Bradley Environmental Consultants are delighted to announce that due to the continued success of ourVACANCY Fleet Admin company, coupled with the benefits offered by the Government funded Apprenticeship Scheme, a vacancy has arisen for a Fleet Administrator Apprentice  at our Head Office in Halesowen.

The role is based on a 40-hour week and the starting wage will be £7.00 per hour, with an equivalent salary of £14,560.00 pa. This salary will be reviewed, based on performance, at 3-month intervals with a view to achieving an hourly rate of at least £12.00 per hour before the 18-month apprenticeship is complete.

The role will focus on being coached and trained by our existing Fleet Manager within a busy, fast paced and reactive environment. Our business turns over more than £12 million pa and has over 80 vehicles on fleet.

This exciting opportunity, which will run alongside a Level 3 Business Administration qualification, will allow the candidate to work closely with our existing Fleet Manager, ensuring that our vehicles are maintained effectively and remain roadworthy.

Full training will be provided for all aspects of the role.

The position will mainly entail providing Fleet Support to our drivers, with guidance and coaching from our Fleet Manager, including:

  • Providing vehicle-related support, via phone and e-mail, to our drivers throughout the UK;
  • Day-to-day bookings for MOTs, services and repairs etc;
  • Processing of parking, speeding, and penalty fines
  • Coordinating the delivery of new vehicles at each of our offices;
  • Ensuring that the appropriate vehicle safety checks are carried out by our drivers, and that they are recorded correctly;
  • Organising vehicle rentals, including car-hire when staff are working abroad;
  • Providing support to the Fleet Manager where our vehicles are involved in road traffic accidents;
  • Guidance, coaching and experience of how to negotiate with lease providers and garages, with respect to the costs of repair and maintenance etc;

Our company has a successful track record in recruiting, supporting, and developing apprentices, and in honour of the recent National Apprenticeship Week, we spoke with Naseem, our IT Support Officer, who recently completed his apprenticeship and is now qualified as a Level 3 ICT Support Technician. Since completing his apprenticeship, Naseem has become a full-time employee within our company and is now an essential part of our busy IT Support Team.

Naseem gave us an insight into why he chose to carry out an Apprenticeship as part of his further education:

“I decided to go with an apprenticeship as I prefer hands-on learning and being in the workplace gave me that experience. The staff have welcomed me into the company and my supervisor has helped me a lot during my course by allocating me enough time to do course work. My line manager was also very approachable when I had questions and by running through different scenarios and outcomes, gave me a greater understanding, which benefited my development.

Personally, for me, it was better to apply for an apprenticeship than go to university, because I learnt from the experience and by being in the middle of the workplace environment. So, if you’re a person who prefers the hands-on approach for learning, I would recommend an apprenticeship.”

An apprenticeship includes:

  • Paid employment with paid annual leave;
  • Hands-on experience in the sector/role of interest;
  • At least 20% (8 hours a week) of off-the-job training;
  • Formal assessment, which leads to a nationally recognised qualification;

More information regarding the Apprenticeship Fleet Administrator and application for the position is available at www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk

For all other vacancies, please click vacancies to kick start your career with Bradley Environmental Consultants Ltd.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced that it will be visiting a range of businesses and organisations to check how asbestos is managed, ensuring that those responsible for managing asbestos have the correct arrangements in place.

The latest HSE campaign Asbestos: Your Duty launched on 15th January 2024, and will target thoseHSE Your Duty graphicresponsible for managing asbestos in buildings, improve understanding and emphasises the legal duty to manage. 

The legal duty to manage asbestos includes a range of buildings such as workplaces like offices and factories, as well as museums, schools, hospitals, and places of worship,

The legal responsibility of managing asbestos typically falls to the 'duty holder'. The role of duty holders must be identified within your organisation, but typically is the person who is the building owner, business owner, the landlord of the premises or the persons/organisation with responsibility for the building’s maintenance or repair.

The 'duty holder' must protect people from the risks of exposure to asbestos. This includes people who:

  • Work in their buildings
  • Use them in other ways

The aim of this campaign is to highlight to those with the responsibility for all workplace buildings, to do everything they must to comply to the law (The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012) and prevent exposure to this dangerous substance, which has been completely banned since 1999, however for many buildings in the UK that were built or refurbished before 2000, they may still contain the dangerous material and the necessary checks and inspections must be carried out.

Sarah Albon, HSE’s chief executive said: “To keep people safe from the harms of asbestos, a culture of safely managing asbestos is needed in our building industry and among those responsible for buildings.

“Asbestos exposure in the United Kingdom is still the single greatest cause of work-related deaths due to exposures decades ago. Together, we must product people in the workplace and reduce future work-related ill health.”

Schools Compliance AuditsAn Asbestos Compliance Audit is an assessment of an organisations documentation, procedures and policies to ensure that the management plan is compliant with the current Control of Asbestos regulations.

For a limited time, Bradley Environmental Consultants will be offering an in-person Asbestos Compliance Audit to all education buildings in the Manchester area, these will be provided at no cost to the client. 

Asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) were used extensively in the construction of schools and other public buildings from the 1950s until the use of asbestos in the UK was completely banned in 1999. When asbestos is in good condition, it poses no significant health risks, the danger arises when materials are disturbed and asbestos fibres are released that it can become cause of life-threatening illnesses, such as mesothelioma. Many school buildings constructed or refurbished during this period still contain a significant amount of ACMs.

