SAFETY TOWER REACHES HEIGHT OF EXCELLENCE

Spanset Training

A Key aspect of effective safety training is to ensure trainees receive practical tuition in highly realistic settings which closely resemble the kind of situations they will face in real life. A safe, purpose-built training environment is a pre-requisite in achieving this.

Spanset UK is committed to ensuring its dedicated Training Facility in Middlewich, Cheshire is as realistic as possible and remains a state-of-the-art facility for best practice. This commitment to excellence has kept Spanset a world-leader in safety training.

Spanset’s training compound now includes a giant, three-walled multi-level structure which successfully combines the up-close visibility of controlled exposure to height with the realism of genuine outdoor training.

Last year, over 6,000 trainees earn their safety qualifications at Spanset UK Safety Training Centre and their success is thanks in part to the Training Compound.

The extra challenge afforded by reproducing the outdoor ‘at height’ situation of a real rescue or complex lifting manoeuvre is an important part of Spanset’s training methodology – there is no substitute for the real thing.

This ‘outdoor’ aspect of training is very important to the company. Genuine outdoor conditions mean a more meaningful and valuable experience for trainees, and the weatherproofed ‘three-walled’ design of the multi-level structure means that safety training can take place safely, even in difficult weather conditions.

In this highly-controlled environment, Spanset’s training staff can recreate a potentially dangerous situation in complete safety, to the benefit of all students.

The training compound also includes four on-site classrooms so that theory and practice can be taught together with travel time between lessons and practicals kept to the absolute minimum.

With these facilities sited adjacent to Spanset UK’s headquarters, the company offers a comprehensive training experience without a second wasted.

Everything Spanset needs to deliver excellence in terms of safety training is on site, be it indoor classwork or outdoor practical sling work. Moreover, a wide range of Spanset’s equipment is manufactured in an adjoining building and trainees are invited to visit the factory and see how their safety equipment is made.

Spanset UK has eight professional full-time instructors and teaches over 6,000 students every year. Each trainer has undergone a rigorous and formalized training tuition procedure to ensure they meet the high standards Spanset expects of its training staff.

Together the training team members have between them many decades of experience in training, allowing them to teach a wide range of courses to a wide range of sectors.

Spanset courses are tailored for:

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In addition to Rescue and working at height, Spanset offers a range of lifting training where lifting accessories such as hooks, clamps and eyebolts are used in a safe and efficient way. One particular course (Rigging and Lifting for work at Height (Telecoms)) has candidates lifting and fixing an antennae or dish to the Tower!

Furthermore, Spanset creates ‘tailor-made’ bespoke courses for companies with a special or unique situation which requires the expertise of a Spanset trainer. Such courses are offered at the client’s site if it is suitable, or at Spanset UK.

The company’s practical training centre was opened over a decade ago when an outdoor pylon was erected to help teach tower and mast training. Courses offered included Wood Pole Climbing/Rescue, Confined space rescue & evacuation and roof top safety with the aid of a dynamic, static & equipment testing tower and one indoor classroom and outside classroom. An indoor rope access area was added soon afterwards

Now, in addition to the new Tower, training courses also utilise a temporary scaffold structure to stage the appropriate training modules.

Looking forward, Spanset continues to expand the Training Compound to keep it at the forefront of Safety training best practice. A new Rigging Training Tower will be erected soon, further expanding the already wide range of courses available and keeping Spanset at the forefront of Safety Training.

At present, the issue of ‘suspension trauma’ is a topical one and one already addressed by Spanset – the company’s Gotcha Rescue range was specifically designed to minimise suspension trauma in rescue situations.

Similarly, Spanset’s best practice in training also takes suspension trauma into account.

In the past, safety training companies the world over would suspend a trainee by a rope as a routine part of the training. Now Spanset has created special ledges which allows a realistic training scenario to continue without putting the trainee in what is now regarded as a potentially dangerous situation.

Spanset has on site courses running daily. Spanset Training Facilities and training methodology have proven themselves to be superior than ‘place-of-work’ training in terms of quality of training, cost-effectiveness with a minimum of time taken to train course attendees.

Spanset’s commitment to excellence was recognised when it became the first training organization accredited by the BSI and registered to ISO 9001.

Always innovating and developing best practice, this tradition of excellence looks set to continue at Spanset for a very long time.

 

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For further information contact:

Eunice Williams
Marketing Manager
SpanSet Limited
Telford Way
Middlewich
Cheshire
CW10 0HX

Tel: (01606) 737494
Fax: (01606) 737502
Email: ewilliams@spanset.co.uk