Newsletter September 2001

Construction Industry Seminar 4 October 2001

We are really excited about the new seminar format starting next month. We have an excellent list of speakers discussing many health and safety issues which face all of us in the construction industry work environment. We will have news about our 2002 products that will be there to assist you too. This is a 'must attend' for many of our customers who depend on our support systems; please join us and benefit from the information that will be available for a very nominal price. The agenda is as follows:

Construction Industry Seminar Agenda
- Thursday 4th October 2001, 09:30 - 14:00

• News Round Up
  Mike Stokes, Director of Health & Safety Mouchel Consulting Ltd
  A review of the current health & safety issues in the construction industry and the forthcoming European Safety Week.
• CDM – New Advisory Code of Practice
  Stephen Wright, Head of CDM Policy Team responsible for the ACoP
  A review of the current progress with the new ACoP from the HSE.
• The New Duty to Manage Asbestos
  Brian Trevette, HSE Asbestos Unit
  The new legislation and what you need to do to keep on the right side of it.
• Casella Asbestos Consulting & Training Services
  Rick Pomeroy, Director, Casella Science & Environment Ltd
  The UK’s largest asbestos survey and training provider on what you need to do to keep ahead of the new asbestos requirements.
• Across the Board CDM at Seeboard
  Bruce Calder, Managing Director Callsafe Services Ltd
  A case study about the implementation of CDM Training and CDM ToolKit™ in this major regional power company.
• Ai Solutions Product Update
  David Marlow, Director, Ai Solutions Ltd
  Developments in CDM and Asbestos ToolKit™ and how we can help you.
• Summary & Questions
• Discussions over working lunch

Bookings for this event are already well up on last year, so please do not delay in getting your application in to us. We offer an early payment discount for those who can pay by the qualifying date. You can register using the online form provided.

Ai Solutions CDROM with Evaluation Software

We have a free promotional CDROM that presents information about Ai Solutions, CDM and asbestos. In addition, we have included free evaluation copies of our software for those who want to find out more about us and our products. Please contact us if you would like a copy.

Asbestos ToolKit™ Lite – Offer £99

We have now launched our Asbestos Register management software and for the rest of this month (September 2001) this will be available for an offer price of £99 plus VAT for a single user license. This is a discounted price from £249 and £249 for maintenance and upgrades. We are offering it with free maintenance and upgrades for the first 12 months to a limited number of customers. This is a first come first served offer, so please be one of the first to benefit from this new product that will help you cope with the new Asbestos Regulations for all your premises.

Our web site has details of the offer or you can contact us direct. The Asbestos ToolKit™ Lite provides all the routines you need to manage your Asbestos Register database, Surveys and Monitoring across all your sites. Users can be set up ‘read only’ of with ‘full editing’ rights and from a shared standalone PC. This is a real bargain at under £100 so please let us have your order now because this offer cannot last!

Competition Time

We have been running a monthly competition for 2 months now. The winners for those months were;

• July 2001: Tim Evans, Planning Supervisor, GNER
• August 2001: Joy Paul, Designer, Airmech (Dubai) LLC

The August Competition, is we believe worth another look because of the really interesting result.

• We asked the question; "Which Principal, according to the (CDM) regulations, has to make the client aware of the CDM duties of the client?"
• The correct answer is "The Designer".
• Only one third of the entries were correct! Of these 56% were designers and 44% were planning supervisors.
• 100% of our overseas entries (which made up 10% of the total) were correct and they were all designers.

Monthly winners for July and August are receiving a free copy of our CDM ToolKit™ 2000 software for their own use for a year.

September Competition Question

This month we are offering a copy of our new Asbestos ToolKit™ Lite product. To be put into the competition draw, please answer the following question on our web site;

"How many people are estimated to have died from an asbestos related disease in the past year?"

You need to select the answer from one of 3 choices on our web site. Please visit https://www.aisolutions.co.uk to enter your answer and get those entries rolling in!

ToolKit™ Tips and Tricks

We have introduced this new 'spot' to pass on tips and information from our developers to our ToolKit™ users. We all hope you find this helpful;

• Did you know that you can manipulate all of the grids in CDM ToolKit™ 2000 to hide, change the order, sort and group columns to your own requirements (just like in Microsoft Outlook) - and this will be saved for the next time that you load that grid.
• To access these functions, click with your mouse on the column headings:
• To Hide a column: right click on the column heading and select 'Hide Column' from the menu.
• To un-hide columns, right click on a column heading and select 'Columns' from the menu; then check the box next to the fields you wish to display.
• To Change the order of columns: left click and drag a column to a new location.
• To Sort by a column: left click on the column heading.
• To Group by a column: right click on the column heading and select 'Group by this column' from the menu.
• To Group on more than one column: right click on a column heading and select 'Groupings' from the menu; select the fields to group by and click 'OK'.
• To remove Groupings: right click on the column headings, select 'Groupings' and click 'OK'.

Why not try it out in the Summary and maybe group by 'Type' and then sort by 'Due Date'.