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PRO INSTALLER OCTOBER 2013
PRO BUSINESS
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CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF
SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
This month sees the start of
celebrations for manufacturing
group Rocal, celebrating twenty
successful years in business.
Managing Director,
Stephen Nadin, says
“Twenty years is a
major milestone, and
this is a perfect opportunity to thank all of
our customers, suppliers and staff for their
continued support and
loyalty”.
Based in Brigg, North
Lincolnshire and operating
over a four acre site, Rocal
has grown into one of the
leading manufacturers of
composite doors and UPVC
panels.
A small warehouse back
in 1993 near the centre of
Brigg was where it all began,
manufacturing PVC panels.
In 1995, Rocal was purchased by Jim Longley who
developed the company and
moved its premises to its
current site to accommodate
the company’s expansions
into internal doors, foiling,
extrusions, composite doors
and most recently structural
insulated panels for the holiday home market.
Rocal has never been afraid
to expand its portfolio of
products and services and
planning ahead, 2014 will
see a busy year of new products designs, colours and
styles for its Endurance solid
core composite door range
along with an accompanying
website and brochure.
Rocal SIP’s are soon to
launch a range of garden
rooms, specifically for the
home improvement market.
Contact Rocal:
T: 01652 659259,
[email protected], follow
us on twitter.
Form Filling
For Companies
Ditched
Changes To Reporting
Requirements
Proposals to reduce
burdensome company
filing requirements for
the UK’s 3.2 million
companies, and improve the accuracy of
the information supplied to government,
have been announced
by Business Minister Jo
Swinson.
Changes to the Reporting of Injuries,
Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995
clarify and simplify the reporting
requirements, while ensuring that
the data collected gives an accurate
and useful picture of workplace
incidents.
In a consultation document, government aims to
reduce the amount of information that companies need
to file and the frequency
that it is sent to Companies
House.
Under Company Law,
companies are required to
send in certain details ranging from basic information
such as the address of the
company, through to more
detailed information on the
ownership and financial
position.
A key proposal is the
suggested removal of the
requirement to complete a
mandatory annual return,
the basic details on a company, such as the business
address, type, names of
directors and information
about shareholders and
shares. Every company
submits these and under
the plans they could instead
either digitally confirm each
year that the information
held by Companies House is
simply correct or update it
as and when it changes.
This would cut the time
and money that businesses
spent filing these forms,
especially benefiting small
and medium sized businesses (SMEs) whose details
generally remain the same
but nevertheless have to file
information each year. This
could also help reduce the
amount of fees companies
pay to agents to help them
file this information.
‘reduce the
amount of fees
companies pay
to agents’
The document also asks
whether the return could
still be retained, but better
aligned with the filing
requirements for the annual
accounts.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has formally
implemented changes to simplify the mandatory
reporting of workplace injuries for businesses.
The change affects all employers, including the self-employed. The main changes
are in the following areas:
• The classification of ‘major injuries’ to
workers replaced with a shorter list of
‘specified injuries’
• The existing schedule detailing 47 types
of industrial disease replaced with eight
categories of reportable work-related
illness
• Fewer types of ‘dangerous occurrence’
require reporting
• Accidents to non-workers (members of
the public)
• Accidents resulting in a worker being
unable to perform their normal range of
duties for more than seven days
• How an incident at work is reported and
the criteria that determine whether an
incident should be investigated remain
the same.
Commenting on the impact of the changes, Dave Charnock, HSE policy lead for the
revisions to RIDDOR, explained: “Reporting under RIDDOR is a legal requirement
for companies. The aim is to simplify and
clarify reporting requirements, whilst ensuring that a useful supply of information is
retained, to provide sufficient data for HSE
and others to act in a risk-based manner,
and to enable European and international
obligations to be met.”
There are no significant changes to the
reporting requirements for:
• Fatal accidents
New web-based information and guidance is now available at: http://www.hse.
gov.uk/riddor/index.htm