TRAINING ROUND-UP
One-day course responds to HTM demands
Immerse Training has responded to the release of the latest review of HTM 04-01: Safe water in healthcare premises, with a new one-day City & Guilds-accredited training course to address the DH requirement for all individuals working with healthcare water systems to undergo water hygiene training. The new ‘Water Hygiene Training in healthcare building water systems’ course will benefit all staff involved with water systems in healthcare settings, including those responsible for housekeeping tasks such as outlet flushing and the cleaning of washhand basins, maintenance staff, and those who define strategy and develop procedures. It addresses all 15 topics in the HTM 04-01 Part B guidance, and aligns with Immerse’s ‘Awareness and Management of Water Safety Plans in building water systems’ training. The courses have been developed by an AE (Water) with over 10 years’ experience in healthcare. Immerse Training (pictured is course administrator, Sue Dilworth), said: “Staff who undergo the training will be fully compliant with all legal requirements, and will thus be operating and maintaining safe, healthy water systems in healthcare premises.” Both courses can be delivered on site, and are ‘very competitively priced’.
Training ‘encourages a safety culture’ MGPS Services says it is ‘well-known in
the NHS and overseas’ for its independent approach to delivering high quality courses in medical gas system management and operation in a healthcare environment; its courses are ‘designed to encourage a safety culture, with patient safety at its heart’. The company said: “From offices in Bristol and a dedicated Technical Training Centre near Birmingham, we provide a comprehensive range of courses tailored to both national guidance and customers’ needs. We have training and assessment programmes to suit the needs of doctors, nurses, porters, Authorised and
Combating the risks of confined spaces
Competent Persons (MGPS), Quality Controllers (MGPS), project managers, and designers. Our courses are relevant, cost-effective, and delivered to the high standards one would expect from an ISO 9001-registered company. Scheduled courses range from one day ‘specials’, to a two week Authorised Person (MGPS) course offering a direct route to Engineering Technician registration. “We can also provide group courses at our Technical Training Centre, or your own venue, and are happy to develop fully bespoke solutions, based on organisations’ individual training objectives.”
Tuition offers ‘hands-on experience’ Recognising the need for more intensive
training this year, Eastwood Park has introduced several new courses on its recently published 2017-18 training calendar. For Competent and Authorised Persons working in HVAC systems there are two new three-day refresher courses, designed for those requiring a recap on skills and competencies for managing ventilation systems in healthcare premises. As with all of Eastwood Park’s HVAC training, the courses include practical activities, giving learners ‘hands-on’ experience. There are also two new short electrical
Develop Training warns that, all too frequently, incidents within confined spaces result in fatalities. The company added: “It seems there remains a chronic lack of awareness of the dangers of working in confined spaces. Employers, managers, and responsible persons, may face prosecution if they risk lives through failure to comply with current regulations. A confined space is one either fully or partially enclosed, with a foreseeable risk of fire, explosion, or loss of consciousness or suffocation to the entrant. It is estimated that between 15 and 30 deaths occur in confined spaces accidents annually. To be truly effective, training should involve practical, realistic experience of the conditions workers are likely to encounter.”
Steve Braund, marketing manager,
said: “Our confined spaces units train delegates on how to navigate the obstacles that arise from working in dark, cramped spaces, while providing procedural guidance to help reduce the risks.”
Develop Training has published a white paper examining the subject, free to download from its website. It can provide specialist confined spaces training at its seven training bases nationwide, or deliver on-site solutions via its mobile confined space training unit.
courses – on minor works compliance, and practical electrical fault finding. These sit alongside the new high voltage courses launched in 2016, and appearing on the calendar for the first time. Finally, ‘a unique suite’ of intensive courses addressing PFI, PAM, CQC, and energy management, has been designed to tackle some of the most current issues within healthcare.
With essential training in everything from infection control to core hospital engineering disciplines and estates and facilities management, Eastwood Park
says it ‘delivers courses to meet the latest regulations and HTM guidelines’. Trainer, Peter Handforth, is pictured with delegates on a low voltage training course.
March 2017 Health Estate Journal 57
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