Milton Keynes Health & Safety Group (MKHSG)
Welcome to the Milton Keynes Health and Safety Group website.
Our Objectives
We are a group of safety advisors and employers' representatives promoting mutual help and guidance in all matters of Health and Safety at Work in Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas.
Affiliation
The MKHSG is an independent group affiliated to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), and a member of the National Health & Safety Groups Council.
History
The group was first formed in 1975 from a nucleus of Safety Officers attending the Milton Keynes Development Corporation (MKDC) Contractors Safety Group with interests additional to those of construction safety. Initially it also incorporated members of the local Fire Prevention Liaison Panel - long since disbanded.
The impetus for safety advice and assistance for companies arose from the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act in 1974. Many local representatives welcomed the introduction of the new group and it was strongly supported in its early years by the MKDC Safety Officer and support staff.
The majority of the club funds arose from a joint Fire and Safety exhibition in Middleton Hall ( Central Milton Keynes ) in 1978. In those early days before the advent of PCs, CD-ROM and the Internet the group played an important part in local liaison and provision of information for Safety Officers with advice readily available from a member 'expert' from the group. It was also customary then to borrow and/or loan more specialist items of equipment ( eg. Draeger tubes, sound level meters, safety films etc) not generally in widespread use in many companies. This custom continues to this day but with a different range of items including computer-training packages, training videos,etc.
Membership
Membership of the group is open to all industrial and commercial firms, the self employed and to other interested bodies and persons within Milton Keynes and the surrounding areas.
Honorary members
The Executive committee may elect any person or organisation to be Honorary Members without subscription.
Subscriptions
The annual subscription is £10.00 per membership payable on the 1st January each year. (An Organisation may therefore become a member and have any number of representatives attend the groups meetings, but will receive only one correspondence.)
The annual subscription fee shall be determined and agreed at the groups AGM.
Meetings
The group endeavours to hold quarterly meetings throughout the year at host member companies' premises. Typically meetings are held in March, June, September and December.
Annual General Meeting
The group's AGM is held in the June meeting each year.
Officers
MKHSG has the following officers:
| Chairman | - Mr Mike Stimson |
| Vice Chairman | - Mr Jim Stafferton |
| Treasurer | - Mr Richard Alton |
| Minutes Secretary | - Mr Ashley Goodman |
| Programme Secretary | - Mrs Jocelyn Grant |
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