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First Candidates in the UK

We are pleased to announce that a group of their Certificate in Leakage Detection candidates are the first in the country to complete the qualification. All the candidates work for Mouchel and have been working towards there qualifications for the past 6 months. Each candidate has had to build a portfolio or evidence as well as been observed within the workplace carrying out tasks within the rem...

New National Qualifications Offer A Credible Alternative

New qualifications on the market are making it easier to gain nationally recognised accreditation after attending shorter courses and successfully completing an in centre assessment.

There are new water industry qualifications available now that enable people to have their skills formally recognised.

Short training courses followed by assessment for a variety of water industry subjects are o...

Merit Skills Becomes Approved Provider For Jointing Composite Barrier Pipes

Merit Skills is please to announced that they are the approved provider for GPS Protecta Line - Jointing of Composite Barrier Pipes.

Furthermore after successful trials Anglian Water have extended the electrofusion joining of Proctecta-Line water mains to self lay organisations as well.

Information regarding traiing and assessment can be found under the [water networks sections of our websit...

SSSTS Courses Running

The Site Supervisors Safety Training Scheme commonly known as SSSTS is now being run from our training centre in Yaxley due to popular demand from both existing and new clients.

Maria Fulluck of Merit Skills said 'being able expand our product portfolio is fantastic, it is vital that we listen to our customers and respond with solution which is both value for money and a quality offering.'

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Asbestos - Can Your Team Recognise the Risks?

The HSE (Health and Safety Executive has announced this week that Marks and Spencer plc and two of its contractors have been convicted for putting members of the public, staff and construction workers at risk of exposure to asbestos-containing materials during the refurbishment of two stores.

Asbestos is the biggest single cause of work-related deaths in the U...

Companies fined £640,000 for double deaths in a confined space

Two companies have been fined a total of £640,000 following the death of two fish farm workers on a barge moored at a salmon farm on Loch Creran, Argyll & Bute.

Scottish Sea Farms worker, Campbell Files and engineer Arthur Raikes - employed by Logan Inglis Limited, Cumbernauld - were fixing a hydraulic crane on the barge when they went below deck to find cabling and pipework.

The oxygen leve...

Renew Street Works Qualifications with Merit Skills

Following changes in legislation on 6th April 2011, it is now mandatory for those wanting to renew their street works qualifications and apply for SWQR cards to undertake a reassessment.

Each reassessment paper consists of a 10 question multiple choice exam paper which must be completed within a 30 minute period. The pass rate has been set at 80%.

We offer a range of solutions to suit the ne...

Do You Need Quality Confined Spaces Training?

Merit Skills gained City and Guilds approval to train and asses candidates in Working in Confined Spaces back in April 2011. Following the installation of a purpose built confined space to support practical training and assessment. The new facility meets all of the new requirements set out by City and Guilds for the 6150 scheme.

Since then the confined spaces training provision has gone from s...

Merit Skills Secures New Premises

Merit Skill is pleased to announce that today is Moving Day!

Merit Skills has secured new premises which means that we now have training and meeting rooms coupled with space to carry out practical training such as streetworks, confined spaces and much more.

In conjunction with moving to new premises we have also launched a new 2011 open course training calendar. Our training calendar incorpo...

Train to Gain Funding Secured

Merit Skills Ltd has successfully been awarded Train to Gain funding for 2010-2011.

The team are really pleased to have secured this funding as it will allow them to offer funding to those clients wishing to support their employees through NVQs.

Maria Fulluck of Merit Skills commented "successfully securing Train to Gain funding for NVQ programmes as well as Apprenticeship funding is a real ...

First Approved Provider for Safe Control of Mains Connections by EUSR

WaterSkills is excited to announce that we are the first in the country to have our Safe Control of Mains Connections programme approved by the Energy and Utility Skills Register (EUSR).

As of 1st April 2010 the final connection of a water company's main to a new site main has become a contestable activity, giving accredited self lay organisations (SLOs) the opportunity to carry out routine in...

Are you complying with HSE Code of Practice for Legionella Control?

Following the recent sad news reports from South Wales, there is no better time to check that you are complying with The control of legionella bacteria in water systems - Approved Code of Practice and guidance L8 published by the HSE.

There has been 22 people linked to the outbreak of leg...