News
Welcome to the News page of the Highway Electrical Association (HEA).
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25th Jan 2012 - The NMO has published informal consultation on its guidance to accompany the Electricity (Unmetered Supply) Regulations (SI 2001/3263) - the so-called "500W Rule". Consultation will close on 7th March 2012 and the document can be accessed at
Consultation Document January 2012
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3rd Jan 2012 - Brochures for the HERMIS Insurance services and Buckley Scott loss adjusting services for service strikes for HEA and HEA-HEMSA Members only have been uploaded to the Members area - under Members Technical Documents
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16th Dec 2011 - New "Lit Up" Energy Saving Trust report published - see HEA-HEMSA Technical Downloads
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12th Dec 2011 - the latest IN-HEA Newsletter is now on the HEA Members page
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6th Dec 2012 - BBC Crash Map goes live - Using official data recorded by police between 1999 and 2010, nearly every road collision in which someone died has been plotted - some 36,371 in all. See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15975720
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2nd Dec 2012 - The HEA Annual Conference and Exhibition technical papers have been uploaded to the members area as pdf's - other than Neil Purdue's and Mike Stephen's - as these will be reports to be issued in the near future.
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1st Dec 2012 - The eagle-eyed amongst you may have already seen some of the changes both to the website, and the Downloads. In both the publically available and Members Only Downloads, there have been changes including:
- A new Members' Benefits download
- A new HEA wide Application Form for membership & we've had the first one in already!!)
- The new Bylaws including the rrevised HEA wide Code of Conduct
The Members Only Downloads contains the one page Code of Conduct (which can be printed out on A3 - if you have access to this size of paper - to make it easier to read)
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25th Nov 2011 - We are delighted to confirm that the Highway Electrical Association has been accredited to ISO9001 by NQA. The ISO9001 accreditation covers all the work carried out by the HEA, including the Highway Electrical Sector Academy (HESA), the approval of HESA Approved Training Organisations and Trainers and HEA Training as an Approved Training provider and CBQ-NVQ Centre.
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The Lofstedt review of H&S has been published today - and makes for some interesting reading. For more information - click on http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/lofstedt-report.pdf