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4 U Recruitment Limited Crawler Crane Operators, Mobile Crane Operators, Tower Crane Operators - Trolley Jib - Luffing Jib, Tower Crane Operatotrs - Pedestrian Controlled (Self Erectors), Slinger Signallers, Crane Supervisors, Appointed Persons Lifting Operations
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Options Employment Southern Options Employment Southern LLP is an independent and privately owned specialist recruiter operating from offices in the City of London, Southampton and Haywards Heath.
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MPS Crane Operators
MPS are the leading industry experts when it comes to supplying quality operators, slinger/signallers and Crane Coordinators/Supervisors, Crane operators and all other types of crane personnel.
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MPS are the leading industry experts when it comes to supplying quality operators, slinger/signallers and Crane Coordinators/Supervisors, Crane operators and all other types of crane personnel.
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Falcon Tower CranesFalcon Crane Hire has specialised in the hire and sale of tower cranes, supplying them to sites in the UK
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Blue ArrowBlue Arrow, is one of the UK’s largest recruitment businesses, specialising in the industrial, driving, logistics with a vast network of branches
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Job is JobJobisJob is a search engine for job offers. In one simple search, we will help you to find the most interesting job offers from tens of major job boards,
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One Way Resourcing One Way Resourcing offers a personal service to both our individual clients and our workforce within the construction industry.
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Construction Plant Machinery
OPERCThe Off-highway Plant and Equipment Research Centre (OPERC)
Improved health and safety throughout industry; Higher standards of training, education and competence development; Enhanced business processes leading to higher company profitability and performance; and Dissemination of cutting edge technological innovation and industry best practice.
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Plant and Equipment Professional (PEP) MagazinePlant and Equipment Professional (PEP) brings you the very latest news, in-depth special reports, up and coming events, expert opinions and cutting edge research within the quarrying, plant hire and construction industries.
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Crane Lifting Operations
Cranes Toaday MagazineOnline magazine, the leading resource for news and intelligence for the crane and lifting industries.
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International Crane MagazineKHL Group is now the leading supplier of international construction information in the world.
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High Access Rescue Team (HART) H.A.R.T Technical Line Rescue Unit™ is based in Glasgow. We are the only volunteer urban rescue unit in Scotland, specialising in technical line rescue.
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The Lifting Equipment Engineers AssociationThe Lifting Equipment Engineers Association trade association safe use of lifting equipment.
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Crosby GroupThe Crosby Group was conceived with a long range goal to develop into a single source for accessories used in the lifting and material handling industry
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RUD lifting and lashing systemsRUD sling and lashing systems guarantee safety when lifting and moving loads. Over 340 different innovative tested lifting/lashing points
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Dangerous Goods
National Dangerous Goods Training Consortium The NDGTC is recognised by the DfT, DSA and SQA and consists of 71 nationally distributed training centres
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Hazardous Cargo Bulletin (HCB) Hazardous Cargo Bulletin (HCB) was established in 1980 to help those involved in the transport of dangerous goods to keep up to date with changing regulations.
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Health & Safety
Health and Safety for Beginners Welcome to Health and Safety for Beginners - HSfB. We hope that the information on these pages is of use to you. Please feel free to download and use anything which may help improve your health and safety knowledge for the benefit of us all.
