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  • Dates:
  • Times: 13.00 - 16.30
  • Location: Leicester - TBC
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Fire safety in healthcare is not solely about the physical fire precautions provided; other important factors include the dependency of patients, fire hazards, management policies and the availability of sufficient and adequately trained staff. The Health Technical Memorandum 05-02 provides guidance to achieve a satisfactory standard of fire safety for the purpose of satisfying Part B of The Building Regulations. HTM 05-02 can be used in the design of new healthcare premises and extensions/alterations to existing healthcare buildings.  This course is designed to improve knowledge and understanding of HTM 05-02 and explain the alternative approach to fire safety that healthcare premises require.

CPD: This course counts for 3 hours CPD.

Cost: £75 + VAT including course materials

Course Content & Learning Outcomes:

  • Introduction to HTM 05-02
  • Principles of containment
  • Fire extinguishment requirements
  • Principles of evacuation
  • Progressive horizontal evacuation
  • Active and passive fire precautions
  • The requirements for compartment and sub-compartmentation
  • Design philosophy
  • Working examples

Testimonials:
“A good introduction and overview”
“The trainer’s knowledge and presentation was excellent.”
“A very informative and useful course.”

Who should attend:
Architects
Designers
Building control surveyors
Fire brigade

If you have any questions please contact the LABC team by email on learning@labc.co.uk or call us on 020 8616 8120.

 

Trainer profile

Tim Parrett

Tim is a Member of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Tim started his building control career at Shepway District Council and moved to Ashford in 1986. He was appointed as Head of Building Control in 2000 and in 2014 became Head of Development Delivery – managing a broad range of development related functions.

He is also Managing Director of ABC BC Ltd – a wholly owned LA Company- delivering  a wide  range of consultancy services to the industry.

Tim is the current chairman of the Kent Building Control Managers and Vice Chair of the South East Region of LABC.

A past chair of the LABC Training Working Group, Tim is keen to see LABC maintain its position as the market leading building control training provider.

He has lectured at South Kent College and Mid Kent College and regularly presents Continual Professional Development (CPD) seminars to private companies, the CIOB and other professional bodies.

Event overview

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  • Location: Bradford
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Event overview

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  • Times: 9.30 A.M.
  • Location: Westminster Archive
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Event overview

  • Dates:
  • Times: 12.30 - 16.30
  • Location: Leeds - TBC
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The LABC Quality Management System is ready to be implemented into your local authority. The QMS is written to ISO 9001:2015 and is being independently audited and certified by UKAS accredited Alcumus ISOQAR. 

LABC has appointed a full-time specialist Head of Standards, Tariq Abdoh, to help guide members, provide packaged support, monitor audits and publish aggregated reports/matrices.

Both the LABC Board and the Standards Committee are committed to the introduction of this externally and independently audited standards system for LABC. 

To make this easier and to support all members equitably, the Board has agreed that the first year’s QMS/ISO/Audit will be FREE and that any ongoing future annual charges will be subsidised (subject to review in 2020/2021).

We’re running ISO Implementation Training Days to provide you with the knowledge and confidence to successfully implement the LABC QMS into your local authority.

Course Content

Overview of Quality Management and its main principles with reference to the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) cycle within a Process-based Quality Management System. The purpose and structure of ISO 9001:2015.

A full presentation of LABC’s Quality Management system and all documents contained within it, this includes;

  • Quality Policy
  • Quality Manual
  • Procedures Manual
  • Risk Register
  • Enforcement Policy
  • Code of Conduct and Professional Ethics

It is important that all attendees raise questions throughout and participate to get maximum benefit from the course.

Course Learning Objectives

  • Knowledge and understanding of the purpose of a QMS
  • Understanding of the principles of quality management
  • Awareness of the International Quality Standard (ISO 9001:2015)
  • Familiarisation with LABC QMS
  • Review of all LABC Documented Procedures (Process Maps)
  • Importance of the LABC Competency framework and identification of training needs
  • How to conduct an internal audit and act on findings to drive improvement

Who Should Attend?

