Health Estate Journal reports on the work of Asset Skills, the Sector Skills Council whose aim is to raise productivity by driving up standards and skills in the facilities management sector by ensuring employer input into qualifications and training.
Why then, when most people are asked to define FM, are the answers often inconclusive and rarely consistent, begging the questions: “Before we can raise skills standards do we need to raise the profile of FM itself?” “How many talented young people considering career options do not turn to FM because they have no idea of what it is?”
Asset Skills is working on a number of initiatives that will address the development of skills and training within the sector as well as the challenges it faces for the future, while at the same time increasing and developing its profile.
Key functions
With the variety of definitions for FM, one of the first steps for the company was to identify the key functions undertaken within FM and encapsulate them within one key statement, which has been identified as: “The integration of support activities essential to the successful performance of any organisation”.
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