December 2008

New Safeguard Client: International Paint (AkzoNobel)

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New Safeguard Client: International Paint (AkzoNobel) International Paint is one of the worldwide market leaders in Marine, Protective, Yacht and Aerospace paint and has operations in 54 countries worldwide and over 6000 employees and is a part of the global organisation of AkzoNobel. Rivo’s Safety, Health and Environmental software system, Safeguard, will be implemented worldwide in numerous languages to give International Paint control and visibility of all accidents and incidents.


October 2008

The University of Leeds wins prestigious SHP IOSH Award

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The University of Leeds wins prestigious SHP IOSH Award Rivo, sponsors of the SHP IOSH Awards, are pleased to congratulate its client, the University of Leeds, on winning the award for best achievement in local authorities and education. The annual SHP IOSH Awards provide a platform to promote best practice and excellence in the Safety, Health & Environmental sectors. The University embarked on a bold campaign to embed Health and Safety at the heart of its strategy, to raise awareness of Health and Safety and provide clear information to help staff make informed decisions. The University worked hard to reach these goals by making changes such as:
Appointing a team of faculty and service Health and Safety managers, along with the first Director of Health, Safety and Wellbeing in a UK university
Doubling the Health and Safety budget to £1.4m over two years
Writing new campus-wide Health and Safety policies
Creating a campus-wide campaign to get everyone involved in Health and Safety
Implementing Safeguard - Rivo’s web-based risk assessment application. Gary Tideswell, Director of Wellbeing, Safety and Health collected the award, and said “We're delighted to have to have won this award which recognises the great steps our staff are taking in putting Health and Safety at the heart of their work. It shows how sensible risk management enables and supports student learning, innovation and world class research here at the University of Leeds."


September 2008

Britain’s newest university signs up to use Safeguard

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Britain’s newest university signs up to use Safeguard Formed through the union of The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College and the Kent Institute of Art & Design, the University for the Creative Arts is one of the UK's leading providers of specialist art and design education, offering strengths in art, design, architecture, media and communication. With 5 locations and around 6,500 students, the University was looking for a way of improving accident and incident recording and reporting and raising awareness of Health & Safety throughout the organisation. Health and Safety Advisor, Emma Bodiam, commented: “We are very excited to be working with Rivo on the implementation of Safeguard within the University, we are confident that Safeguard will help us to improve not only the reporting and recording of incidents and accidents, but to provide us with a more robust and effective system for incident notifications, investigation, subsequent follow up action and incident trend analysis."


August 2008

University of Leeds select Safeguard

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University of Leeds select Safeguard The University of Leeds is the UK’s second largest university with 30,500 students, 8000 staff spread over 9 Faculties. Rivo are pleased to announce that the University of Leeds has chosen Rivo Safeguard to provide a common system for managing Risk Assessments and COSHH across all Faculties, Schools and Services. Gary Tideswell, Director of Wellbeing, Safety and Health at the University of Leeds said: "The University of Leeds takes health and safety very seriously indeed, seeing it as a vital component in our ability to integrate world-class research and teaching. As part of our innovative approach to wellbeing, safety and health we are delighted to announce our partnership with Rivo to develop their Safeguard package to best meet our needs and support the management of risk assessments across campus."


January 2008

Home improvement retailer B&Q to use Safeguard

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B&Q, the number one DIY retailer in Europe and the third largest in the world, with more than 60 stores opened internationally, is to use Safeguard to improve the way in which it manages accidents and incidents across its stores.

March 2008

Rivo to exhibit at IOSH 2008 Health and Safety: making the connection

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If you are attending IOSH 2008 18 -19 March 2008, The International Centre, Telford, come and see us on Stand C15 for a demonstration of the business benefits provided by Safeguard, our integrated Safety, Health & Environmental management software.