  • Heads of Building Control
  • Technical Support

Would you like to attend?

Click the button below to email Kirsty McKee and leave your details.

Register your interest now

Event overview

  • Dates:
  • Times: 10 A.M.
  • Location: Cotswold DC offices in Cirencester
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  • Location: Midland Hotel
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Are you up to speed on all elements of fire safety in high risk buildings?

Sorry - this event has already taken place. Register your interest for our next conference "Building a Safer Future – what will Dame Judith Hackitt’s final report mean to the construction industry?"

Join us at this essential CPD event taking place in Manchester on 22 March 2018.

Highlights from the fire conference programme include:

  • Dame Judith Hackitt’s interim report
  • Defining “high risk” buildings
  • Design and specification concerns
  • Structural safety in high rise
  • The fire fighter perspective

Tickets are just £130+VAT which includes lunch and refreshments.

Programme

09.30

Registration & Refreshments

  

09.55

Welcome to the conference

Phil Hammond, LABC

10.00

Hackitt Interim Report  - the key points that may affect professionals in the industry

Barry Turner, LABC

10.30

Scene setting - what is "high risk?"

David Ware, Fire Risk Consultancy

11.00 

Crowd Behaviour & Emergency Management

Anne Templeton, University of Kent

11.30

Structural Safety in High Rise

Richard Hill, Arup

Andrew Lawrence, Arup

12.00

Lunch & Networking

 

13.00

A better way to stop passing the buck and achieve better cover

Graham De Roy, Griffiths & Armour

13.30

Arups' current top 10 design and specification concerns

Paul Williams, Arup

14.00

What does the Grenfell Tower fire and the Hackitt review mean for the construction sector 

Emily Monastiriotis, Simmons and Simmons

14.30

We see this thousands of times - why?

Rob Burridge, LABC Warranty

Richard Smith, LABC Warranty

15.00

Networking & Refreshments

  

15.15

How fire fighters respond and what you've done that will hamper them

Merlyn Forrer, Greater Manchester Fire & Rescue Service

15.45

Should industry agree to limit who can work on high risk buildings?

 Peter O''Reilly, Institution of Fire Engineers

16.15

Conference summary and close

Phil Hammond, LABC

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Fire Safety Conference

Event overview

  • Dates:
  • Times: 09.00 - 16.30
  • Location: Leeds - TBC
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Good Building Control rarely results in formal action. But does your team really have the necessary skills and competence if formal action became necessary?

This course provides training from informal day to day enforcement activity, through to carrying out investigations and going to court when formal action is required.

It will cover enforcement in areas of the Building Regulations, Unauthorised Work and Initial Notices, with an overview of the relevant changes in the Building Safety Act 2022, Building Act 1984 and the Building Regulations 2010 (as amended) from the 1st of October 2023.

CPD: This course counts for 4 hours CPD.

Cost: £80+VAT 

Platform: This course will be held via Zoom and will run for 4.5 hours including time for breaks.

Course Content & Learning Outcomes:

  • Informal and formal enforcement
  • The Building Act delegated powers/rights of entry
  • Enforcement of Building Regulations - Enforcement Policy, Section 35 offences, Section 36 notices and the Stop and Compliance (35B &C) Notices in England.
  • How does the Building Safety Act change Enforcement for and by LA’s?
  • Action against Building Control? Including current Case Law
  • Enforcement of Unauthorised work and Regularisations
  • Initial Notices - Reversions
  • Planning and investigation - Police and Criminal Evidence Act, witness statements
  • Court processes - how to give evidence and what to expect.

Who should attend:

Building control managers
Principal and senior surveyors and team leaders
Building control surveyors
Practice managers, assistant building control surveyors
Trainees and apprentices

Trainer profile

Tim Parrett

Tim is a Member of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Tim started his building control career at Shepway District Council and moved to Ashford in 1986. He was appointed as Head of Building Control in 2000 and in 2014 became Head of Development Delivery – managing a broad range of development related functions.

