Breaking Ground Podcast: New Episode Now Live

Breaking Ground, a podcast collaboration between Ground Engineering Magazine and the Ground Forum, have released a new episode which is available for free listening:

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Hosted by Steve Hadley, Breaking Ground covers a wide range of ground engineering related topics. Key themes include sustainability, design, commerce, diversity, health and safety, welfare, construction techniques, education, and industry challenges. Episodes also profile industry members' careers within the context of discussing industry issues, construction techniques and case studies.

Breaking Ground is available for free download on channels including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

For further information on the podcast or for podcast sponsorship opportunities please email gforum@ground-forum.org.uk.

Publication of AGS Loss Prevention Guidance 2022

The AGS Loss Prevention Guidance is a collection of papers providing members with guidance on particular issues that could affect legal liability and financial exposure. Guidance papers address issues such as those relating to liability, contract, insurance and health & safety.

Papers published prior to 2017 (collectively referred to as the Loss Prevention Tool Kit) were reviewed in 2017 by the AGS Loss Prevention Working Group and a practising barrister to ensure that the legal basis on which the guidance was based, and the guidance itself, was current and relevant. Where this was not the case the paper was either updated or archived by the AGS. The contents of the Loss Prevention Guidance were similarly reviewed and updated again in 2022 and this version was published in February 2023.

The Loss Prevention Guidance 2022 is free for AGS members and has a charge of £50 + VAT for non-members. The Loss Prevention Guidance 2022 can be downloaded from the AGS website HERE. If you want to view the contents page for the Loss Prevention Guidance before purchasing, it can be viewed HERE.

Association of Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Specialists

WHY BECOME AN AGS MEMBER?

Enhance your status in the industry. Make a statement about quality and good practice. Participate in the AGS Working Groups and help shape the industry and set the standards.

WHAT DO WE STAND FOR?

■ Good practice in geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering

■ Quality companies providing a quality service

■ Health and Safety

■ AGS Data Format

For further information on the AGS and details on how to become a member visit www.ags.org.uk

Established in 1988, the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists is a not-for-profit trade association which represents over 140 leading companies specialising in site investigation, geotechnics, geoenvironmental engineering, engineering geology, geochemistry, hydrogeology, and other related disciplines.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

■ Guidance to good practice

■ Listing in the Directory of Members

■ AGS Magazine focused on ground engineering ‘hot topics’

■ Legal helpline

■ Chemical safety helpline

■ AGS Loss Prevention Guidance Document

■ Seminars, meetings, conferences and webinars

■ Collaboration with other bodies

■ Liaison with UKAS

■ Lobbying on matters important to the sector

■ Developing and maintaining the AGS Data Format

MEMBERS CAN CONTRIBUTE BY PRODUCING SUCH DOCUMENTS AS:

■ AGS good practice guidance

■ AGS publications

■ AGS safety guidance

■ AGS client guides

MEMBERS CAN PARTICIPATE IN AGS WORKING GROUPS:

■ Laboratories

■ Contaminated Land

■ Safety

■ Business Practice

■ Loss Prevention

■ Data Management

■ Executive Committee

■ Geotechnical

■ Instrumentation and Monitoring