XIC brings the North-east’s largest health and safety expo to P&J Live

XIC is bringing the North-east’s only dedicated QHSE event, The Safety Expo, to P&J Live on September 21, 2023.

Open to everyone the expo is free to attend and aims to highlight local businesses’ immense talent for health and safety products and services.

Showcasing training providers, workwear and PPE suppliers, equipment demonstrations and safety literature specialists all under one roof, the event provides the ideal opportunity for attendees to network with exhibitors and discover innovative solutions that align with their operations.

An ambitious action plan to make Aberdeen a Living Wage City, launched in November 2022 by the Aberdeen Living Wage Action Group, has seen early progress in growing the number of accredited Living Wage employers in the city.

The Action Group is a collaboration of employers and stakeholders from across the public, private and third sectors, on behalf of Community Planning Aberdeen.

There are now more than 80 accredited employers committed to voluntarily paying staff the real Living Wage in Aberdeen, including recently accredited Grampian Fasteners and bspoq. The Action Group hope this activity will encourage more employers to join the movement.

However, around 10,000 workers in Aberdeen City still earn less than a real Living Wage and around 5,500 children in the city live in poverty. While the economy of Aberdeen has prospered, there are large numbers of the population who have never benefited directly from this prosperity but instead continue to be negatively impacted by the high cost of living.

Peterhead Port Authority (PPA) has embarked on a major piece of work to help it best embrace the opportunities presented by the energy transition.

With climate change driving policy change in general, and the drive to net zero in Scotland by 2045 in particular, the PPA Board and senior management want to better understand how Peterhead can be scaled up to function more efficiently as a multi-sector port.

The study, by experts at Royal HaskoningDHV, has been commissioned by PPA in conjunction with ScottishEnterprise and is supported by port-based companies ASCO and NorSea, as well as key stakeholder Storegga.

“There are a great many opportunities arising from sectors such as offshore wind, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, alternative fuels and decommissioning,” says Keith Mackie, PPA Head of Business Development – Energy Transition.

“This study, done in collaboration with our key stakeholders, will allow us to take best advantage of these new areas while continuing to support our existing oil and gas and fisheries activities.”

The joint review follows on from an earlier study commissioned by ASCO, the global integrated logistics and materials management company which operates and owns South Base terminal at Peterhead.