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Hygiene relevant to vegetarian businesses

Sudan 1 - A Food Alert!

HACCP - No longer a choice

Driving at work - the forgotten safety issue

Employers afraid of heights

Information, instruction & training

Intermediate Food Safety
E-learning CD

Office Health and Safety E-learning Induction CD

Question of Health & Safety

Competition

Highfield House of Horrors safety quiz

Thankyou to all those who participated in the December competition. The lucky winner, David Wickham, hygiene manager at RF Brookes, has received the CD-ROM of his choice. Click Here to view the winning entry.

Following the success of the competition we shall be running it again.


Win a Highfield training pack CD-ROM worth up to £475

The lucky winner will have the choice of any one of our PowerPoint Training CD-ROMs (Food Safety, Health & Safety or HACCP) at any level. This prize is worth up to £475.

Highfield's famous is ready for expansion. We would like you to send us your most terrible photographs for us to publish on our website, in our newsletters and use in our training packs. Anything to do with health & safety or food safety may be used.

For every photograph we use, we will award the sender a £20 Highfield voucher. From all entries we will choose a STAR photo. This will be awarded the FREE PowerPoint.

The closing date for this season's House of Horrors entries is 1st July 2005

Please send your photos by e-mail to: houseofhorrors@highfield.co.uk

Our April seminar was our most successful yet. Unfortunately many customers missed out due to our having only 250 places.

The good news is that we are now running another HACCP Seminar in the autumn in London. We expect this to be equally as popular so please call us soon for details.

Click Here to view the papers presented at Highfield's HACCP 2006 Seminar on 25th April 2005.

Hygiene issues are very relevant to vegetarian food businesses
Many vegetarians believe that food poisoning could not possibly be an issue in their businesses. However, food poisoning is not just associated with meat and meat products. A hygiene guide, relevant to owners of vegetarian food businesses and their employees, has been issued by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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Sudan 1 - A Food Alert!
To date, 580 food products have been identified as containing the dye Sudan 1. Why did the Food Standards Agency issue a Food Alert and require all food companies including manufacturers, retailers and caterers, to withdraw from sale food products containing Sudan 1?

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HACCP - No longer a choice
Under Regulation EC No. 852/2004 on the Hygiene of Foodstuffs, all food businesses will be required to put in place, implement and maintain a permanent procedure or procedures based on HACCP principles. This will be a legal requirement from 1st January 2006.

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Driving at work - the forgotten safety issue

Our article last time examined the issue of workplace transport and how many employers failed to adequately manage transport issues on their premises. This month we examine the poor relation of workplace transport - road driving in cars and light vans.

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Employers afraid of heights

Employers have been hanging around for many months waiting for the new Work at Height Regulations to come into force. With the latest news suggesting an April implementation, many employers are concerned about their impact on work at height. However, David Amess argues that for employers who take a risk-based approach to health & safety there should be little cause for concern.

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Information, instruction & training: is there any value in it?

In the second of three articles, we examine how to ensure that the information, instruction & training provided to employees are relevant and comprehensible, and how to ensure that it is meeting the need that exists.

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At Highfield we pride ourselves on having the best quality products available in the marketplace. As we design the majority of our products completely in-house, we are able to offer these at outstanding value.

This year is very exciting in terms of product development and this section will give you the opportunity to review our latest products.

Intermediate Food Safety E-learning CD-ROM Launched

After a year of development Highfield are proud to announce the Intermediate Food Hygiene E-learning CD ROM. Following on from the highly successful Food Safety Foundation CD-ROM, our new intermediate follows the same tried and tested style of learning, and makes Intermediate Level 2 qualifications more accessible than ever before.

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Office Health and Safety E-learning Induction CD

Following our e-learning success we are developing a 30-minute course specifically for office health & safety, including DSE assessment option.

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A Question of Health & Safety

Test the effectiveness of training with this knowledge assessment book, packed with entertaining and challenging exercises and questions for staff to complete. Provides a record of training

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