British Airways Engineering Family Day a Success

In September, Sypol took part in British Airways Engineering family day, which helped them to raise over £10,000 for Flying Start, British Airways' charity partnership with Comic Relief.

British Airways Engineering, who use CMS, Sypol's COSHH Management System, welcomed more than 10,000 colleagues, family members, friends and invited guests over the weekend at the end of September.

Sypol were delighted to take part in the weekend activities, and provided giveaways to raise money for the charity, whilst showing its range of health and safety services. There were some really interesting and interactive exhibits that were enjoyed by adults and children alike, and this event was very well organised by British Airways Engineering.

We look forward to taking part again next year.

Sypol engagement

We are pleased to announce that Zoe Rowe, one of our CMS administrators yesterday became engaged to James Barnes, on of our occupational hygiene consultants. We wish them every happiness for the future.

CMS testimonial

Watch our latest video testimonial from Elwyn Harker of Barnet & Chase Farm Hospital, talking about his experiences using CMS from Sypol.

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We are here for you

A great many things are automated these days, bypassing the need for human intervention entirely.
So its comforting to know that when you plug all that information into the CMS 7 software, it goes straight to a real live qualified Sypol consultant who then puts together your COSHH assessment for you.

Here is are some of them. Friendly bunch aren't they?

Not only that, they are on the end of the Helpdesk (01296 380700, or helpdesk@sypol.com) waiting to assist with your queries on the CMS software, or indeed any topic, including their favourite chocolate biscuit - because your consultants certainly love to eat.

So call us for a chat and brighten our day.

Updates to CMS 7 software

You'll be pleased to hear that a number of new items have been added to the CMS 7 management software and these will be active from Thursday 8th July and are shown below:

Printing
You will see additonal printing options. For complete assessments you can now print any of the following:

• COSHH Summary Sheet
• Exposure Scenario
• COSHH Control Sheet

My CMS dashboard
The My CMS summary screen now has a new graph showing the percentage of coshh control sheets completed.

Account settings
You will now be able to add telephone numbers, email address and fax numbers to individual user account settings.

Exposure scenario
A new question is being added to the exposure scenario about whether the material is being used outside of the normal temperature range

If you need help with these or any other changes to your CMS, give the team a call on the helpdesk or email helpdesk@sypol.com.

Getting ready for CLP

The CMS consultants have been getting to grips with hazard classification of substances under the CLP Regulations, and all the delightful new pictograms which will be coming to a product label (and Sypol COSHH assessment) near you from December this year.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/ghs/eureg.htm

Some of the symbols are slightly bizarre and will take a bit of getting used to, but its all in the name of progress.

In this joyful transition period (until June 2015), statements like the one below are cunningly designed to pull you up short on a Monday morning after a heavy weekend following the World Cup:

20th January 2009 – 1st December 2010: Suppliers must classify substances according to CHIP, and may continue to label and package them according to regulations 6 to 11 of CHIP. However they may as an alternative choose to classify, label and package substances according to CLP. In this case, they must in addition continue to classify under regulation 4 of CHIP, but the requirements on labelling and packaging in regulations 6 to 11 of CHIP no longer apply.

Never fear, we have chemists at Sypol who, despite being massive football fans, are not phased by this sort of language, and are happy to explain it in simple terms at half time to anyone who will listen.