�HSE notified bidders for the modern gas installer registration scheme that it is award the undertake to Capita Group Plc (CAPITA). The contract, which is valued at �14 million per annum, is awarded for a term of ten-spot years and will be signed on 8th September 2008.
The new system will strengthen and ameliorate the administration and performance management arrangements between HSE and the new scheme provider. CAPITA will have got incentives to continuously better gas guard and services to gas consumers and installers and be held to account through a challenging set of key performance indicators. CAPITA will be needed to innovate and boost a new independent blade which will provide an excellent opportunity to elevate gas safety messages.
The new gas installer registration scheme will run from the first of April 2009 and will supersede a strategy currently being operated by CORGI.
Notes
1. HSE is responsible for regulating domestic gas safety in GB and does this largely through the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998.
2. At present, CORGI (Council of Registered Gas Installers) is approved by HSE to undertake this task. It maintains an up-to-date register of gas installers world Health Organization are restricted to instal or furbish up gas fittings and appliances.
3. The fresh scheme takes forward recommendations arising from the HSE's review of the domestic gas safety regime and the views expressed by stakeholders. Oversight of the new regime will remain with the HSE. Further details of these recommendations can be found here.
4. On eighteenth June 2008 HSE announced CAPITA as its preferred bidder in the competition to provide a new gas installer registration dodge in Great Britain. hypertext transfer protocol://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2008/e08031.htm
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Friday 5 September 2008
Saturday 16 August 2008
Illness Cost Of Air Pollution Underscores Need For Lung Health Action Plan: The Lung Association
�The National Illness Cost of Air Pollution (ICAP) study, released by the Canadian Medical Association, is clear grounds that action is required on breeze pollution and that a national strategy for lung health is needed now more than ever. The study measures the national health and economic impact of air pollution and puts a dollar figure on the health tending related costs of zephyr pollution in Canada. The national subject includes ICAP software models for ten provinces and estimates of health restitution at the national level.
"Air pollution is a very real threat to the health and upbeat of Canadians of all ages," said Kenneth Maybee, Chair of Environmental Issues, The Lung Association, "The data from the ICAP study is clear: we need concrete and real action on air pollution and a national action plan on lung health, if we are to stem the thousands of deaths that occur annually as a direct outcome of both short and long-term vulnerability to pollutants".
The study found that:
- In 2008, 21,000 Canadians will die from the personal effects of aura pollution, a figure sticking out to rise to 710,000 by 2031;
- Respiratory illness accounted for nearly 40% of infirmary admissions associated with photograph to air pollution;
- Respiratory diseases account for some 40% of the 92,000 emergency department visits in 2008 linked to air pollution - a figure projecting to rear to 152,000 by 2031;
- Over 20 1000000 minor illnesses will be attributed to air pollution in 2008 and that number testament climb to over 26 million by 2031;
- Approximately 45% of minor illnesses will want restricted activity or asthma attack symptom years potentially resulting in absenteeism from work or school. This supports findings released in May 2008 by The Lung Association that found that 62 per cent of Canadians with asthma say their asthma "acts up" on days when breeze quality is poor.
"The ICAP study is a valuable prick to wellness organizations and public policy makers as we locomote forward on building a healthier surroundings for Canadians," said Nora Sobolov, President and CEO of The Lung Association, "The ICAP study re-enforces the very real pauperism for a strategy that deals with both environmental impacts and their health outcomes.
The Lung Association, the union government and stakeholders countrywide, are nearing the windup of a national action plan that will better the lung health of Canadians. The study will be particularly valuable as a resource tool in ensuring that the Framework is responsive to the one in five Canadians suffering from respiratory diseases, and the environmental personal effects that english hawthorn exacerbate them.
The National Lung Health Framework is an ambitious plan that will lower rates of lung disease and sporty up the air Canadians breathe through strong environmental action and policies, treatment and diagnosis programs and cutting edge research to position Canada as a world leader in the fight against lung disease. The ICAP study is additional evidence demonstrating why action on the surround - and lung health - is so critical to the health of Canadians.
Established in 1900, The Lung Association is one of Canada's oldest and almost respected health charities, and the in the lead national organization for science-based information, research, education, supporting programs and advocacy on lung heath issues.
