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Sponsors
Toyota Material Handling
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Toyota Material Handling is very proud to be sponsoring the Best Factory Awards. Home to the world’s best selling Toyota counterbalance and BT warehouse trucks; we offer a single point of contact for all your materials handling needs. From single truck users to some of the biggest names in manufacturing we have the product and support services to be a strong business partner.
At Toyota we pride ourselves on bringing innovative products to the material handling market with the quality assurance of the Toyota Production System. Our range is packed with features to help improve productivity and safety alongside driving down costs. For example our unique System of Active Stability (SAS) has helped to protect counterbalance operators across the world for the last ten years and our reach truck range which boasts 360° steering and seamless lifting technology for smooth, productive handling.
From years of experience working with manufacturers in the UK, we know there is much to celebrate and we look forward to hearing the many inspirational stories the awards are sure to uncover.Barclays Corporate
Barclays Corporate has specialists in more than 50 industry sectors with a team of experts dedicated to the manufacturing sector. This unique industry–focused proposition allows Barclays Corporate to build up an in–depth understanding of both the day–to–day challenges, alongside the longer–term opportunities facing businesses in the manufacturing sector. In today’s market, every company is under pressure to manage its finances effectively, so having a financial partner that understands your needs is crucial.
For further information about Barclays, please visit our websites:
www.barclayscorporate.com
www.barclayscorporate.com/inperspective
DAK Consulting
Our mission at DAK Consulting is to help organisations to secure year on year improvement in performance.
Our work with well known and award winning organisations shows that training alone is not enough. In addition to raising awareness of Lean and TPM tools we provide on the job coaching and facilitation. This combined with our CI audit support reinforces behavioural change and systematically guides the development of internal CI Leadership and front line CI capability.
In addition to improving today’s operations, we help organisations to continuously improve new product and capital project delivery processes. This provides a vehicle to engage the whole organisation and/or value chain in a common “end to end” improvement agenda.
In short, we work with you to build on existing good practices and challenge barriers to change to accelerate the delivery of lasting business benefits.
Let our consultants help you and your team to deliver your future business improvement goals. Alternatively sign up for one of our DAK Academy practitioner level training workshops @ www.dakconsulting.co.uk/dakacademy.html
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Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
IOSH is the largest professional body for health and safety practitioners in the world. A Chartered Institution since 2003 we were granted the right by
the Privy Council to offer individual Chartered status to members who meet our exacting criteria in 2005. We have over 36,000 members with more than
12,000 of them Chartered Members.
As the acknowledged guardians of health and safety competency our mission is to see a world of work that is safe health and sustainable through a pragmatic approach to health and safety legislation and practice. All of our qualified members maintain a Continuing Professional Development record with us ensuring their knowledge, skills and advice are of the highest standard.
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PP Business Improvement
PPBI helps businesses uncover the things that stand in the way of their productivity and profitability and gives them the tools and techniques to change them. It works with major names and small companies alike to raise their performance to a whole new level. Unlike conventional consultancy, it doesn’t use one–size–fits–all training. Instead, it gives people the specific technical, analytical and managerial skills their own organization needs to grow. But, more than that, it helps the entire workforce develop the confidence and attitudes to actively seek improvement in every aspect of the business for themselves. So the business will carry on improving long after PPBI has left.
The National Skills Academy for Manufacturing
The National Skills Academy for Manufacturing (The Skills Academy) - part of Semta, the Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing
Technologies - is sponsoring the Skills Development Award in the 2010 Best Factory Awards. The Skills Academy is a central part of the government’s
skills strategy and will focus on meeting the skills needs of both large and small employers from the manufacturing sector, including Aerospace, Automotive,
Electronics and Marine. The Skills Academy set’s national standards for Providers and programmes that support the vision that employers see the biggest return
on investment by selecting the right programme, the right provider against the right process.
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Unite the Union
Unite the Union is sponsoring the Health and Safety Award in BFA 2009. Unite the
Union is the 'union for life,' throughout members' working lives - whatever their
job and whoever their employer. Based on the principles of individual and collective
responsibility, Unite the Union is dedicated to improving its members' standard of
living and quality of life in both the public and private sectors reflecting the
changing world of work, supporting workers through a programme of campaigning and
organising.
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