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New Shea Drains and Sewers Training Programme launched
The National Association of Drainage Contractors (NADC) and Energy & Utility Skills have announced the launch of a new Safety, Health and Environmental Awareness (SHEA) training programme for the drainage and sewer industry. The new scheme is an addition to the Energy & Utility Skills SHEA programme that is already in place for the water, power, gas and waste industries, making a complete set for the utilities sector.
All Energy & Utility Skills SHEA schemes have common modules at their core upon which the industry specific modules are layered. This means a consistency of approach towards health and safety across the energy & utilities sector which in turn ensures a consistent and reliable approach.
As with all other schemes in Energy & Utility Skills’ SHEA portfolio, the new Drains and Sewers training course is a Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Partner Card scheme, giving all those who hold a SHEA Drains and Sewers EUSR registration access to CSCS controlled sites. The scheme is designed for all persons who operate in an operational environment including supervisors and management. The new scheme is part of the established Energy & Utility Skills SHEA portfolio of schemes for the water, gas, power as well as the telecommunications, Waste and Resource Management, and Cross-Country Pipeline (CCP). industries.
The scheme has been developed by Energy & Utility Skills in collaboration with NADC who have provided the specialist content for the drainage and sewer specific modules. It has been a long-held ambition within NADC to produce an industry specific course that would also offer successful candidates a CSCS card for operating on construction sites. NADC believes that this is something of a game changer for the industry and will prove extremely popular amongst contractors.
The Association regards the introduction of a Safety Health and Environmental Awareness scheme as fundamental to the creation of the competency framework that will be introduced as a key element of the DrainSafe scheme being launched in 2021. The scheme will also become a requirement for NADC
membership moving forward, underpinning the existing and future suite of Energy & Utility Skills courses that are offered by NADC.
The current Energy & Utility Skills courses offered by NADC cover Confined Spaces, Water Jetting, CCTV and Electro-Mechanical repairs. An Excavation and Repair course will soon be submitted to Energy & Utility Skills for accreditation, and an Energy & Utility Skills patching and lining course for NADC is scheduled to be available, either as a single course or in two separate modules, by year end.
In addition, work is proceeding on the creation of a Tankering and Vacuuming course and also a Sweeping course. This range of courses will be complemented by a Drain Mapping course in 2021.
NADC views its relationship with Energy & Utility Skills as being fundamental to underpinning quality and consistency of skills and competency being delivered in our industry against the background of the use of increasingly sophisticated, and potentially dangerous, machinery and equipment. It follows that safety and health awareness is core to all of the specialist courses.
NADC is also very focused on the quality
delivery of training to the drainage industry and as a result, all NADC trainers must comply with Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) which set out the qualifications that the trainers themselves should carry. All NADC recognised trainers must be approved by the NADC Training Committee and are subject to annual audit by the approved NADC external verifier. It is vital that candidates have complete confidence in the trainers that are conducting NADC courses and that there is consistency in course delivery regardless of whether the training takes place in England, Wales, Scotland or Ireland.
To book a place on the new SHEA Drains and Sewers course please contact Jayne either by e-mail (
jayne@nadc.org.uk) or by calling on 0800 0933 507 (free from mobiles as well as landlines) and asking for Jayne.
New board appointments at CMOStores
CMOStores has announced two changes to its senior board, with Sue Packer appointed as managing director of the online construction products merchant. Dean Murray has also been appointed as executive chairman at the Plymouth-based e- commerce company, which recently announced impressive results for the first half of 2020.
Sue Packer becomes one of just a handful of female managing directors within the building merchant industry; an important step in a sector that has long signalled its intention to
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increase diversity. Sue previously served as CMOStores’s chief financial officer for two years, after joining the company from RS Connect Group. Sue has held a number of CFO roles, including five years with Vodafone Automotive UK.
Dean Murray joined CMOStores as chairman in 2017 after the company secured investment from private equity house Key Capital Partners (KCP). He had previously held the role of chairman at Gear4Music, another KCP-backed enterprise, where he was instrumental in growing sales from £10 million to £55 million
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