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Describes training for the CSCS electrical certification scheme health and safety test carried out by UK contractor Grimwood and Dix.

Explains the background to the training, the way in which it is organized and the benefits it has brought.

Reveals that the training has helped to reduce minor accidents at the firm by around 40 percent, improved employee retention and enhanced the company's reputation for professionalism.

Details the significant savings made by carrying out the training in‐house.

Highlights how the UK construction industry in general is placing more emphasis on health and safety and operative competence.

Reveals that Grimwood and Dix has been approved as a test center by the test's awarding body, and so is able to train operatives from other companies.

GEORGE KYNOCH MOST PEOPLE know that ‘ICI’ means Imperial Chemical Industries and that this combine embraces many different industries (such as alkalies, explosives, paints, fibres) including a Metals Division at Birmingham. This was founded in 1862 as a small explosives factory at Witton, three miles from Birmingham. It was managed and later owned by George Kynoch (1834–91) and made percussion caps and cartridges. Caps were originally made to ignite the gunpowder in sporting and other guns, later the whole arrangement of explosive cap, gunpowder or other explosive, bullet or pellets was put together in a paper case called a ‘cartridge’. Later the container was stiffened cardboard for sporting guns and brass for rifles. The ‘solid‐drawn’ (i.e. drawn out from a blank by hammering) brass cartridge case was Kynoch's invention in the 1880's. He made cartridges for the British and all other governments, friendly or otherwise, who cared to buy them and pay for them (like Shaw's Andrew Undershaft). Later, Kynoch allowed his ambition to be a public figure (he was M.P. and Chairman of Aston Villa) to interfere with his devotion to his work as managing director. He was forcibly retired from the company he had founded and died in obscurity.

Outlines the basic development of sexual legislation using case history to show how arbitration can influence a court’s decision. Covers investigation of claims and risk mitigation techniques.

The purpose of this paper is to proffer a reconstructed theoretic model of entrepreneurial generatively that accounts for personal and social identities in the narrative construction of entrepreneurial identity..

The authors followed general analytically structured history processes using the life of Andrew Carnegie to understand how generativity scripts aid in aligning personal and social identities in the formation of entrepreneurial identity.

The authors argue that Carnegie used entrepreneurial generativity as a form of redemptive identity capital during the narrative reconstruction of his entrepreneurial identity.

This paper extends Harvey et al.’s (2011) model of entrepreneurial philanthropy motivation by including forms of self-capital (psychological capital and self-identity capital) as part of the co-construction of entrepreneurial identity and proposing a reconstructed capital theoretic model of entrepreneurial generativity.

Conference presentations, the technical literature and industry debate are focusing increasingly on the requirement for high performance laminates to meet the needs of high signal speeds, reduced dielectric constant, controlled impedance, tighter tolerances and improved dimensional stability.

At Shepparton in the Murray electorate of Victoria in 2007, the Federal Liberal Member, Sharman Stone, announced that under a returned Coalition Government, Shepparton ‘would get a stand‐alone technical college’. One year earlier, the Victorian Minister for Education, Lynn Kosky claimed that ‘We lost something when technical schools [the ‘techs’] were closed previously. Yes, the facilities were not great but we lost something that was important to young people’. This article explores the development and demise of ‘South Tech’, Shepparton South Technical School, 1966‐86 to identify the ‘something’ that Kosky claimed was lost, and to argue that technical education is essential in a reconstituted system.

A resistance element for an electrical strain gauge comprising, a thin elongated element of a substantially uniform mixture of finely divided carbon and silica and a resilient binder having an elasticity similar to that of phenolic resin.

As long ago as 1948, at the Royal Society Conference on Scientific Information, Professor E. N. da C. Andrade was protesting about scientists who write “matter that is unintelligible not on account of its difficulty but on account of the confusion of thought, the lack of sequence and the tangled, sometimes ungrammatical jargon in which it is expressed”. Have our university departments made any attempts to improve the speech? and writing of their students? Most employers complain strongly about the lack of linguistic skill among new graduates.