times to Paris, and includes telephone confirmation and inclusive compensation.
Contact: 0800 224466.
I The Institute of Road Transport Engineers (IRTE) has published its pocket guide Health and Safety Skills for Engineers and Everyone. The handbook spells out the health and safety requirements at work involved with current legislation affecting the commercial and industrial worlds. Cost: £3.50.
Contact: 0171 630 1111.
• Training company M1QA Training have set tip two new quality standards in the workplace courses. The one and five-day courses, working towards quality standard QS 9000, train staff in the design and implementation of quality standard work systems and how to assess the techniques involved. Cost: One-day course a15/five-day £495 (same price for two combined). Contact 01444 458111.
Haz regs
• PIRA, the research organisation for the paper, packaging, printing and publishing industries, has organised three one-day seminars on the new UK regulations for the transport (yf dangerous goods. The seminars will provide a basic explanation of the operational implications of the new regulations, which have to be implemented by 1 January 1997 for all those Who consign or transport dangerous goods by road or rail.
The dates and venues are: 18 September PIRA International, Leatherhead. 24 September Hilton, Manchester 'iiirport. 3 October Moat House, Glasgow.
Cost: Z230/3265.
PIRA has also set up a similar two-day course for those exporting dangerous gpods to the US.