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Can You Help?- Demonstration Sites Required
If you have a hard-standing yard with a wall approx. 4 metres high and 8 metres wide, you may be able to help us with demonstrating our Solar PV roofline system and associated products to PV installation companies. We will of course be happy to pay for the venue.
Requirements:
- You need to be based in Devon, Cornwall, North East England, North West England or Wales
- Hard-standing yard with a wall measuring approx. 4 metres high and 8 metres wide. This will enable us to erect the roofline system. Two products will be demonstrated on the rear of our converted vehicle
- Parking for up to 20 people from 8 different solar installation companies.
If you think that you may be able to help us, please call Robert Sleney on 01767 691812.
OSHA Poised to Significantly Increase Fines
Washington – OSHA fines will increase for the first time in a quarter century, under a provision in the recently signed congressional budget deal.
The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 exempted OSHA from increasing its penalties to account for inflation. The new budget, signed into law on Nov. 2 by President Barack Obama, contains an amendment that strikes the exemption.
Now, OSHA is directed to issue an interim final rule increasing its penalties to account for current inflation levels, which would raise proposed fines by about 80 percent. This would mean the maximum penalty for a willful violation would rise to about $127,000 from the current $70,000. The adjustment must occur before Aug. 1, 2016. In subsequent years, OSHA also will be allowed – for the first time – to adjust its penalties levels based on inflation.
The last time OSHA’s maximum penalty levels were increased was in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990.