Welding World Magazin April 2018

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OBE AWARDED TO
BOHS PAST PRESIDENT
BOHS, The Chartered Society for Worker
Health Protection, has celebrated after
Trevor Ogden, a past president, was
awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s
Honours list, for services to occupational
hygiene and workplace air quality.
Trevor was president of BOHS in 1991,
and has enjoyed a long and distinguished
career in occupational hygiene,
accomplishing numerous, pre-eminent
achievements including:
Chief Editor of the Annals of Work
Exposures and Health, from 1997 – 2012
Developed a method of measuring the
inhalation hazard of radon progeny in
flammable atmospheres, which became a
standard method for these measurements
in British coalmines
Developed the Regulatory
Interlaboratory Counting Exchanges
(RICE) quality assurance scheme and
methods of internal quality control: 35
years later these are still used by the
HSE publication HSG248 “The Analysts’
Guide”, and UKAS guidance for asbestos
counting accreditation
Trevor’s award means he is now part
of another select group i.e. BOHS past
presidents who have been honoured with
an OBE: Michael Molyneux (president
him in his world, learning from him. So
our building process felt a bit like my
taking an apprenticeship in cutting and
welding metal and learning about cars. It
was definitely a bonding experience, said
Hetain.
“Another significant influence for
me and this work are Transformers, an
American film and toy franchise since 1984,
and a widely recognisable pop culture
reference that reaches far back in my
memory. In this new sculpture, Transformers
have been made manifest, physically, in a
literal transformation of a Ford Fiesta car
into a large-scale squatting human-like
figure. For me, these ‘robots in disguise’ (as
per the cartoon’s theme tune) stand as a
metaphor for the other, in a fantasy world
where they can transform out of a marginal
in 1979); Charles Veys (1989); and Bob
Sithamparandarajah (Bob Rajan, 2012).
Simon Festing, CEO of BOHS, said:
“BOHS offers sincere congratulations
to Trevor, in being recognised for the
considerable contributions he’s made
to occupational hygiene over the years.
His award coincides with a noteworthy
year for BOHS, as we mark our 65th
anniversary – a timely opportunity to
reflect on our achievements, and the
impact made by occupational hygiene
to improving worker health protection.”
Simon added: “In order to continue to
make an impact, it is critical to ensure
that we – along with our stakeholders –
maintain our efforts to achieve our vision
of a healthy working environment for
everyone.”
Trevor continues to make contributions
to the world of worker health protection:
recently he has been a British delegate
and BOHS nominee to the European
Committee for Standardization (CEN),
which has revised EN689, on measuring
compliance with Occupational Exposure
Limit (OELs). Forty three years after his
first presentation at a BOHS conference,
he will present on this latest work at
OH2018 in April, in Stratford-upon-Avon.
position into one of empowerment.
“Importantly, I created this sculpture
together with my father, with additional
help from my engineer brother and fellow
Transformers enthusiast, Pritum Patel. My
father, whose day job is to convert cars into
hearses and limousines for funerals, has
carried out all the fabrication and structural
work with me.”
Unlike the popular toys and films,
however, the car here is not a highpowered
sports car or truck transformed
into a powerful warrior, but rather a small
inexpensive Ford Fiesta transformed into a
human-like figure calmly squatting.
Fiesta Transformer was at Studio 144
John Hansard Gallery in Guildhall Square,
Southampton.
AUTOMOTIVE CONFIDENCE
International confidence in the UK’s
automotive sector was bolstered in
March as Toyota announced it will build
its new generation Auris model at its
Burnaston factory in Derbyshire.
In a further vote of confidence for UK
engineering expertise, the majority of
engines for the new model will be sourced
from the company’s Deeside factory in north
Wales, helping secure 3,000 jobs across the
2 sites.
Business Secretary Greg Clark welcomed
the decision during a visit to the Burnaston
factory , where he met teams who will
be working on the new model. The
decision was helped in part by government
investment of more than £20 million
announced last year to support the upgrade
of the facility and the installation of a new
production platform to make the plant more
competitive and enable it to build more
advanced vehicles.
The investment follows the publication
of last month’s landmark sector deal
between government and the automotive
sector, a vital moment in establishing the
UK’s leadership in meeting the Future
of Mobility and Clean Growth Grand
Challenges.
Business Secretary Greg Clark said: “We
have been clear in our commitment to
ensuring the automotive sector continues
to go from strength to strength which
is why, through the Industrial Strategy,
we established a landmark Automotive
Sector Deal that will see us working with
industry to put the UK at the forefront of
new technologies and future investment
decisions.
“Toyota’s decision to build its new Auris
model in Burnaston is testament to the
highly-skilled and committed workforce that
helps make the UK’s automotive sector one
of the most productive in the world, and this
government will continue work to create the
best possible environment to maintain this
fruitful relationship.”
The UK’s automotive sector continues to
thrive with the UK currently the third largest
European car producer with the highest
productivity among Europe’s automotive
producing nations. The sector generates
£14.6 billion, representing 8.2% of the UK’s
total manufacturing gross value added.
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