Training is an integral part of McDevitt Electrical & Controls. It ensures our staff are aware of requirements from both McDevitt standards and legislation. The entire day is booked out in our staff’s calendars to provide support and a refresh on training which qualifies them to uphold our standards of both work and training.

The day is hosted in our training rooms and delivered by Dean from Unicorn Solutions. Unicorn Solutions is a Health and Safety consultancy that approves our safety standards and delivers workshops to our staff. Workshops include health and safety, which is mandatory for all staff, as well as training for our specialist staff, like our on-site engineers.

Health and Safety is mandatory for all employees. The training revisits fundamental elements of health and safety like identifying hazards, risk assessments, equipment handling and injury management. We believe in a preventive and not reactive approach to health and safety. This approach means that we train our staff to recognise potential hazards and practise control measures to prioritise preventing accidents rather than responding when issues occur. We recognise that accidents do happen, but believe that prevention is key to minimisation; Staff are trained to control accidents calmly, safely and efficiently. Other health and safety training covered included manual handling and working from heights.

Some of our workforce are regularly out, on-site assisting clients with electrical works at their premises. Some of this work can be on brand-new buildings. Other work can include electrical refitting (often on older buildings) and electrical issues that we repair and create improvements for the future.

Our on-site engineers had further training for emergency first aid. Ensuring our engineers are up to date on this is crucial. Emergency First Aid empowers them to feel safer and more equipt whilst on the road, in case of emergencies. 

First aid training is just as crucial in the workplace. Some of our staff, who are based in our workshop, received first aid training for the workplace. A First Aid qualification allows them to feel more confident in their place of work. First aid also ensures our staff are more aware of health and conscious of potential issues and how to handle them. 

Jayne Hodson, our office manager, is in charge of ensuring all of our staff are aware, knowledgeable, and trained in things like health and safety. She liaises with our health and safety consultants and ensures we are in line with requirements and legislation, this allows us to uphold the high standards that we are proud of. 

“The company invest in training and very much see the importance and value of maintaining a skilled and safe workforce”

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