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Help For Heroes
Climb Walk & Abseil The Height of Mt Everest'In support of Help for Heroes'
Ritchies and the High Access Rescue Team attempt a world record in abseiling, but with a twist! the teams will climb 45 metres on a tower cranes vertical ladder, Walking 45 metres on the cranes horizontal jib and then abseiling 45 metres back to the ground and raise funds for Help for Heroes
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The 6 Peaks Challenge“The 6 Peaks Challenge”, is a 3 day continuous abseil from one of the tallest cranes in Glasgow. The Finnieston Crane is located in the heart of Glasgow’s docklands
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Shoe Box Appeal
Bob Doris MSP will be joined by Housing and Communities Minister Alex Neil MSP tol greet Donald Ritchie of Ritchies Training Centre, Glasgow, as he arrives with a HGV vehicle to launch the shoebox appeal. Boxes will be filled with practical items and sent to service personnel in Afghanistan by charity Troopaid. The appeal is being organised by Glasgow-based High Access Resuce Team. Also in attendance will be representatives from Erskine and HART
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Bob Doris MSP will be joined by Housing and Communities Minister Alex Neil MSP tol greet Donald Ritchie of Ritchies Training Centre, Glasgow, as he arrives with a HGV vehicle to launch the shoebox appeal. Boxes will be filled with practical items and sent to service personnel in Afghanistan by charity Troopaid. The appeal is being organised by Glasgow-based High Access Resuce Team. Also in attendance will be representatives from Erskine and HART
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HEROES MagazineHEROES Magazine is the new quarterly magazine from Help for Heroes. HEROES is a glossy 24 page magazine, designed by the BlueBallroom, about the organisations H4H supports and featuring some of the amazing fundraising activities that are going on all over the UK. The magazine also includes interviews with severely wounded Servicemen who have battled their injuries and achieved extraordinary things.
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Resettlement
Quest On-Lineproviding forces leavers and serving personnel with up to date and accurate information on education, resettlement, and recruitment
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Civvey StreetCivvy Street can assist with all your resettlement needs, whether you have left the Armed Forces or planning to leave.
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Demob JobsWe are an established and dedicated recruitment agency helping ex military job seekers to find civilian employment.
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Forces Recruitment ServicesForces Recruitment Services is the original British ex-military recruitment consultancy specialising in finding jobs for UK Armed Forces personnel.
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Conservatives will fight unemployment by helping forces resettlement trainingToday Ruth Davidson, Conservative candidate in the Glasgow North East by-election, was joined by Annabel Goldie MSP, Scottish Conservative Leader, as they visited Ritchies, a company that provides forces resettlement training as well as individual and company training
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Gerry had worked as a HGV driver for many years but was unfortunately made redundant. He had the opportunity to obtain full-time employment with a local coach company, Marbill Coaches, on the proviso that he first passed his PCV (Passenger Carrying Vehicle) license.
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Gerry had worked as a HGV driver for many years but was unfortunately made redundant. He had the opportunity to obtain full-time employment with a local coach company, Marbill Coaches, on the proviso that he first passed his PCV (Passenger Carrying Vehicle) license.
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Transport & Distribution
Transport NewsNews about the broad spectrum of road transportation in the north with particular emphasis on new vehicle developments within companies, plus the people involved in all aspects of the transport industry
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Road Haulage Association (RHA)The Road Haulage Association (RHA) provides dedicated campaigning, advice, information and business services specially tailored for the haulage industry.
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Frieght Transport AssociationFreight Transport Association (FTA) is one of the UK’s largest trade associations and represents the transport interests of companies moving goods by road, rail, sea and air.
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Truck NetNews and discussion for truck and van drivers The TruckNet UK Drivers' Forums are easily the UK's biggest and busiest forums for the professional truck or van driver
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The UK Professional Drivers Association (PDA)The PDA is a stepping stone for a Drivers Professional Development and provides a foot on the ladder to a career in the Transport Industry. We provide specialist knowledge to enable the newly qualified driver to approach his first job with confidence and the ability to cope with most situations.
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Transports Friend website Transports Friend website promotes Road Safety and Operator Compliance. It is an information portal for all involved in Transport. It's not wholly about licenses and trucks, but equally about the many other issues that the industry has to face as an employer, including those other everyday issues relating to Health and Safety and Employment Law.
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Van Drivers Best Practice Guide The Van Best Practice Top Tips guide provides a wealth of succint, easy to implement tips and guidance on a variety of topics
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HGV Training Independent Advice & ResourcesHGV/LGV Training, the UK's leading online resource for commercial driver hgv training. If you want to drive a lorry for a living or develop your skills as an HGV driver, you've come to the right place. This website was created to give you free and unlimited access
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