NEWS STA Connect With Marriott Hotels
Marriott Hotels International has recently gone live with STAadmin.
co.uk, STA’s online leisure management system, which has been designed to give managers access to real time health and safety data.
This announcement follows the success of the initial 18-month pilot at Marriott, with a tailored version of
STAadmin.co.uk now fully embedded into the hotel group’s entire UK estate. As a result, senior managers can now automatically track staff qualifications and on-going training needs with STAadmin.
co.uk, and are able to carry-out online safety audits to support the company’s own internal health and safety practices. Theo Millward, STA’s Operations Director, who has worked closely with Marriott from the start said:
“STAadmin has served to centralise and consolidate data across the group’s Leisure,
Spa and Golf divisions, and provides a unique infrastructure for managers to accurately track and report on operational safety, compliance, water quality, staff training and qualifications.” STA has created the ‘Qualifications and Ongoing Training’ service so that it is capable of tracking any qualification from any industry, but it is unique in that it also fully integrates with STA’s live qualifications database. Theo explains: “By linking with our qualifications database, all Marriott associates who hold STA qualifications will automatically be updated on STAadmin. Plus,
Marriott’s
managers will never need to log on; the system will automatically
send a reminder email when they need to take action, with revalidation reminders sent up to six months in advance. What’s more, when operators do log on, years of data from thousands of staff can be mined in seconds saving them valuable time and effort maintaining paper records. Plus, should the worst happen, users have peace of mind that records can be interrogated anytime from anywhere with an internet connection.” STAadmin’s ‘Safety Audit Management’ service promotes best practice and provides valuable evidence to support external
quality assessments, including Quest. It works by providing a series of online assessments which leisure facilities can use to monitor all areas of operational safety proactively. The system tracks improvements made, alerts management to serious errors and offers guidance on ways to achieve required safety levels. For further information on
STAadmin.co.uk, or to arrange a free trial visit
www.staadmin.
co.uk Prices start from as little as 50p per employee per month.
STAadmin.co.uk has also been adopted by Australian Swimming Coaching and Teachers Association, De Vere, Tempus Leisure and Inspire Leisure.
STA 01922 645097
www.sta.co.uk
105th ISPE Seminar Includes Awards, AGM, New President And More!
The 105th one-day ISPE seminar took place on 10 October at the Watermill Hotel in Hertfordshire and as well as providing valuable seminars for its attendees, was also the platform for the organisation’s Awards and AGM which saw the appointment of a new President in Allen Wilson FISPE. The day started with a session from John Cheek MISPE(Dip.) on Servicing and Maintenance Requirements in Type 1 & Type 2 Swimming Pools. The presentation was followed with a talk on Type 3 Pools by Allen Wilson FISPE. Both explained what sort of things an engineer should be checking as part of a routine servicing visit and explained a check-list should be utilised. After lunch, Allen Wilson FISPE was inaugurated as the new ISPE President with Howard Gosling FISPE handing over the reins. Allen’s first job in his new role was to hold the AGM, part of which included the election of three new Council Members to serve as Directors on the Institute’s Council of Management: Colin Day MISPE, Colin Jenkinson MISPE and Mike Shuff MISPE. With AGM matters concluded, attention turned towards the awards. The first award a new Institute President makes is to the Immediate Past-President and the new ISPE President presented outgoing President, Howard Gosling, with a Gold ISPE Past-
12 December 2013 SPN President’s badge.
Andy Lester TnISPE(Cert.) of I J Cannings was then awarded The Jim Johnson Filtration Shield, an honour given either for a Technical Paper, or Seminar presentation on the subject of Filtration, or to the student that submits the best examination paper on that subject.
The Selwyn Mindel
Award for Performance & Achievement was
posthumously awarded to Ray Burt who sadly died earlier this
John Cheek MISPE(Dip.) discusses ‘Servicing and Maintenance Requirements in Type 1 & Type 2 Swimming Pools’
year. The award is presented to individuals for outstanding service to the Institute. Ray had contributed a great deal to many filtration workshops and gave numerous presentations with Chris Carr at Institute Seminars and SPATEX exhibitions.
Two further awards will be presented at a
later date as the recipients were unable to be present. They are The Gartside Cup, for the Student of the Year and The Peter Horne Memorial Cup.
Moving back to the seminars, Chris Carr FISPE then looked at the requirements when servicing pumps and filters and gave useful tips, help and advice and a useful, informative and busy day concluded. For more information on the ISPE and the seminars they run, please visit their website or the Institute will be running an extensive workshop programme at SPATEX 2014 in Coventry.
ISPE
01603 499959
www.ispe.co.uk
Chris Carr FISPE looked at the requirements when servicing pumps and filters
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