PSSA Bulletin - Issue 2

CHAIRMAN Paul Jeffrey EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR Jen Shail SECRETARYTOTHE COUNCIL Rob Oliver MBE ADMINISTRATION Robert Bennison T : +44 (0) 20 8253 4509 E: admin@pssasecurity.org W www.pssasecurity.org www.h vmhub.com Care has been taken to ensure the contents of this publication are accurate, but the PSSA do not accept responsibility or liability for errors or information that is found to be misleading. Dates for your diary ONLINE Counter Terror Business 365 Securing Maritime Borders 16 February 2023 365.counterterrorbusiness.com/ UK PSSA Council/AGM/Dinner 30 January 2023 Ardencote, Warwickshire PSSA Interact Day 31 January 2023 Ardencote, Warwickshire UK Security & Policing 14-16 March 2023 Farnborough The Security Event 25-27 April 2023 NEC, Birmingham IFSEC 16-18 May 2023 ExCel, London Counter Terror Expo 17-18 May 2023 ExCel London UK British Security Awards 21 June 2023 Grand Connaught Rooms, London International Security Expo 26 – 27 September 2023 Olympia, London INTERNATIONAL ISCWest 28-31 March 2023 Las Vegas Your biggest business challenge? Managing the business through uncertain times over the past 24 months or so with Brexit, Covid, the war in eastern Europe and the recent political issues in the UK. Your greatest unrealised personal ambition? Growing one of our trading arms above £1.5m annual turnover, every time we get close one of the challenges mentioned above blocks the momentum. Britain in 2022 was characterised by political turbulence – the year of the three Prime Ministers. For 2023, if the government could do just one thing that would help your business, what would it be? Stop putting the burden of wage growth on to business to fill the funding black holes that the Treasury and the country now has. We need to get the workforce operating more productively but employment law needs to be in the favour of business whilst ensuring, of course, that business acts in a fair and indiscriminate way. Get to know the PSSA Council members… Council member: Eric Swithenbank Company: Knoxford Ltd t/a ARX Security (also Portable Floormaker & Knoxford Fabrications) Current position: Managing Director – joined company in 2010 Years on PSSA Council: nearly 2 PSSA BULLETIN  |  ISSUE 2