Tim Goodson joins Lewis-Manning Hospice Care as a Trustee to the Board

FOCUS ON protection

with Tower Supplies

Five dates for your diary in 2023

I know you are focused on protection every day. But awareness days and national days are a fantastic way to shine the spotlight on specific areas of safety. They get everyone talking about a topic, driving innovation, and opening discussions about making things even safer and better. Tower is focusing on these dates this year: • 6-12 February – Tinnitus Awareness

Week. We’re teaming up with the British

Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) to explain ‘Listen Today, Hear Tomorrow!’, explaining why hearing protection now has the highest classification level of PPE. • 7-13 March – National Feet Week.

The right foot protection can limit musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), which account for 24% of lost working days. Tower’s footwear clinics ensure the right footwear and complementary insole is matched to the wearer’s foot. • 3-9 May – Sun Awareness Week. Many

PPE wearers work outside all day long. But did you know there is an EN standard for

UV protection (EN 13758-2)? Workwear that meets the UPF 40+ rating ensures only 1/40 of UV radiation reaches the skin. • 23 June – Women in Engineering Day.

Tower has a range of ladies’ PPE. To be effective, PPE must fit right and not hamper the wearer when going about their job. On this day, we’ll draw attention to the growing options within female-specific PPE. • 1 August – World Lung Cancer Day. I’m specially trained in the fitting of respirators, and Tower supports ‘Clean Air? Take

Care!’, a joint BSIF and HSE initiative to reduce occupational respiratory disease.

This day will highlight the need to avoid your workforce suffering illness. Some honourable mentions for 2023: 7 April – World Healthy Day / 5 May – World Hand Hygiene Day / 15 October – Global Handwashing Day / 14-20 November – Road Safety Week.

If you plan to use an awareness day or week to support safety at work, then I can help you do it. Mark Dowling Divisional Managing Director 01202 305518 mark.dowling@towersupplies.com wearetower.com

Bournemouth & Poole College event launches Dorset’s Green Skills Hub

Bournemouth & Poole College has officially launched the Dorset Green Skills Hub, a joint partnership initiative with Weymouth College and Skills & Learning Adult Community Education, to drive sustainability across Dorset.

More than £800,000 in government funding has been awarded to Bournemouth & Poole College to deliver free marine and automotive short training courses using cutting-edge equipment. The courses will introduce technicians to electric vehicle and boat engine technologies to ensure that these thriving sectors have the skills to facilitate the growth locally in sustainable, climate-friendly green technologies.

Skills & Learning Adult Community Education will create introductory routes to prime adults to join the green-skilled workforce needed in the future, while the benefit spreads across Dorset with Weymouth College launching a separate project strand.

Phil Sayles, principal at Bournemouth and Poole College, says: “We are delighted to launch the Dorset Green Skills Hub as it is set to deliver one of the key recommendations of the Green Jobs Taskforce, which is ‘no worker should be left behind by the training system.’

“These are essential skills for the rest of this decade and beyond. The project will allow companies’ engineers and technicians to engage and experiment with these new technologies and help them prepare for the future. These technologies will drive environmental benefits and the economy, and we need to ensure that local people have the skills to use them and will reap the rewards from this work.”

The first series of free one- or twoday courses will run until March 31 2023, and individuals following the automotive course route can achieve a Level 3 Award in electric and hybrid vehicle system repair and replacement. On completion, students will receive a license to work on electric cars. Marine engineers and electricians undertaking the College’s British Marinevalidated marine course in its renowned Marine Engineering Centre will gain a license to work on electric boat engines. www.thecollege.co.uk

Tim Goodson joins Lewis-Manning Hospice Care as a Trustee to the Board

Tim Goodson has joined Lewis-Manning Hospice Care as a Trustee to the Board.

CEO Clare Gallie said, “It is an incredible honour to have Tim join us and we are so pleased that he has chosen our charity to come to as a volunteer and sit on the board. He has a vast depth of knowledge and experience in the healthcare sector in Dorset, working with the commissioning bodies and local GP’s. We feel that his guidance and support will be invaluable to our delivery of exceptional hospice care in our community, for years to come.”

Tim advised, “I am really looking forward to working with Lewis-Manning, it’s such a great charity and a very worthy cause, which touches on all of us in some way or another. The hospice provides such invaluable support and comfort at difficult times in peoples’ lives. I’m hoping that I can bring my experience to the table and further the services that it provides.”

Tim has a wealth of experience in the healthcare sector. He is an experienced NHS Board Member, System Leader, Company Director and qualified CCAB Accountant, with a proven track record of supporting and advising Boards. He has led a transformational clinical service review attracting capital investment, was accountable for £1.6bn health delivery budget. He is a respected Chief Executive Officer and Director of Finance and is currently Executive Officer at the Dorset GP Alliance, having been CEO at Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group for 9 years and System leader at Dorset Integrated Care System for 4 years. www.lewis-manning.org.uk