Global Academy, the training division of the Global HSE Group, has launched three new fire safety qualifications designed to equip professionals with the practical skills and knowledge they require to ensure fire safety compliance. Complementing the existing course focused on Fire Door Inspection, each of the new courses feature three days of practical experience.
Accredited by the Awarding Body of the Built Environment (ABBE), the courses afford national recognition and demonstrate the Global HSE Group’s ongoing drive for excellence and the enhancement of professional knowledge in the fire safety sector.
The new training courses are as follows:
*Understanding and Installing Passive Fire Protection
*Understanding, Maintaining and Repairing Fire Doors
*Understanding and Installing Fire Doors
All of these courses are taught by Chris Sharman, head of technical and training at the Global Academy, alongside a team of experienced passive fire protection installers. The course frameworks have been meticulously designed by passive fire safety experts from the Global HSE Group, thereby ensuring a comprehensive and effective learning experience.
Further, the courses are being led by Ross O’Loughlin (director of technical services and previously the Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Defence’s fire training school) and were put together by Nigel Craven, who was the Group manager at the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
Ross O’Loughlin informed Fire Safety Matters: “At the Global HSE Group, we absolutely recognise that the industry requires a level of competency that can be proven. We are taking the right steps to professionalise an area of construction that has been neglected.”
O’Loughlin continued: “Passive fire systems installation is a critical element. If system installers don’t fully appreciate the need and relevance of their work in this area, it follows that they will not take the care and effort required. We want to underpin positive change across the industry. As such, we’ve been willing to put in the hard yards to develop brand new qualifications that are fit for purpose and designed with the installer in mind.”
In conclusion, O’Loughlin observed: “We’re proud to have combined our contracting division’s experience and our fire engineering consultancy’s academic input in order to create an approach to training that delivers tangible competence.” The Global Academy’s training facility in Bingham has recently upgraded with state-of-the-art training equipment, fire doors, passive fire installations and more to support the delivery of these new courses.
Global HSE Group focuses on comprehensive fire safety solutions, specialising in passive fire protection and technical fire consultancy.