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"Air pollution is a very real threat to the health and upbeat of Canadians of all ages," said Kenneth Maybee, Chair of Environmental Issues, The Lung Association, "The data from the ICAP study is clear: we need concrete and real action on air pollution and a national action plan on lung health, if we are to stem the thousands of deaths that occur annually as a direct outcome of both short and long-term vulnerability to pollutants".
The study found that:
- In 2008, 21,000 Canadians will die from the personal effects of aura pollution, a figure sticking out to rise to 710,000 by 2031;
- Respiratory illness accounted for nearly 40% of infirmary admissions associated with photograph to air pollution;
- Respiratory diseases account for some 40% of the 92,000 emergency department visits in 2008 linked to air pollution - a figure projecting to rear to 152,000 by 2031;
- Over 20 1000000 minor illnesses will be attributed to air pollution in 2008 and that number testament climb to over 26 million by 2031;
- Approximately 45% of minor illnesses will want restricted activity or asthma attack symptom years potentially resulting in absenteeism from work or school. This supports findings released in May 2008 by The Lung Association that found that 62 per cent of Canadians with asthma say their asthma "acts up" on days when breeze quality is poor.
"The ICAP study is a valuable prick to wellness organizations and public policy makers as we locomote forward on building a healthier surroundings for Canadians," said Nora Sobolov, President and CEO of The Lung Association, "The ICAP study re-enforces the very real pauperism for a strategy that deals with both environmental impacts and their health outcomes.
The Lung Association, the union government and stakeholders countrywide, are nearing the windup of a national action plan that will better the lung health of Canadians. The study will be particularly valuable as a resource tool in ensuring that the Framework is responsive to the one in five Canadians suffering from respiratory diseases, and the environmental personal effects that english hawthorn exacerbate them.
The National Lung Health Framework is an ambitious plan that will lower rates of lung disease and sporty up the air Canadians breathe through strong environmental action and policies, treatment and diagnosis programs and cutting edge research to position Canada as a world leader in the fight against lung disease. The ICAP study is additional evidence demonstrating why action on the surround - and lung health - is so critical to the health of Canadians.
Established in 1900, The Lung Association is one of Canada's oldest and almost respected health charities, and the in the lead national organization for science-based information, research, education, supporting programs and advocacy on lung heath issues.
The Lung Association
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Monday 30 June 2008
Darlington
Artist: Darlington
Genre(s):
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
Moron-A-Thon
Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Louder Than Morrissey
Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Originally forming under the cognomen of Mess, The Darlingtons formed in 1995 as they debuted their sugar coated Ramones punk to their home town of Dallas, Texas. Following deuce age, a 1996 EP and a close case, Christy Brigitte Darlington (vocals/ guitar), Stevey Stress (drums) and Angel Eek (basso) changed the distinguish of their stria exactly in time for their 1998 full-length Girltroversy on Last Beat Records. Melted Records signed the tercet slice the following year and contributed to the release of their second album Muss You Up in 1999. Early 2000 sawing machine a split uncut with The Huntingtons which was released by Melted. After going 2 years without a wide-cut length release, Louder Than Morrissey appeared on Stardumb in the summer of 2002.
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Arkady Shilkloper
Artist: Arkady Shilkloper
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Presente para Moscou
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Hornology
Year: 1996
Tracks: 7
Sunday 15 June 2008
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Michael Stipe - Stipe Still Cant Listen To Nirvana After Cobain Tragedy
R.E.M. star MICHAEL STIPE can no longer listen to an entire NIRVANA album because remembering the death of his friend KURT COBAIN is still too painful.
The rocker admits to being a huge fan of the Smells Like Teen Spirit hitmakers, and regrets he hasn't been able to listen to classic albums like Nevermind and In Utero since Cobain killed himself in 1994.
He says, "The great tragedy of his death is that, as an artist, as someone pushing things forward, he was really pushing himself.
"He had reached a point where he was about to push through to something that was so phenomenal and so beautiful.
"It was all written, it was all right there and it was so obvious where he was going, and then he didn't make it.
"I still have trouble... I can't listen to an entire Nirvana record."
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