We take our health and safety responsibilities very seriously, each and every piece of funfair equipment has to undergo a rigorous independent engineers inspection covering electrical and mechanical safety, as a result the fairground industry has the best safety record of any passenger carrying industry in the UK.
We always supply copies of the inspection certificates we receive along with copies of our risk assessments and public liability insurance to any event we attend. We have just attended a college ball in Oxford where the on site power distribution people refused point blank to accept our test certificates. They insisted on PAT (portable appliance testing certificates) which is not something the Health and Safety executive recommend for the funfair industry. Instead we are required to undergo an ADIPS inspection (Amusement Devices Inspection Procedures Scheme) which is generally far more stringent than a PAT test. So we are now in the situation where anything we are likely to attend a college event with is going to have to be PAT tested as well as ADIPS tested. Surely with all this standardisation the EU seems to be foisting on us they could do something useful like offer us a standardised testing scheme.
Anyway that gripe aside the corporate side of things is still steaming ahead, we've just looked at our bookings for this year and to be truthful, I don't think we will be attending many traditional funfairs, we don't really have the time. The amount of work coming in from all of our websites is phenomenal, with the exception of the helterskelterhire.com site. That has led to a steady but unspectacular stream of work. This will be remedied over the next few weeks as we put more time and effort into winning corporate work with that particular attraction.
We attended the Ponderosa rare breeds animal farms 10th anniversary party on Sunday. The day was building up nicely until the heavens opened up and a torrential downpour ensued, leaving us soaked to the skin as we dismantled and removed everything. Our policy of building long term relationships seems to be working as we have attended the Ponderosa a number of times over the last 12 months, as situation we have repeated at Ripon where we have just been offered another couple of events for this summer.
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We always supply copies of the inspection certificates we receive along with copies of our risk assessments and public liability insurance to any event we attend. We have just attended a college ball in Oxford where the on site power distribution people refused point blank to accept our test certificates. They insisted on PAT (portable appliance testing certificates) which is not something the Health and Safety executive recommend for the funfair industry. Instead we are required to undergo an ADIPS inspection (Amusement Devices Inspection Procedures Scheme) which is generally far more stringent than a PAT test. So we are now in the situation where anything we are likely to attend a college event with is going to have to be PAT tested as well as ADIPS tested. Surely with all this standardisation the EU seems to be foisting on us they could do something useful like offer us a standardised testing scheme.
Anyway that gripe aside the corporate side of things is still steaming ahead, we've just looked at our bookings for this year and to be truthful, I don't think we will be attending many traditional funfairs, we don't really have the time. The amount of work coming in from all of our websites is phenomenal, with the exception of the helterskelterhire.com site. That has led to a steady but unspectacular stream of work. This will be remedied over the next few weeks as we put more time and effort into winning corporate work with that particular attraction.
We attended the Ponderosa rare breeds animal farms 10th anniversary party on Sunday. The day was building up nicely until the heavens opened up and a torrential downpour ensued, leaving us soaked to the skin as we dismantled and removed everything. Our policy of building long term relationships seems to be working as we have attended the Ponderosa a number of times over the last 12 months, as situation we have repeated at Ripon where we have just been offered another couple of events for this summer.
Funfair Attractions Available For Corporate Fun Days
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