In brief

• The Health and Safety Executive has urged companies to ignore information from three firms that purport to regulate health and safety legislation and are demanding up to £249 to ensure that companies comply with the law. The HSE has received hundreds of complaints about: the Health and Safety Enforcement Agency, based in Liverpool; the Health and Safety Compliance Agency, in Manchester; and the Health and Safety Registration Enforcement Division in Rochdale.

• The US embedded networking supplier Ember has signed a technology licensing deal with Cambridge Consultants giving it access to CCL`s ZigBee wireless networking chip technology. The CCL development team has joined Ember, which will have an expanded European operation based at CCL`s Cambridge site.