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Health and safety charity hit by collapse of major creditorPublished in Featured,Local News,News on 2nd September, 2010

The Willenhall based Registered Charity, the Workplace Health And Safety Advice Centre (WHASAC), has been devastated after a company that provided one of its major sources of income went into voluntary liquidation.

WHASAC is owed thousands of pounds for training and services provided to the High Wycombe based company CM Training.

WHASAC’s Director of Services, Ian Peters, said:

“It was a bitter blow to learn that CM Training had gone into voluntary liquidation without notifying us and leaving a trail of unpaid debts for the training that we had provided for them and the use of our facilities. We are a small self sufficient Charity that generates our own income to provide our totally free work related health and safety help, support and advice to small businesses, the self employed and in effect, anyone who needs our help with their health and safety at work issues”.

The Advice Centre, which is based in Bellamy House, Willenhall, has just celebrated a year of providing the kind of health and safety services which are out of reach to a lot of individuals and organisations because of cost and resources.

“We have helped so many local businesses over the last twelve months to manage their health and safety in these difficult times and I know that we have contributed to their survival because we have saved them a great deal of worry and money. Our philosophy is based on the premise that by removing or reducing the resources and cost element of health and safety management and activities, then employers, for example, are more likely to have safer systems of work in place…this is where we come in”.

The Advice centre relies on the income that it generates from providing health and safety training at Bellamy House, Willenhall and throughout the UK to bring in the income that enables it to serve the West Midlands.

Asked if the loss of income would affect the services that the WHASAC provides, Ian Peters replied:

“I am unsure, it may do, but we will have to try to manage the Charity accordingly, but I would hope that we would not turn away anyone with a health and safety problem”.

He also added that if any employers or organisations are looking for health and safety training then the WHASAC would certainly appreciate a call to see if their lost income could be replaced. WHASAC can be contacted on 01902 609674, by email at whasac@btconnect.com or online at www.whasac.co.uk”.