PSSA Newsletter - June 2019

ISSUE 23 June 2019  | NEWS – 3 – Highway Care make strategic leadership appointment Neil Levett is a high achieving senior leader with an impressive track record within the highways sector. Neil joined his family business, Alad Ltd in 1995. He successfully guided the business to be part of a triple million-pound turnover which included Highways Magazine, Highways on Fridays, Smart Highways, 7Days in ITS and Seeing is Believing (now Traffex Live). Neil has been in the highways industry for many years making him an extremely credible and well-placed person to join the Highway Care team to bring forward their innovative solutions for a safer future. Highway Care is a leading supplier and installer of specialist highway and security, vehicle restraint systems and mobile traffic products for the highway safety industry. Over the past 40 years, Highway Care has remained at the forefront of innovative road safety solutions; continuing to push boundaries and break new grounds as the first company to introduce new road safety solutions into the UK such as the first Lorry Mounted Crash Cushion, the first Mobile Light Arrow and Mobile Red X along with the first P4 End Terminal. Neil Levett, Director, Levett Business Services said, “I was delighted to be invited by Highway Care to join their senior leadership team to conduct a 360-degree delivery analysis and future growth strategy. Their offering is certainly widely known and respected (both domestically and internationally) and we will seek to evolve and develop this reputation as a safety innovator and key service partner for Tier 1 and 2 delivery contractors on some of the UK’s most prestigious projects.” Ben Duncker, Commercial Director, Highway Care, “We are delighted to have this opportunity to work with Neil, someone with many years’ experience in the highways sector as well as intrinsic knowledge of Highway Care throughout the years, on our brand enhancement and core business development projects.” Neil Levett is a high achieving senior leader with an impressive track record within the highways sector Viva Las Vegas! ISCWest 2019 is in the industry’s rear-view mirror, and what a show it was! The busy three days in Las Vegas in April offered a preview of exciting technologies and industry trends for the coming year. The show attracted more than 30,000 professionals across the security sector. With physical security representatives from manufacturers, installers and consultants, this was an opportunity to increase worldwide awareness of the PSSA brand and perimeter security standards. PSSA Chairman Paul Jeffrey attended the event on behalf of the PSSA. Paul reported a successful show for the association, he said,“With such a large exhibition I am delighted with the high number of strong expressions of interest received - with applications already processing from a number of potential members. Hopefully more will follow.” Paul added, “During the event I gave a speech to the Security Industry Association (SIA), which is the United States trade association for global security providers. The SIA have a new sub-committee for high security perimeter products and requested that the PSSA gave a presentation. This provided us with the opportunity to communicate to many manufacturers, installers and Government officials. Delegates in the audience showed a great deal of interest in the PSSA. It was also noted that the UK market lead the way in perimeter products, which was encouraging for PSSA members looking to expand in the region.” Paul concluded, “The next steps will be to look at how forging a link between the PSSA and SIA will be mutually beneficial to both associations.” ISC West provided the opportunity to increase worldwide awareness of the PSSA brand