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BY DERIDRE MASON
MANY health and safety leaflets are going over their targets’ heads because the reading age needed to understand them is too high, delegates at the recent Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents health at work conference at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, heard.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has unveiled for the first time principles that it will apply when deciding whether schemes for the collection and recovery of household packaging waste break EU competition laws.

This follows approval by Brussels of new contracts offered by the French company Eco-Emballages SA and is a clear sign that Brussels would approve similar systems, were they to be introduced in the UK.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
CIGARETTE packets sold in the European Union could be graced with gory medical images designed to shock smokers into quitting, as a result of a compromise deal struck between the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament over the final form of the new European tobacco directive.…

BY KATE REW
BORED by the Vera and Jack Duckworth’s down the local? If so, head for your computer and pay a virtual visit to a pub of your choice: when you ‘see someone you’d like to get to know,’ as the logo says, then ‘click here and get them a beer’.…

BY DEIDRE MASON
SAFEGLASS SAFETY SMASH-BOX GLAZING

PLUSES: Prevents people injuring themselves if they have to break the glass

MINUSES: Could attract vandals no longer afraid of cutting themselves

VERDICT: An innovative product with real benefits for public and emergency services alike

COSTS: Depends on quantity and application but can work out cheaper in cases where toughened glass is used, for instance on buses for window-breaking hammers

Contact: Avril McNeill, Marketing Manager

Safeglass (Europe) Ltd,

Whitworth Building,

Scottish Enterprise technology park,

East Kilbride,

G75 0QD,

Scotland

Tel: +440 (0)1355 272438

e-mail: avril@safeclass.co.uk…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has released an anti-counterfeiting guide, describing the wide range of options that printing companies can take, when trying to protect products and packaging against counterfeiters.

These include overt and covert methods. The global business group’s guide also provides practical advice for companies who need to choose what type of technical protection they need to incorporate within packaging to make them less prone to copying.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INTERNATIONAL Chamber of Commerce has released an anti-counterfeiting guide, describing the wide range of options that companies can take, when trying to protect products and packaging against counterfeiters, especially by using specialist inks and dyes.

These include overt and covert methods, about which the guide gives practical advice to companies as to which to employ in a particular situation.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
International Chamber of Commerce

Anti-Counterfeiting Technology Guide

Pluses: The catalogue is a well-written comprehensive guide, which offers a general overview of technologies. It offers a thorough listing of manufacturing and suppliers of the products.

Minuses: Smaller companies may feel left out because much of the equipment would be better suited for the needs of large brand-owning companies with big budgets.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?

Let me make it easy for you.

Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?

Let me make it easy for you.

Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…