NHC Mobility Scooters Featured at Care Show Birmingham 2010 Available at Mobility Masters

The 2010 Care Show Birmingham was recently held in the city’s NEC exhibition centre, making it the largest display of care home products and services in Britain.

A number of leading brands in the care and mobility sector were present at the Care Show Birmingham, held over two days on 10^th and 11^th November, to showcase their products to potential customers and industry professionals.

Along with thousands of brands exhibiting their products, the trade show included a range of seminars, training demonstrations and active debates, covering some of the big issues affecting the care and mobility industry today.

If you’re looking for a great deal on a top quality mobility scooter, from a market-leading brand as showcased at The Care Show Birmingham, then look no further than the extensive range of quality mobility scooters from Mobility Masters.

One of the brand exhibiting at the Care Show Birmingham 2010 was NHC Mobility, and their Zen S11 portable mobility scooter is currently available for a starting price of just £999 at Mobility Masters, available in two colours (blue and salmon) and is the first mobility scooter of its kind to feature true rear wheel suspension, providing a much smoother drive.

Based in the North West, Mobility Masters is a family-run business that has been providing top quality mobility scooters and electric wheelchairs for the last 18 years. NHS credited, and a member of the British Health Association, Mobility Masters supply mobility products from the leading UK manufacturers, offering excellent after-sales support and 12 months’ warranty on all of their products. Mobility Masters also sell a wide range of associated mobility products including scooter accessories & wheelchair accessories and a range of walking aids, including walking frames, rollators and walking sticks.

For more information about Mobility Masters and their wide range of mobility scooters and electric wheelchairs, visit the Mobility Masters website at http://www.electricmobilityscooters.co.uk/.

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Preventing slips on snow and ice

Cold mornings, frost and the possibility of snow all come with UK winter months. Last year we saw parts of the UK come to a standstill when heavy snow fall and ice made roads unsafe to use and pavements too dangerous to set foot on.

When it comes to health & safety whose responsibility is it to reduce the risks brought by snow and ice?

The Approved Code of Practice to the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations, relating to traffic routes and pedestrian walkways, states: -

"Arrangements should be made to minimise risks from snow and ice. This may involve gritting, snow clearing and closure of some routes, particularly outside stairs, ladders and walkways on roofs".

Therefore, organisations should minimise injury from slips on snow and ice by taking the following steps: -

Planning

• identify the external areas of your premises where slippery conditions are most likely to occur for both vehicles and pedestrians, e.g. on path-ways, car parks, access roads, steps, sloped surfaces, unofficial routes regularly used as short-cuts
• monitor local weather forecasts to anticipate poor weather conditions
• keep a stock of gritting material for your premises and suitable equipment to carry out the gritting process
• where staff work out doors, make sure they have suitable footwear to reduce the risk of slipping
• where practicable, prevent access to non-essential areas where there is a higher risk of slipping and designate safer alternative routes for vehicles and pedestrians, e.g. use of barriers, cones and signs
• enforce low speed limits to reduce the risk of vehicles skidding
• provide adequate segregation between vehicles and pedestrians.

Remember, it is important to clear areas of snow and ice leading from external fire exit doors/stairs for people to use safely in an emergency.

Prevention/treatment of icy surfaces

The most common method to prevent external surfaces becoming icy is to apply rock salt early at night before a frost. This technique can be used even at very low temperatures.

Alternatively, snow or ice can be melted by applying rock salt directly after a snow fall or ice formation. However, fresh or compacted snow should be cleared before treating surfaces, in order to enable the rock salt to work most effectively. Ensure the snow removed does not create a risk elsewhere or block drainage channels.

Gritting should not be carried out during heavy rain as this will wash the rock salt away.

Rock salt is not expensive and can be obtained from most builders merchants. Where supplies of rock salt are not available then consider other sources of materials, e.g. grit, table salt.

Citation’s compliance solutions in health & safety and employment law provide SMEs with 24/7 advice and ongoing support to deal with situations like these enabling employers to easily demonstrate they have followed the necessary procedures.

For more information about Citation and the services they provide, visit the Citation website at http://www.citation.co.uk/.

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JMC Managing Director to Compete in 24-Hour Strathpuffer Mountain Bike Race for Help for Heroes

Andrew Burgess, managing director of IT support partner JMC, is preparing to compete in the 2011 Strathpuffer mountain bike race in order to raise money for Help for Heroes.

This extreme 24hr event, held just north of Inverness in Scotland, is open to solo riders, duos and teams of four, and annually attracts around 450 competitors from all over the world.

Andrew is no stranger to the gruelling Strathpuffer circuit, having entered the 2010 race as a duo with another rider. As part of Team JMC Andrew and his partner finished 4th having completed 23 laps of the circuit in just under 24hrs. This year however, Andrew will be taking on the ultimate challenge of racing in the gruelling event as a solo rider, with the target of raising £2,000 for Help for Heroes.

Andrew commented: “Whilst I have a fair amount of experience of racing mountain bikes I have stepped well outside my comfort zone by entering this year’s event solo! Riding for the best part of 24hrs is tough but snow, ice, freezing conditions, a challenging course with lots of climbing and some heart in the mouth descents, plus 17hrs of darkness means this is my toughest event yet. What will keep me going though is knowing that my efforts will raise a substantial amount of money for an awesome charity. All donations are greatly appreciated.”

The sixth annual Strathpuffer race will take place on 15th and 16th January 2011. Andrew has set up a fundraising website for his Strathpuffer race, where donations big or small can be made: http://www.justgiving.com/Team-JMC-Budge/.

For more information about JMC and its services, visit the JMC website at http://www.jmc.co.uk/.

 

JMC IT Support: Pegasus Releases New Opera 3 Solution

Pegasus Software has released its next generation of its key IT solution, Opera.

Opera 3 is the much-anticipated upgrade of the popular Opera II solution, and this new generation of Opera software comes with a whole host of new features and applications.  Opera 3 has a fresh new interface, introducing a “ribbon bar” which has been based on Office 2010, and has brand new icons that help to easily identify application functions.

Other new features of Opera 3 include: upgraded reports to allow direct output to Microsoft Excel; a scheduler application to allow scheduling of tasks and structures; online filing of VAT100 Vat Return to HRMC and a brand new feature Open Period Accounting, which allows posting to prior and future periods within the Nominal Ledger.

The Opera 3 solution from Pegasus is now available. If you’re interested in implementing the new Opera 3 solution for your business, then IT support partners JMC could help.

JMC is one of the largest IT support partners in the North, and a leading Pegasus Strategic Partner. With an annual turnover of over £8million, the average client has worked with them for over 10 years, and 94 per cent of clients would be happy to recommend its services to others.

As you would expect from a company of JMC’s calibre, it possesses a host of industry accreditations including Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with Nine Competencies, Cisco Premier Partner, Citrix Silver Solutions Network Member, Dell Certified Partner, HP systems reseller, and of course, a Pegasus Strategic Partner; JMC has been named Pegasus’ Northern Partner of the Year award for four years running at their Partner Excellence Awards.

JMC work with over 200 companies across the North of England, and ensure that they achieve optimum results from their Pegasus Opera implementations. They do this via a range of services, including annual strategy reviews, client newsletters that highlight important developments in the industry, surveys and questionnaires to monitor client satisfaction and feedback, and regular communications with clients to highlight upcoming promotions and upgrades.

For more information about JMC and the services they provide, call on 0161 925 7777, or visit http://www.jmc.co.uk

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