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Card Factory, who operate 480 stores nationwide and employ around 4500 people must pay out more than £40,000 after health and safety teams found unsafe ladders and nails protruding from shelves at three city stores around Leicester. Sportswift Ltd, the firm behind the Card Factory shops, pleaded guilty to four health and safety breaches and two offences of failing to comply … [Read more...] about £32k Ladder Fall Fine for Card Factory Owners Sportswift

At TB Davies, we are committed to keeping people safe and for the past 60 years, TB Davies Ladders have been considered the safest ladders on the market. Today we are offering you the chance to preview the entirely new `safe ladder` category that we are proud to bring to the UK market from our US partners Little Giant during 2010.For more than 100 years ladders remained … [Read more...] about TB Davies New "Safe Ladder" Category Preview

On Sat 3 October the Raf Waddington Fire Service attempted to climb a ladder to the height of Mount Everest to raise funds for Help for Heroes. Bryn and Emma Parry founded Heroes in October 2007 out of a desire to help the wounded Servicemen and women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.Shoppers in Lincoln City Centre were invited to support a team of 20 fire fighters from … [Read more...] about Mount Everest Charity Ladders Climb

After a quick paced pitch with plenty of technical demonstrations Julie Meyer opens up the questions, querying how Alex first came to the idea. Alex explains that after searching high and low for a product that would do the job he decided to make his own.Shaf Rasul gets straight to the numbers and Alex confidently provides figures for tooling and production costs. Shaf then … [Read more...] about Ladder Buddy, what happened to Alex in the Online Dragons Den?

The high profile launch last month by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is concerned that some contractors are still putting themselves at risk by using out of date and shoddy old equipment. It has teamed up with TB Davies to raise awareness about the dangers and urge its customers to ensure their ladders are safe to use.Health and safety inspectors will be carrying out … [Read more...] about Ladder Exchange Scheme Continues To Replace Dodgy Old Ladders