International FM consultancy, Agents4RM, has acquired a 50% stake in Workplace Law Group, bringing together two well-known industry figures – Lionel Prodgers and David Sharp – to create a global learning and development business as a core component of a global professional services business for the FM and built environment sector. Workplace Law is already a leading provider of consultancy and training with particular prominence in the FM sector. Workplace Law’s award-winning elearning platform, and its accredited provider status with ins... Continue reading

Monday 7 July will see the Tour de France make its way from Cambridge to London as we are treated to a cycling spectacle during the Tour's three-day visit to Britain. This may be the main event, but please don’t forget about our cycling efforts taking place during the same period as we embark on Le Ride Week! Between us, the Workplace Law team originally set out to cycle the distance of the UK leg of the Tour de France (569 miles) from 5-12 July. However, after a number of extremely courageous pledges, we will now be cycling a total of 1,325... Continue reading

In 2013 we conducted a research project looking at organisations’ training matrices and as a result of that have now published new matrices which identify best practice health and safety competencies for a wide range of roles and can be applied to any industry. We wanted to discover what the minimum requirement was for those taking on roles and what the expectations were for training to be completed within six months to a year. The results of this research were then analysed and led to the development of a best practice training ma... Continue reading

Bike Week 2014, which kicks off tomorrow (14 June) and runs until 22 June, is an annual opportunity to promote cycling, and show how cycling can easily be part of everyday life by encouraging ‘everyday cycling for everyone’. Demonstrating the social, health and environmental benefits of cycling, the week aims to get people across the UK to give it a go, and we at Workplace Law are planning to get out on our bikes in preparation for Le Ride Week. Bike Week is the biggest nationwide cycling event in the UK and encourages over half a million... Continue reading

To celebrate the UK’s 85% reduction in fatal accidents since the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act in 1974, the country’s leading health and safety bodies are uniting to launch Health and Safety Week 2014. The week, which will take place 16-20 June, will be launched at the Safety & Health Expo with the aim of reinstating a positive image for this exceptionally worthwhile profession. Commenting on the upcoming week, Heather Beach, Director, UBM Live, organisers of this annual exhibition and conference and the driving force... Continue reading