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Cornrnercial Motor/Contract Journal Safety Conference, Driving Accidents Down,Villa Park, Birmingham Has your safety record reached a plateau? The joint CM/CJ conference is packed with practical case studies on how to tackle the most frequently occurring accidents in road transport and construction including slips, trips and falls, reversing vehicles and falls from height. Other presentations include reducing claims by better incident management; an update from the HSE on forthcoming legislation on falls from height; and the role of the driver in reducing accidents.
For more information, see page 34. Contact: Teresa Murphy on 0208 652 3887; e-mail, teresam urphy@rbi.co.uk Have you got a forthcoming legal event, seminar or conterence that CM's readers should know about? Let us know and we will include it in our new events column, appearing every week from now on in the legal section.
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Write to Patric Cunnane, Legal Editor, Commercial Molar, Quadrant House, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS: 0208 652 3678 or e-mail: patric.cunnane@rbi.co.uk