New Health and Safety Training website launched

To safeguard the welfare of your staff and ensure that your business fully complies with all relevant legislation Capita Symonds provides a full range of Health and Safety training courses - including NEBOSH and IOSH-accredited training. The courses are widely recognised for their quality and practical application.

All our courses have been developed by Martin Barnard, Director of Health and Safety at Capita Symonds. Martin was previously a Principal Construction Specialist Inspector in the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and is recognised as one of the leading authorities on Health and Safety in the UK.

Courses are provided at venues across the UK, or can be delivered in-house within your company.

Our new website, allows you to view our scheduled courses, book online and find out more about our team, presenters and training locations: www.capitasymondstraining.co.uk

Click on the course titles to find out more, and see dates and locations:

• IOSH Safety for Senior Executives
• IOSH Managing Safely
• IOSH Managing Safely in Construction
• CDM 2007: Vital Impact for Designers
• CDM 2007: A Clear and Concise Explanation
• CDM 2007: Designers' Duties
• CDM 2007: A Client's Perspective
• Health and Safety Leadership
• Managing Contractors Safely
• NEBOSH Level 3 Construction Certificate in Health and Safety
• NEBOSH Level 3 General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Why choose Capita Symonds for your health and safety training?

• We have been delivering quality Health and Safety training for over 20 years 
• All courses are developed by Martin Barnard - one of the leading authorities on Health & Safety in the UK. 
• Being part of Capita Symonds - one of the UK's largest property consultancies - we fully understand Health and Safety and it's practical application on a construction site and in the workplace. 
• We deliver our courses at venues across the UK 
• We're accredited to teach IOSH and NEBOSH courses. 
• We can also tailor our training to meet the exact needs of your company or organisation. 
• Our presenters are all recognised Health and Safety experts, with vast industry experience. 
• We're very friendly, so if you want to discuss your training needs, just get in touch! 

Some festive fun - Shootin Sprouts

Capita Symonds presents...................

Shootin' Sprouts! Our fun festive sprout-flinging game.

It's the office Christmas party and you've been served sprouts! Eugh!

Get rid of those evil greens as quickly as possible - using your colleagues as target-practice.

Challenge your friends and try and get to the top of our leader board

Go shoot some sprouts!

My digital world

Kate Nelson, Principal Sustainability Consultant, Talks about her Digital World.

The original article appears on Building Sustainability Design's website

What is your favourite website?

I am hooked on www.etsy.com – its mission is to reconnect makers with buyers and it has a fantastic shop local function which hooks me into all the UK based designers and artists. As someone who works in responsible procurement, I love the idea of buying one-off, handmade items instead of mass produced goods.

What is your favourite gadget?

It isn’t really a gadget but last year I became a mac user and it was love at first drag and drop.

What’s the most useful website you access for your work?

I recently worked out that the best way to get the latest information was to stop subscribing to email newsletters and follow your favourites on twitter instead. It keeps your inbox clear and you can pick and choose what to follow up on. At the moment I am following Ethical Corporation, Building and the UN Climate Change 09 tweeters.

What was the last track you downloaded?

I am all about spotify.com at the moment where you can listen to most albums for free (legally!) but the last download was Useful Chamber by Dirty Projectors.

What was the subject of the last email you received?

Skittles! We are currently building an intranet for our sustainable design lab which will link our designers, architects, engineers, planners and project mangers together in sharing best practice and developing new tools for our projects. We have been inspired by the skittles website which plugs into twitter, flickr and youtube to generate content which means it is by the people for the people.

Social networking or face-to-face?

Hard to say, I am a fair weather friend of facebook but I can see its potential. At this stage I must say a conversation over a pint of ale is my preference.

Who is your favourite blogger?

My favourite blogger at the moment would have to be my friend Charlotte who is on gastro boot camp at the moment in Ireland - http://chopchop-charlotte.blogspot.com

Charlotte works for Sustain and she has helped me be a more ethical eater particularly when it comes to fish.

What’s been the best link you’ve ever been sent?

www.walkit.com – we are based on Victoria and I find I can walk to all my meetings instead of spending time cooped up in taxis and tubes.

What was the last thing you bought online?

A fruit and veg box from Abel and Cole

What was the funniest piece of spam you ever received?

Spammers have become so lazy so I haven’t had a good piece in ages, but I did hear a funny story about spam which involved a major tunnelling project and a filter which automatically deleted emails which included the word 'shaft'.

New website

We've launched our new website!

Have a look at www.capitasymonds.co.uk

It's got lots of nice new features, and all new content - we hope you like it.

We'd love to know what you think - so if you have any comments, email us at website.capitasymonds@capita.co.uk

Capita Symonds works on Take That's stage set

We've worked on some really interesting and varied projects recently.

And they don't get much more exciting than helping to create the stage set for a massive arena tour! We provided structural engineering advice on the stage sets for the Take That's current 'Circus' tour which opened in Sunderland.

Director Malcolm Richards worked closely with set builders Brilliant Stages and artistic designer Mark Fisher.

The action-packed show features jugglers, clowns, trapeze artists, tightrope walkers and drummerboys and a huge red big top tent. The pièce de résistance is a huge silver elephant which carries the boys (or should we call them men now?!) across the stage.

The tour continues with dates in Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and London. See Take That's website for more details.

The team also provided structural engineering advice for AC/DC's 'Black Ice' tour, which has dates in London, Glasgow and Dublin this month.

Find out more:

A full article, including an interview with Malcolm Richards can be found in this week's Building Magazine (issue 23 - 12.06.09)

Links:

• Read more on Building's website (the article mentioned above, minus the interview with Malcolm Richards)
• Look at pictures from the tour on Flickr
• Watch clips of the stage show on YouTube
• Go to Take That's official website
• Got to the Careers in Engineering supplement of The Telegraph - featuring Malcolm Richards, and the AC/DC tour
• See the AC/DC tour dates

Have a look at the elephant in action:

Christmas Countdown

Feeling festive?

To get you into the spirit we've launched the Capita Symonds Christmas Countdown Calendar(that's a mouthfull!). Each day we'll have a handy hint or some festive fun all the way up to the big day itself - so visit daily!

http://www.xmas-countdown.com/

New - Book Health & Safety Training Courses Online

Our Health & Safety Training team, have now launched an online booking form, to make it easier and quicker to sign up for their courses.

Capita Symonds provides many health and safety courses including, IOSH, NEBOSH, CDM 2007, Managing Contractors Safely and Health and Safety leadership.

Find out more about our Health and Safety Training Courses, including courses, dates, venues and presenters.

Capita Symonds Video

If you want to find out more about life in Capita Symonds, our projects, working for us and more, have a look at some of our videos:

Go to our YouTube Channel
See videos on the Capita Symonds website

or watch some of them below:

Capita Symonds at Think 08


Jonathan Goring (our MD) talks about Successful People, Projects and Performance


Rob Firth talks about Capita Architecture


Working at Capita Symonds


Working at Capita Architecture


Wales Millennium Centre - Cardiff


Regeneration and Communities

WORKS digital launches

Today we've officially launched WORKS digital on our website.

It's an online guide to Capita Symonds - who we are, what we do and where we are across the UK. It's really easy to use and tells you all about the vast array of services we provide.

Have a look and let us know what you think! www.capitasymonds.co.uk/works