Eastwood Park will be running two fire safety courses this month – ‘Firecode for healthcare premises’ (11-13 June), and ‘Fire risk assessment for healthcare premises’ (25-27 June). Paul Beech, Fire Safety tutor, Eastwood Park Training says: “It is common for healthcare managers to have their own fire safety staff undertake fire risk assessments in complex premises; yet many have only limited experience in this area, and few have formal qualifications.
Only recently has a UKAS-approved third party accreditation scheme been introduced in the UK. The importance of detailed fire risk assessments cannot be emphasised enough.” Eastwood Park has also introduced a new ‘Essentials for Estates’ course (the next one runs in October) offering existing and aspiring estates and facilities managers ‘the chance to improve their existing core skills, and to gain new tools and guidance to enable them to operate more effectively in today’s challenging, changing, healthcare environment’. Areas covered by the course include:
• Managing budgets and staff.
• Meeting customers’ expectations.
• Understanding and fulfilling duty of care to staff, patients, and site visitors.
• Awareness of an organisation’s obligations to HTM/CFPP guidelines.
• Identifying and managing estates risks.
• Scoping and planning maintenance/ minor works.
• Performance measures.
• Planning for carbon reduction.
