Save money reconfiguring old machinery

With more than 35 years’ professional experience, electrical engineer Russ Prevett of RPEME saves businesses money and adds value by increasing efficiency, functionality and improving reliability to existing equipment. Current projects include installing power factor correction and voltage optimisation – a process that will save clients thousands on their electricity bill. Adding automation of machinery also removes operator error and increases ‘up-time’. Retrofitting ageing control systems on existing equipment – where obsolescence and condition affects reliability but mechanically the machinery is sound – is highly worthwhile. You’re effectively future proofing with such an investment.

“Projects such as these really improve machinery efficiency,” Russ explains. “Reducing running costs, while also identifying where process and production gains can be need. This will enable carers to better balance their caring and work responsibilities, supporting them to remain in employment.

Startling research conducted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission revealed that approximately one in nine mothers either faced dismissal, compulsory redundancy, or were subject to such poor treatment that they felt compelled to quit their jobs.

The Protection from Redundancy Act will extend existing made, using energy more economically today is vital for sustainability in business long term.

“The bottom line is – I will save you money.”

Born and raised in Dorset with an apprenticeship served at Bovington Camp, Russ qualified in 1985 before leaving in 1986 to start work as a marine electrician at Cobbs Quay, Poole.

Within a year, he had begun his international career in the marinas of Southern France. A career where he has travelled the world, working to exacting standards at sea in the marine and oil and gas

EXPERIENCED AND RELIABLE: Electrical engineer Russ Prevett of RPEME industries. With those airmiles also came skills: automation, commissioning, process control, PLC programming – Russ is a true engineer with a love of boats, who still gets asked to solve electrical problems afloat in the harbours and marinas of Dorset. For more information visit rpeme.co.uk or call Russ on 07775 975165 or email rpeme@btinternet. com protections to protect pregnant women and new parents against this discriminatory practice. If you have employment worries, feel free to get in touch. Pharaoh Law’s Director Solicitor, Lisa Pharaoh, BA (Hons) in Decision Making and Law, has over 30 years’ experience in Employment Tribunal and EAT.

By Stuart Wickham stuart@westdorsetmag.co.uk

In their 100th anniversary year, we continue our look back at the history of Bridport Bowling Club, from 1973 to the present day.

Members celebrated the club’s Golden Jubilee with an invitational match against the English Bowling Association, with Bridport losing 125 to 105. At a pre-match luncheon, club President Harry Castle declared that the civic reception and visit of the EBA was the highlight of the celebration and a unique and outstanding event in the history of the club. More plans were mooted regarding the location and possible amalgamation with the newly established indoor club towards the end of the 1980s, and council plans for a new hospital on the site of the club were shelved, when the council realised the difficulty in having to find an alternative site for the club.

In 1992, lady members were finally given the same rights and votes as the men, apparently one of the few equal joint membership clubs in the county at that time. The Ladies’ section of the club began outperforming the men’s section, providing regular teams competing in National Finals at Leamington Spa. Over a ten-year spell from 1985 to 1995 Bridport provided the county with two Lady Presidents in Edna Paisley and Sue