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Promoting best practice to Health and Safety professionals

The NASC has once again had a successful 3 days at the Safety and Health Exhibition held at the Birmingham NEC during May 2008.

The NASC teamed up with other major access organisations including IPAF (powered access), PASMA (mobile access towers), Ladder Association and IRATA (rope access) under the umbrella name of the Access Industry Forum.

Each association had an exhibition stand, held presentations at the Working at Height seminar theatre to captive audiences and also drew huge crowds via a dramatisation in the Access Live area.


WORKING AT HEIGHT SEMINAR
Mick Sliney SGBDuring a busy 3 days the access industries presented to health and safety professionals the benefits and advantages of using an accredited association. For the NASC the most popular issue was the recently launched SG4:05 DVD, preventing falls from scaffolding and falsework. The expectation for the new edition of TG20 continues to be a topical issue as does the selection of competent scaffolding contractors on sites.

Ray JohnsonThe Working At Height seminar allowed the NASC to present 4 times to packed audiences, Mick Sliney (SGB), Ray Johnson (Safety and Access Ltd) and Simon Hughes (Simian Risk Management) updated audiences on the events within the scaffolding industry including, TG20, the Hire and Sale Code of Practice and the SG4:05 DVD.


Simon HughesAt times all the seats were full (approx 40) within the seminar resulting in the aisles becoming congested as visitors eagerly listened to the presentations. Numerous listeners then engaged the speaker in further questions after the presentation indicating that scaffolding is clearly an area of interest.


SILENCE IN COURT !
SHE crowdsBut maybe the most dramatic and crowd generating event within the whole exhibition was the Access Live event. Held within a massive 12 metre by 10 metre area opposite the access association exhibition stands, this event presented3 timesa day dramatised the aftermath of a fall from height and how itaffected the relevant parties involved including the boss, the mate and the injured party. Working with professional actors, loud sound affects and a dramatic scaffolding backdrop (kindly donated by Turner Access) the dramatisation unfolds at the scene and then quickly moves to the courtroom where a judge (complete in full regalia) resided over the proceedings.

This event drew crowds so large that crowd thronged over onto the association stands with at times lining 10 rows deep attempting to watch this spectacle.

Each dramatisation concluded with 'what they should have done', for the NASC this was a full explanation of what a NASC member must comply with to join the confederation and why sites should only use a regulated company.