OCP Tenant SARS Celebrate 30 Years With New Premises, Logo and Conference Venue

 

The Safety and Reliability Society (SARS) recently celebrated thirty years as the professional institution for safety, reliability and engineering risk management practitioners in all industries.

The Society also relocated to new premises and have updated their logo from 1 march 2011.

In a process that included a competition for members to design a logo, the Society’s National Council met to make a final decision in January 2011. The Council selected a crisp, clear image to support the clear vision of Value-Engagement-Growth and progressive strategies being adopted by the organisation.

Chief Executive Dr Jacqueline Christodoulou said, ‘On the backdrop of a steady yet developing industrial and educational landscape, the Society has chosen to retain the corporate colours, but streamline the image. This reflects our recent move to One Central Park where the organisation can better grow and thrive, yet retain our founding ethos going forward.’

The Society has moved to One Central Park take advantage of modern offices and integral conferencing facilities close to Manchester City Centre. Dr Christodoulou commented: ‘Our membership, and the safety and reliability community in general, will benefit from this move, as we will begin to provide more seminars and training opportunities as well as membership services.’

The Safety and Reliability Society was formed in the UK in 1980 and now has members in the UK, mainland Europe and the Asia Pacific region. It also has an Affiliate membership scheme for academic institutions, industrial companies, and other organisations with interests in safety and reliability and engineering risk management and has around 40 affiliate members. A lively regional branch network supports a thriving national events programme, offering training and networking to members and non-members.

The Society is a Professional Affiliate of the Engineering Council and a member of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA).  It is also represented on a number of bodies including the UK Committee for Defence Equipment Reliability and Maintainability, (CODERM), British Standards Committees, collaborative and inter-institutional groups, and technical committees of several of the major engineering institutions.  This enables it to contribute to the development of standards and best practice, and disseminate information on such developments to its members.

See www.sars.org.uk for more info.