July 2008

New Functionality within the Training Module

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Training Matrix The training matrix can be used to manage employee training records and training requirements. The Matrix allows organisations to monitor and identify the following:
Ensure employees are trained to carry out the tasks involved within their job roles
Job roles and the different training requirements associated to them.
Training requirements can be categorised for example as mandatory or optional, based on job roles. This allows training courses to be prioritised.
Identify each employee’s training to date and future training required.
The training matrix can also be used to identify the training completed, and required for third parties such as contractors.
Course Management With the new functionality Safeguard users are now able to more efficiently manage a programme of courses by:
Creating a training course where the potential delegate list is auto created based on the training matrix.

Ensure the correct delegates are selected based on their job roles and the types of training to be delivered.

Delegates are invited to attend, or are enrolled onto courses based on a defined minimum and maximum number of places on a course.

All invites and enrolments are communicated via email notifications.

Course registers are produced and automatically populated with delegate names and dates
Completed courses are marked to identify delegate attendance / non-attendance, and pass marks.

Non-attendance can be reduced through reminder emails for scheduled courses.
For further information about this new functionality go to www.rivo.co.uk/ module-training.aspx or contact us on 01926 311300.

July 2008

Rivo achieves ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001

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Rivo Software is pleased to announce that our integrated management system for quality, environment and occupational Health and Safety has been approved to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 by an independent Certification Body.

Many of the controls that Rivo has put in place are managed using our software system, Safeguard. Specifically, Safeguard is used to record and manage accidents, incidents and near misses, for DSE assessments and the follow up of any issues raised, for recording Risk Assessments and ensuring that they are reviewed and updated regularly, for maintaining records of employee training and training needs, and for scheduling and recording our internal audits.

Managing Director Simon Hook commented “Continuous improvement of our business is a core Rivo philosophy. We are committed to achieving and maintaining effective and efficient business processes so that we can meet the requirements of our clients and deliver consistently high levels of client satisfaction .”

July 2008

Fundraising above the clouds

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Rivo’s Managing Director, Simon Hook, has put on his hiking boots and set off to climb Mountain Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro located in Northern Tanzania, lures thousands of climbers, professional and amateur alike each year to attempt to conquer its 5,895-meter summit.

Having already raised around £13,000 for Leukaemia Research after running the London Marathon in April this year, Simon hopes to get more people to give blood as currently only 4% of the eligible population actually donates blood. Talking about his latest challenge Simon said “Leukaemia Research is a charity close to my heart as they are the only charity in the UK dedicated exclusively to researching blood cancers and disorders. They are committed to giving everyone living with Leukaemia the best chance of survival. Leukaemia Research receives no government grants and their life-saving research depends entirely on voluntary donations. I hope to do my bit and that I can also inspire you to help.” Further details can be found on Simon’s blog http://savealife.typepad.com/save_a_life/ Good luck Simon!

June 2008

University of Kent to implement Safeguard

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Rivo are pleased to announce that the University of Kent has decided to implement Safeguard to provide a more focused solution to managing its occupational Health & Safety across its two main sites.

June 2008

Kingstown Works select Safeguard

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Kingstown Works provide building maintenance and construction services in Hull and East Yorkshire and whose clients include Hull City Council, public and private sector buildings, churches, museums and libraries have selected Safeguard to provide a comprehensive health and safety management system to enable the organisation to record and report accidents and incidents more easily and to manage audits and risk assessments.

Health & Safety Advisor Martin Render commented: ”KWL has chosen Safeguard because it fitted all the requirements needed for the organisation to take its next step forward in effective Safety Management.”

May 2008

Engineering Services Group Redhall sign up to use Safeguard

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The Redhall Group are a leading specialist engineering services group operating in the nuclear, oil, gas, petrochemical sectors. Safeguard has been selected to further enhance the Group’s commitment and focus on safety performance. Using Safeguard will give Redhall a more visible and proactive approach to managing SHEQ within an organisation with such diverse interests. Safeguard will be used for the recording and monitoring of accidents, incidents and near –misses throughout the Group, to highlight any problem areas quickly so that preventative measures can be put in place.

