Serious Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Gas-Powered Forklift

Hi-Tech Products Ltd in Swadlingcote, Derbyshire experienced serious problems with carbon monoxide poisoning on the 10th Feb 2011. One Thursday lunchtime, four members of the factory started to feel unwell, with the office workers starting to feel ill as well minutes later. The company suspected some form of CO poisoning and rang the gas supplier [...]

February’s Customer Survey Winner

Every month Safelincs offers its customers the chance to win £25 worth of ‘Love2shop’ high street vouchers The customer survey winner for February was Mr King from Huddersfield, after ordering from Safelincs he completed the customer survey questionnaire immediately being entered into the prize draw.   After being selected from random he was the lucky winner of the £25 Love2Shop [...]

Severe fire at Pounstretcher store in Newcastle-under-Lyme

An investigation is underway to determine the cause of a severe fire at a Poundstretcher store in Newcastle-under-Lyme. The fire, which broke out on the morning of 28 February 2011, has rendered the building unsafe which will now have to be demolished. Residents of flats adjacent to the fire wrecked building have been evacuated and [...]

Pancake day safety tips

Across England on Shrove Tuesday hundreds of people will be cooking and eating pancakes. Pancakes are easy to make and many children will be cooking them themselves. Cooking pancakes can be a high fire risk, getting distracted with lathering your pancake in your favourite topping could lead to the frying pan being left unattended and [...]

Safelincs go to 2011 Caterex Show

The Caterex show has been running for 27 years and this year we made our debut appearance. The trade show is an opportunity for local and national suppliers to show the hotel and catering industry what they have to offer. There were stands from very local suppliers and also very large national companies, giving visitors [...]

CO alarm saves family

As a result of the blog we wrote about the carbon monoxide leak that left one of the characters in EastEnders unconscious a customer was prompted to contact us. Our customer found that after she bought her CO alarm from us it alerted her to a carbon monoxide leak that came from her cooker. She [...]