News & Thoughts

NAS Forums announcement: Training and Standards, and Shopfitting and Fit-Out Pain Points
Following a call out for participants in summer, the first NAS Training and Standards Forum took place last week with 14 attendees in total. These

Meet the Partner: Gareth Duford at PQS
Our first Meet the Partner blog is with Gareth Duford, Scheme Lead at PQS. PQS is our latest partner, offering free SSIP assessments to NAS

Employment law changes you may have missed
With the Coronavirus pandemic being the main focus and topic of conversation in recent months, there may be employment law changes that you’ve accidentally missed.

NOW AVAILABLE: 50% off* training for eligible NAS members
We are delighted that the NAS has been successful in a recent £25k CITB GB funding bid, enabling us to offer our members substantially discounted

Free SSIP assessment for NAS members as part of new PQS partnership
From today (5 October 2020) the National Association of Shopfitters (NAS) is offering its members FREE SSIP (Safety Schemes in Procurement)* assessment through its scheme

Five Minutes With Debbie Forbes, Regional Manager at HSS Training
Debbie, how did you first come into the industry? Quite by accident – a colleague from a former company headhunted me back

Covid-19 updates: Job Support Scheme, Fines for companies preventing workers from self-isolation
Working from Home In light of Boris Johnson’s announcement on 22 September, UK office workers have been encouraged to return to working from home, much

Five Minutes With Gail Hounslea, Chairman of the Ladder Association and Managing Director of Ladderstore
As part of the NAS’ Working at Height Week, we are grateful to have had the opportunity to spend (a virtual!) Five Minutes

The impact of a fall from height: Jason Anker’s story
In 1993 I had a fall from height whilst working on a roofing job, falling ten feet from an unsecured ladder. Only 24, I was