He is also Managing Director of ABC BC Ltd – a wholly owned LA Company- delivering  a wide  range of consultancy services to the industry.

Tim is the current chairman of the Kent Building Control Managers and Vice Chair of the South East Region of LABC.

A past chair of the LABC Training Working Group, Tim is keen to see LABC maintain its position as the market leading building control training provider.

He has lectured at South Kent College and Mid Kent College and regularly presents Continual Professional Development (CPD) seminars to private companies, the CIOB and other professional bodies.

Event overview

  • Dates:
  • Times: 08:00 - 12:00
  • Location: The Hamworthy Club
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Venue information

The Hamworthy Club
Magna Road Canford Magna
BH21 3AP Wimborne, DOR
Deyrnas Unedig

Event details

Registration to take place at 08:00 to start at 08:30

Registration, tea & bacon rolls (please advise for vegetarian alternate)

Introduction

Drainage & water management

Why acoustic failure won’t go away

Addressing the performance gap using reflective insulation

Brownfield & second-use sites - Choosing the right ground floors and foundations

Claims - Can they be prevented?

Legionella – Everything you need to know but were afraid to ask

What’s new in building regs & compliance?

LABC - Making life easier

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Event overview

  • Dates:
  • Times: 10 A.M. - 4 P.M.
  • Location: Liverpool City Council
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Event overview

  • Dates:
  • Times: 09.30 - 16.30
  • Location: London - TBC
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This half day session is aimed at those new to building control management, with or without a building control background or those just wishing to refresh their existing knowledge.

A truly essential course for anyone who is new to the challenge of managing a building control team or is likely to do so in the future.

This course will help delegates better understand their position within the organisation, budgets and team management, co-operation with stakeholders, the LABC Quality Management system, as well as building professional relationships.

This is a busy and thought provoking day which is designed to support those new to management, reinforce the skills of those with experience an encourage networking and the use of LABC resources.

CPD: This course counts for 3 hours CPD.

Cost: £80.00 + VAT 

Platform: This course will be held via Zoom and will run for 3.5 hours including time for breaks.
 

Course Content & Learning Outcomes:

The session will provide an overview on topics such as

  • Background to building control
  • Your role in the organisation
  • Management styles
  • Performance management
  • Staff engagement
  • Building Control finance - budgets and fee setting
  • Health and safety
  • Information governance
  • Procuring services and Quality management

This course is aimed as an introduction into the tasks and responsibilities that might confront local authority building control managers daily. It should act as a signpost for managers to seek more clarity on what might be expected of them from their managers, or to inform on any further training needs. It should act as a refresher for those who have undertaken prior learning on the subject.

Who should attend:

Building control team leaders
Principals
Line managers
Section leaders
Team leaders
Managers
Anyone who has experience of building control functions who now has a role to play in the management of a modern local authority building control service

OTHER MANAGEMENT COURSES BY LABC:

Building Control Management CPD Pathway: LABC also has a free online building control management CPD pathway that houses a huge set of resources, online courses and forums designed for those managing a building control service. To gain access to this free building control management pathway and community please email learning@labc.co.uk.

Trainer profile

Doug Basen - LABC

Doug Basen

Doug has spent the majority of his working life within the building control environment and is a staunch advocate of LABC. He has served as President of the District Surveyors Association (DSA), and was Chairman of LABC Services for 4 years. Doug's last job in local government was with Gateshead Council where he was employed as the Housing Renewal and Building Control Manager between April 2004, and January 2011, His work there involved management of the Building Control service and a Private Sector Housing Team, covering a wide range of work on private sector housing initiatives relating to housing market renewal projects. Doug joined LABC as Head of Technical and Practice Communications February 2011 and supports members and customers nationwide.

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