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VWT UK appoints new Head of Sales for the Municipal and Industrial Sectors
Veolia Water Technologies UK (VWT UK) has recently appointeda new Headof Sales for the Municipal and Industrial sectors, Daniel Parry. Now responsible for the sales and proposal teams for all wastewater opportunities, Daniel will focus on strengthening VWT UK’s position as the leading water and wastewater treatment and technologies solutions provider.
Daniel began his career with international infrastructure group Balfour Beatty, working his way up to Bid Manager by 2008. In this role, Daniel worked on key tenders for biomass, gasification and energy to waste projects, overseeing a multi-discipline team covering planning, environmental compliance, landscape design and structural services.
With a wealth of knowledge and project management experience under his belt, in 2013 Daniel joined VWT UK as an Industrial Proposal
Manager, before progressing to Industrial Sales Manager and now to Head of Sales - Municipal and Industrial. In his new role, he will oversee a team of three business development managers and three proposal engineers, working to secure new business opportunities for VWT UK.
Daniel commented: “To best serve our customers, I want to ensure that the municipal and industrial teams are kept well informed on the latest trends and leading issues in the market today. Specifically, as we plan for the future, we will be looking to focus on phosphorus removal technologies and emerging pollutants, two key issues facing the market at the moment.
“I will also be looking to engage early on with our customers who have wastewater needs to ensure we can provide a quick and cost- effective solution. As part of this, I am excited to help the team generate a more hands-on
Daniel Parry
support system approach in order to improve service outcomes for all of our customers.”
Morrison Utility Services turns to virtual reality for Safety Training
Using innovative 360-degree virtual reality (VR) technology, Morrison Utility Services, a part ofMGroup Services, has joinedforces with behavioural safety specialists, 360safe VR, to develop and produce pioneering training films that can be viewed via VR headsets.
The introduction of the 360-degree VR training is designed to complement the existing blend of behavioural safety training methods deployed across Morrison Utility Services. The technology provides participants with the benefit of immersive and engaging training sessions that place the viewer in authentic, ‘high-risk’ occupational scenarios, with no danger to themselves or others.
Apioneering VR content synchronisation app enables the VR films to be controlled and monitored from a central console to up to 8 individual VR headsets. The films are developed
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way. Participants will feel as though they have genuinely experienced the scenario which is a highly-effective way to deliver powerful behavioural change.”
Andy Carter, Director of IT, Innovation and Improvement, commented: “This use of VR technology provides a good example of the important role that innovation plays in our training strategy. The creation of VR training films will enable us to raise awareness and understanding of difficult, but extremely important, safety themes by placing our
in-house using Morrison Utility Services people in scripted behavioural safety scenarios.
Paul Kerridge, Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Director, commented: “The adoption of 360-degree VR technology is allowing Morrison Utility Services to deliver hugely important behavioural and occupational safety messages in an engaging, impactful, yet completely safe,
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people in an authentic, engaging and completely safe virtual environment. The solution also provides the capability to run site-specific pre-training surveys, followed by post-training surveys, to measure changes in understanding and attitudes to important areas such as site safety and occupational road risk.”
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