As one of the South’s leading specialists and confined space rescue providers, Alpha Training Managing Director, Shaun Jackaman and instructor Andrew Meade were invited to give a presentation about confined spaces, working in confined spaces, and confined space rescue training.

http://www.iosh.co.uk/branches/south_downs/branch_events/branch_events_2012/confined_space_training.aspx

The IOSH is the Chartered body for health and safety professionals. With more than 40,000 individual members, they are the biggest professional health and safety organisation in the world.

Alpha Training are currently working on their brand new confined space training and rescue facility at their head office in Arundel, West Sussex. They will also soon be City and Guilds accredited to run confined space 6150 courses – the only commercial approved centre in the South East!

For further information on Alpha Training and their Confined Space training days, please visit their website.

A number of people are killed or seriously injured in the UK each year in confined spaces. These occur across a wide range of industries, from those involving complex plant through simple storage vessels.
Under domestic law (the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974) employers are responsible for ensuring the safety of their employees and others. This responsibility is reinforced by regulations.

Safe work in confined spaces. Confined Spaces Regulations 1997

Confined Space Training specialists, Alpha Training, have recently launched Rescue 2 – a new dedicated technical rescue service providing teams of professional, current serving front line emergency service personnel or technical rescue specialists.

Rescue 2 can provide a safety and rescue team provision for most industries and environments. Their minimum team size is 3 rescue technicians. They can provide much larger teams, or multiple teams if required.

For further information on Rescue 2 – please call 01903 871381, or email info@alphahealthandsafety.com

The Alpha training team will be providing working at height courses nationally for the company, ensuring that their employees are aware of the latest working at height safety techniques, and also that Rentokil conform to the latest employer legislation.

Rentokil is unique in that it maintains a network of more than 600 pest control and property care technicians right across the UK.

The Work at Height Regulations 2005 came into force on 6 April 2005. The Regulations will apply to all work at height where there is a risk of a fall liable to cause injury.  The Regulations place duties on employers, the self-employed, and any person that controls the work of others (for example, facilities managers or building owners who may contract others to work at height).

For further information on Alpha Training’s Working at Height courses, visit our website, or call 01903 871381.

Congratulations to: Andrew Meade, Andrew Scotting, Anthony Cottrell, Paul Allison, Roger Gumbrill and Rob Dipper.

The Rope Rescue Operator course gives students a thorough introduction and grounding in all of the basic elements of work at height, rope access and rope rescue and prepares them for a role within a rope rescue team working under a rope rescue supervisor. Students will be able to make themselves safe on roof tops, cliff tops and steel structures using a combination of safety connections. They will be able to reach casualties by ascending or descending rope access systems and construct a range of rescue systems appropriate to the situation.

The course is assessed by a written paper and practical tests throughout.

The course content meets the requirements of BS8454:2006.

For further information on Rescue2 services, please email info@alphahealthandsafety.com

This vacancy application process is now closed as of 12.00 midday on Friday the 9th or March 2012.