An appointment with… Simon Allan-Brooks, chief commercial officer at Arco: Experts in Safety

When a business has been around as long as Arco, it’s safe to assume it will have seen plenty of change. Throughout its 140-year history, the Hull-based safety specialist’s ability to adapt has been key to its enduring success, and the past few years have been no exception. In 2022, as the world emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic, Guy Bruce took the helm as Arco’s new chief executive, setting...

Arco signs up to inclusive PPE charter

Hull-based Arco, the UK’s leading provider of safety products and services, has signed up to a new charter calling for inclusivity in workplace PPE. The Protection for Everyone Charter, launched by health and safety news publisher SHP, calls for well-fitting personal protective equipment (PPE) to be seen not just as best practice, but as the minimum standard for all. Arco is one of the first...

Arco volunteers give up 1,000 hours for good causes

Kind-hearted staff at Hull-based safety giant Arco have carried out almost 1,000 hours of voluntary work over the past year. Since July last year, 169 Arco colleagues have contributed a total of 966 hours to volunteering in their communities, supporting many different organisations, including Age UK and the Royal British Legion. Everyone who works for Arco is encouraged to take two paid days out...

Hull City Council encourages residents to ‘be a Bike Hero’ this National Bike Week

A series of events has been planned to promote cycling in Hull in celebration of Bike Week (June 10-16). Organised by national charity, Cycling UK, Bike Week is the UK’s biggest awareness raising moment of the year for cycling and a chance to highlight all the benefits that riding a bike can bring, both for health and wellbeing and more widely in terms of the positive impact it has communities...

Arco partners with Mental Health Foundation to protect heads ‘inside and out’

Hull-based Arco has pledged to donate a share of profits from its hard hat sales to the Mental Health Foundation, as part of a new partnership to “protect heads inside and out”. From next month, the UK's leading safety experts will donate 10% of all profits from sales of own-brand hard hats to the UK’s leading charity for mental health. Arco announced the partnership today as part of Mental...