Checkmate Fire Solutions Continue To Invest In The Training And Development Of Staff

Continuing to invest in the training and development of colleagues, Checkmate Fire Solutions (Checkmate Fire) is delighted to finish 2021 in style – with a veritable bouquet of new qualifications and accreditations!

As an ongoing process, the company ensures that their people have the opportunity to further both their careers and their expertise within the business. Through additional training and qualifications, Checkmate Fire aim to have the most motivated and knowledgeable team possible – and they’re making some great strides.

Mentioned below are some recent achievements from within the ever-expanding Checkmate team:

IOSH Managing Safely

Huge congratulations to Joe Stevens, Joshua Fish, Hayley Goodall and Darren Dean on achieving their IOSH Managing Safely accreditation. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is the world’s largest health and safety membership body, with over 44000 members in 99 countries.

As a three-day course, ‘Managing Safely’ provides contracts managers and supervisors with the knowledge and skills they need to manage health and safety within their teams, covering responsibilities, such as hazard identification, assessing and controlling risks, accident investigation and measuring performance.

Driving the team’s health and safety performance

This process will help improve the safety awareness culture in Checkmate and across our nationwide sites"

Subsequently, this gives managers the confidence to drive health and safety performance within their teams and to improve the health and safety culture of their organization as a whole.

Colin Campbell, the Head of Health and Safety, said “Darren, Joe, Hayley and Josh have been working hard in developing their health and safety knowledge, and they fully deserve the recognition achieved on successful course completion! This process will help improve the safety awareness culture in Checkmate and across our nationwide sites.”

ASFP Level 1 in Passive Fire Protection

‘The Association for Specialist Fire Protection Foundation Course in Passive Fire Protection’ provides essential knowledge and understanding of this key fire protection specialism.

In addition to their site staff and management, Checkmate Fire is dedicated to ensuring all their administrative and commercial colleagues are fully aware of industry standards. They think it’s important for everyone in the business, whatever their role, to know what they do and why. As a result, they have a fantastic 100% pass rate - with almost everyone in the business taking the exam within their first 3 months at Checkmate Fire.

Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS)

Congratulations to the incredible active fire counterpart, Rosse Systems, who have been successful in receiving a full CHAS accreditation renewal. The Contractors Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (CHAS) is the United Kingdom’s leading authority on health and safety and compliance and provides reassurance to their clients that health and safety are of the utmost importance.

As a keen believer in championing continual progression and internal development, John Lewthwaite, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Checkmate Fire, stated “At Checkmate, we are committed to investing in people and automating the heck out of everything. This is something we’ve really built upon, over the last 18 months, and we look forward to even more success in the New Year. A big well done to all our dedicated people, who continue to demonstrate the Checkmate Way!”