The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 includes the duty to manage asbestos in non-domestic premises, including buildings within the education sector. The responsibility falls to the duty holder, in many cases, this is the person that has clear responsibility for the maintenance or repair of the premises.

How does it work?

The free audits will be carried out by our Qualified Asbestos Consultants, during an in-person site meeting and walkabout, or alternatively we can also offer an online meeting via TEAMS etc.

During the meeting, the asbestos consultant will go through a bespoke compliance questionnaire, so they can begin to understand the school’s level of compliances to identify successes and areas where improvements can be made.

What will you receive?

Following completion of the audit, a written report will be provided to the duty holder highlighting the asbestos consultant’s findings and recommendations. This report will detail where the schools is compliant and where improvements can be made to achieve full compliance.

To take advantage of this limited time offer, please contact us today to speak with our This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to arrange your free audit.  

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Dust 2HSE Inspectors are visiting manufacturing businesses throughout England, Scotland and Wales to monitor that employers and their workers have measures in place to prevent exposure to materials containing silica.

Exposure to respirable crystalline silica (RCS), commonly known as silica, can cause irreversible lung diseases when breathed in over time. Inspectors will be checking that workers’ lung health is being protected. They will look for evidence of employers and workers knowing the risks, planning their work, and using the right controls.

The Bibby Stockholm is one of the new forms of asylum Bibby Stockhold Bargeseeker accommodations the government are using to cut the costs of hotels, now ministers are facing questions about when tests were carried out, who knew what  and when, after asylum seekers are removed from the barge in Dorset after the vessel’s water system was found to contain Legionella bacteria. It is unclear where they have been moved to, but the Home Office has confirmed all 39 migrants on board disembarked on Friday 11th August as a ‘precautionary measure’.

Legionella bacteria commonly found in water, can cause a serious type of lung infection known as Legionnaires’ disease, outbreaks occur from purpose-built water systems where temperatures are warm enough to encourage growth of the bacteria.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick is understood to be chairing meetings about the situation and has said that none of those on the barge have shown signs of having the disease and are all being provided with “appropriate advice and support”.

Charities of 2023 announcement

Bradley Environmental Consultants are pleased to announce that they have partnered up with two local foodbanks to offer support in 2023.

Staff members and the management team have chosen the Batley Food Bank, which is local to the Wakefield Office and The Black Country Food Bank which is local to the head office in Halesowen.

Batley Food Bank, which was established in 2013, has helped 1000’s of people in need, by providing people of Batley and surrounding areas with 7-day food parcels, which can be collected from the centre or special arrangements for delivery can be made to those who are unable to visit the food bank.

The Black Country Food Bank was established in 2006 and helps vulnerable individuals and families in crisis through the provision of emergency food and toiletries supplies, while a longer-term solution is developed.

Both foodbanks have provided us with shopping lists of suitable goods that the staff can donate into collection boxes provided at each office, as well as QR codes and money collection pots to collect donations from staff and visitors.

Hot Topic EventsComing in 2023, Bradley Environmental Consultants will be running a series of half day sessions across the country aimed to provide clients with information surrounding asbestos management.

ASBESTOS MANAGEMENT AND PLANS
This half day event aims to clarify some of the responsibilities that clients have with regards to their asbestos management requirements. Many clients commission survey reports without support on what to do next, this session will aim to answer some of those questions.

SURVEY REPORTS - SPECIFICATION & UNDERSTANDING
As such an essential part of your asbestos management toolkit it might seem obvious how this is dealt with. This session aims to further develop knowledge and understanding to further empower you as an end user of asbestos surveys. We will also look at some of the pitfalls and “dark arts” employed on occasion to generate work.

ASBESTOS REMOVAL – THE ROLE OF THE ANALYST
This session aims to clarify some of the ambiguity surrounding asbestos removal as well as provide clients with a “deep dive” into the role of the analyst during remedial works.

asbestos caution smallFollowing a reported concern regarding unsafe construction work, a former department store was found to have disturbed asbestos containing materials (ACMs) while demolition work was in progress, resulting in two former company directors being sentenced and fined.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) was undertaken, following a report regarding unsafe construction work at the former Joplings department store. The age of the building and previous refurbishment work meant that there were vast amounts of ACMs inside the building. Several months of demolition and refurbishment work, where ACMs had been broken up using brute force and sledgehammers, resulted in asbestos fibres being spread across 5 floors of the building as well as outside of the city centre property.

SchoolOf the 33,600 schools in Britain, more than 75 per cent contain asbestos. Due to this worrying statistic, the HSE will be carrying out a programme of inspections to primary and secondary schools in England, Scotland and Wales from September 2022 onwards.

The inspections will be assessing how schools are managing the risks from asbestos and meeting the ‘duty to manage’ (DTM) requirements under Regulation 4 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (CAR). The regulations place duties on those with responsibility for the maintenance of work premises, including schools, to manage the risk from asbestos. For the majority of schools, this will be the employer.

asbestos caution smallA Company Director and his two engineering firms have been sentenced for failing to manage the risk from asbestos to employees within the workplace.

During a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspection in 2019, it was discovered that a large quantity of asbestos containing materials (ACM’s), including insulating board, were present at the factory premises in Kidderminster, owned by Kespar Engineering Limited.

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