We are pleased to present the Shipshape Cleaning Employee of the Year award to Carla Tredwell.
Carla has worked with Shipshape Cleaning since the beginning and is a valued employee. Carla manages a team on one of our larger sites and keeps everything working smoothly.
We did the presentation on Thursday night when she came with the office team to Waddesdon Manor for Christmas Dinner.
A great time was had by all, pictures to follow…
We have received our Acceditation Certificate today and are very pleased to announce that we have been successful in joining this leading edge scheme, designed to help industry improve its safety record.
The SAFEcontractor programme recognises very high standards of health & safety practise amongst UK contractors.
Shipshape decided to start working towards achieving this award this summer, due to our ongoing hardwork at Shipshape with health & safety practices and procedures.
We use an external health & safety company to write any health & safety documentation we need, which is reviewed regularly and specific to our contracts. We also commit to full induction training for all our employees and we review staff training on a regular basis.
SAFEcontractor Accreditation is expected to enhance the company’s ability to attract new contracts and its commitment to safety will be viewed positively by its insurers when the company liability policy is up for renewal.
SAFEcontractor is applicable to most sectors although it is particularly relevant to food manufacture, property, facilities management, retail and leisure sectors, all of which are big users of contract services.
Under the SAFEcontractor system, we went through a thorough vetting process, which examined our health & safety procedures and our track record for safe practice.
Having passed this process, we are very pleased to make this announcement.
On visiting the Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre at Kensington Town Hall hosted by Animal Aid on Sunday, one of the causes that particularly horrified us was the Meerkat ‘must have’ pet craze.
Due to the recent popularity of the comparethemarket.com TV commercials, Meerkats are fast becoming the new pet to have in the UK.
(CAPS) The Captive Animals’ Protection Society campaigns against the trade in exotic animals as pets and is leading this campaign to stop meerkats being breed and sold as pets in the UK.
About Meerkats
They are small mammals found only in South African deserts
A highly sociable animal, living in colonies of up to 30 in the wild
They reach maturity at around 1 year of age, and usually remain in their colony into adulthood
Average life span of 12-14 years
CAPS have investigated breeders and dealers in the UK and found very poor conditions, some in small enclosures in petshops and in cages in hallways at private houses. Babies are normally removed early to ensure the female will breed again quickly and at just 5 1/2 weeks old are being sold for £600 each. None of the dealers visited by CAPS were concerned about the purchasers lack of experience in keeping Meerkats and didn’t ask much about how they would be kept. The dealers visited were offering to sell these highly sociable, colony based animals individually.
Many people in zoos and exotic pet trades have spoken out against keeping Meerkats, with reasons such as:
Meerkats and other exotic animals should not be kept as pets.
Go to www.savethemeerkat.com to sign the pledge…..
