The British Safety Council’s International Safety Awards 2022 are now open for applications, with a new category to celebrate the achievements of individuals and organisations who go the extra mile to transform health, safety and wellbeing.

The International Safety Awards are an internationally recognised accolade for safety excellence.

A virtual Job’s Club has been launched to help people get jobs in the construction industry.

Midlands based construction company, RMF Group has launched the monthly Jobs Club, in partnership with the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), to engage with local communities and share various training and career opportunities within the construction sector. The first club will be held they (Thursday October 7) at 3pm and can be joined via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/west-midlands-combined-jobs-club-7-october-tickets-175441780087

The event, which is supported by the Department for Work and Pensions and Colleges West Midlands, focuses on the construction industry. Each month selected employers will talk about various projects across the region and help available for individuals wanting to start a career in construction within the West Midlands.

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands and chair of the WMCA, said: “This new Jobs Club is a great initiative to help people find good quality work as part of my 100,000 jobs plan.

“We know construction is a major growth area in the West Midlands that will create tens of thousands of jobs in the coming years, and we need to use programmes like RMF’s to help local people take advantage of those jobs. Coming in the wake of the end of the furlough scheme, the Jobs Club follows on from last week’s announcement that the WMCA has a £25 million package of training support to help unemployed people across the region find work.”

The Jobs Club initiative is accompanied by the RMF Fresh Start jobs website, which plays an integral role in linking employers with those who face systematic barriers within our society and aims to bring about change in the approach taken by the construction and rail industries towards recruitment. Employers are given the opportunity to advertise live job vacancies and access a network of trained candidates seeking roles within the industry.

RMF’s business and social value director, Dara McCarthy, said: “Fresh Start organically promotes corporate social responsibility in the core of its business practices by providing ex-offenders and under-represented groups with the relevant training, development and qualifications required to find economic stability and reintegrate back into society. We don’t just train candidates – we are completely focused on getting them into work too.”

RMF Group delivers regular construction training and is dedicated to being socially inclusive. It runs an in-house labour supply model, which satisfies its client’s workforce requirements through the utilization of a rapidly growing employee base. This multi-service offer has helped RMF remain busy throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and it has continued to provide training both virtually and at its 22 acre construction training site, specialising in delivering plant and groundwork and qualifications.

The Global SME Finance Forum is the largest, most technically in-depth, and geographically diverse conference on SME financing hosted around the world each year. Last year, as COVID-19 ushered the world unexpectedly, the decion was made to move the panels online and build a virtual community.

The event attracted over 2600 registrations from 1000+ commercial banks, development finance institutions, fintech companies, and regulators from 150+ countries, which broke our record for the number of registrations.

Award-winning events and conference venue, Millennium Point, has seen a surge in event enquiries demonstrating confidence that in-person business events are steadily making a comeback to the corporate calendar.

Since fully reopening its 17 diverse events spaces in July, Millennium Point has reported a 26% increase in enquiries each month for corporate events taking place in 2021 and 2022, with an impressive increase in overall enquiries of 96% between April 2021 and July 2021.

A massive overhaul of transport in Birmingham city centre is planned to meet the challenges of the next decade.

The Birmingham Transport Plan 2031, based on a 2020 consultation, is scheduled to be discussed at Birmingham City Council’s Cabinet meeting next Tuesday.

City of Wolverhampton Council have announced its preferred developer for its Bilston Urban Village employment site. It has selected commercial property company Goold Estates to develop top-grade units ranging from 5,000 to 25,000 sq ft on almost 15 acres of vacant brownfield land.

The £17.6 million construction of the new industrial and commercial units in Bilston could deliver up to 400 jobs and support demand for a range of commercial units from new and existing businesses.