Steve Long, Director of Safety, Health, Environment & Quality, commented: ”we believe Safeguard will enable us to access information much more swiftly enabling us to respond to events and incidents quickly. It will also save a considerable amount of our safety teams time, allowing them to focus on real issues in the workplace rather than spending their time completing Client and Board reports which the configured system will produce automatically."

May 2008

Rivo to sponsor SHP IOSH Awards 2008

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Rivo are proud to sponsoring the SHP IOSH Awards again. The Awards Ceremony is taking place on Wednesday 8 October 2008 at the London Hilton, Park Lane. The evening will provide an opportunity to reward examples of innovation, excellence and best practice within Health and Safety.

The list of categories for the awards are as follows:

Best Health and Safety achievement in Construction
Best Health and Safety achievement in Health Care and Emergency Services
Best Health and Safety achievement in Manufacturing
Best Health and Safety achievement in a Local Authorities and Education
Best Health and Safety achievement in Transport and Logistics
Best Health and Safety achievement in a Utilities
Training Initiative of the Year
Consultant of the Year
Achiever of the Year
New Entrant
Innovation of the Year
Campaign of the Year
Partnership Initiative of the Year

April 2008

Rivo to exhibit at Safety & Health Expo 2008 13-15 May 2008, NEC Birmingham

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Rivo will be exhibiting at the annual Health and Safety event, Safety & Health Expo 08 at the NEC, Birmingham. Running from 13 to 15 May, features include an extensive exhibition, live demonstration areas and a comprehensive seminar programme. Rivo will be demonstrating its new Environmental management system which helps organisations improve their environmental performance by monitoring environmental impacts and aspects. To find out more come and visit us at stand A3.

Further details can be found at www.safety-health-expo.co.uk

April 2008

Leading international defence and security technology company, QinetiQ, to use Safeguard
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QinetiQ, one of the largest defence research organisations in the world, has selected Safeguard to help streamline accidents and incidents recording and reporting and manage their COSHH processes.

March 2008

Rivo Software Launches New Environmental Management System

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Rivo is pleased to announce the introduction of our new Environmental Management System (EMS), which is fully integrated with our existing Safety and Health platforms.

The system is designed to help organisations manage all their environmental “aspects” and “impacts”, including Environmental Audits, Events, and Risk Assessments, whilst also co-ordinating all Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting data.

The EMS allows organisations to streamline their environmental management information and to have access to real-time environmental information for reporting purposes.
Features of the EMS include the easy identification of environmental patterns and trends so that areas of non-conformance can be identified quickly.

Simon Hook, Managing Director, commented: “Clients have come to rely on our existing Safeguard platform to provide standardisation, control and visibility across their organisations for Safety and Health issues. From that base, development of our new Environmental Management System has been led by demands of our clients, who saw the potential to extend the functionality of our best-in-class software”.

Health and Safety Software

Health and Safety software from Rivo

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Rivo Software helps you manage Health and Safety, and Environmental risk and compliance. As a fully flexible system, Safeguard is configured to replicate your existing business processes in order to increase visibility, reduce the administrative burden, and further de-risk the organisation.

Our risk management and compliance platforms provide you with the tools you need to proactively manage and measure corporate governance, quality, crime, and business risk, and assist you in achieving and maintaining environmental and safety procedures to ISO 18001 & 14001 standards, whilst keeping costs down. Drawing on our global, cross industry experience and risk management expertise, every implementation is designed to provide you with measurable business improvements and a rapid return on investment.

Safeguard, our enterprise level Health and Safety software is a modular platform, which is used globally in 37 countries and in 10 different languages. Modules include: Accident Management, Incident Management, Risk Assessment, Permits to Work, Audits, Management Reporting, Task Management, Training and Competencies, Chemical Control (REACH/COSHH), Environmental Monitoring, Contractor Management, Surveys and Assessments.

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