A combination of spurious skill claims and lack of proper training can be toxic and cause immense reputational damage. This is the sort of thing that keeps operations managers in businesses that employ service engineers awake at night. In an ideal world all service engineers would have Steve Jobs’s quote on quality of work in mind: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of…
Recently, at a major UK steel plant, a visiting service engineer, lacking in electrical awareness, tripped out the power supply . A qualified electrician had to be called in to reset the breakers. A direct consequence was that the steel plant found on checking that the service company had never undertaken any electrical awareness training for its engineers. They now had to implement it as a…
How many companies are truly an extension of their founder’s beliefs and skills? Tinson Training is such a company. The brainchild of Brian Tinson and after a decade of growth still very much in his image. The small team that has grown up around him share his values and his belief in the ups killing power of truly engaging electrical and plumbing maintenance training. Brian is a Yorkshireman…
Tinson Training is 10 years old. I started the business with a view to providing high quality training that supplies a useful service to businesses. That mission has not changed and the only difference today is that I know I have succeeded in doing what I set out to do. Many of our customers return for further business and that is the obvious indicator that they are happy with what we have done…
I was recently asked to deliver an Electrical Awareness course at a company that had just had some new equipment delivered ready for commissioning. It turned out to be a great opportunity to combine theory and practice in a real work context. I was able to flex the course so that we could relate elements of it to the equipment, working out how cables might run and what connected in what order to…
It may seem obvious that staff will take ownership of their work and how the care and quality of what they do may effect their colleagues and their employer; not to mention their own safety. Seemingly for many it is not. My experience of delivering training in electrical awareness to a wide range of businesses and attendees has shown me that the instinctive default setting is to do whatever they…
We recently worked with a major British technology company who produce, amongst other high tech kit, parts for the Particle Accelerator at CERN. We were training in electrical awareness software engineers with PHDs in physics. When your day to day focus is working in the world of the barely comprehensible the practicalities of basic electrical practice can be overlooked. This is our experience in…
During training course we will discuss a range of topics and that will often include safe systems of work and appropriate tools to use. Whilst we are not consultants we do consider ourselves as a valuable source of information that allows people to increase their abilities whilst staying safe.
The key reason we deliver training courses is to keep people safe from the dangers of electricity. Businesses want to improve their efficiency and flexibility by encouraging their staff to carry out some electrical repairs – but never at the risk of workers’ safety. During courses we discuss the effects and potential consequences of electrical accidents and, of course, delegates often…
