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We are delivering some client bespoke Crane Evacuation training at our training centre today.

Have you seen our Emergency Preparedness & Response Planning article in May's edition of the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce's Business Intelligence Trade Publication. 

This comprehensive High Risk Confined Space training course will be delivered between Wednesday 8th - Friday 10th June at our purpose built training facility at Immingham West Fire Station and is designed for organisations, contractors and employees who undertake work in high risk confined  space areas on a regular basis.

This comprehensive Fire Marshal training course is being held on Friday 3rd June at our purpose built training centre and is designed to give Fire Marshals and Wardens the skills, knowledge and understanding to safely perform both their proactive and reactive roles in the workplace.

During the next two days, our Lead Instructor will be delivering a RUK GWO Working at Height training course.

The next RUK/GWO Fire Safety and Manual Handling training courses will be delivered by HFR Solutions CIC on Wednesday 18th May at our purpose built training centre, based in the surrounding areas of Hull.

HFR Solutions CIC & HOTA will be exhibiting at this year's Offshore Wind Connections Exhibition at Bridlington in May 2016.

HFR Solutions CIC Four Day Advanced Emergency Care & Trauma training course for the renewables and wind energy sectors gathers pace.

During the next four days, our Instructor Rob & Trauma Resus will be delivering the Advanced Emergency Care, Trauma & First Aid Training course to the renewables, wind energy and wind farm operators.

Good Luck to our Lead Instructor Shaun Lyons as he participates in the K2B 42.65 mile run between Keswick and Barrow today

Its been very busy at HFR Solutions CIC Training Centre this week with Centrica hosting a supervisors teambuilding event. 

The next RUK/GWO Fire Safety and Manual Handling training courses will be delivered by HFR Solutions CIC on Friday 29th April at our purpose built training centre, based in the surrounding areas of Hull.

Next RUK/GWO Working at Height course delivered by HFR Solutions CIC - Tuesday 26th & Wednesday 27th April at HFR Solutions CIC purpose built training centre, based in the surrounding areas of Hull.

Date of HFR Solutions CIC next Heartstart's Basic Life Support Skills Training Programme - Wednesday 20th April at Low Burnham Old Methodist Chapel between 6.30 - 8.30pm.

Next RUK/GWO First Aid Course delivered by HFR Solutions CIC - Thurs 7th/Fri 8th April at Fire Service Headquarters, Hull.

It is just over five months since a gentleman collapsed at the wheel of his car outside the Old Mill pub in Barton-upon-Humber suffering from a cardiac arrest. Passers-by ran to Barton fire station for help, where fortunately three colleagues from HFR Solutions were having a meeting and had an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to hand.

This fortunate coincidence inspired the raising of funds to purchase a number of AEDs and cabinets to ensure members of our community have local access to an AED should they need one.

Thanks to funding from HFR Solutions, Rescue Day and the Extreme Challenge, AED defibrillators and cabinets have been purchased for the following Community Fire Stations, plus four units for the vehicles of Humberside Fire and Rescue Service's Community Safety Advocates on both the North and South bank, as well as citing one within Belton and dontating one to Humber Rescue:

Barton-uopn-Humber

Brigg

Cleethorpes

Crowle

Epworth

Waltham

On Friday 2 October a number of the HFR Solutions team witnessed true sporting prowess and pure magnanimity in victory by their very own Nathan Iley. 

The event, 'Life for a Kid', is a charity that raises money for families with children who have debilitating illnesses that more often than not are incurable and limit the child's life. The event saw two fathers of two such children slugging it out toe to toe in order to raise funds to provide some wonderful holidays and experiences for children like theirs. Truly inspiring and really puts life into perspective.

Nathan also represented both the charity and HFR solutions in order that the audience dug deep into their pockets and gave generously for such a worthy cause. Jeff Owen, Danny Barker and Rick Marsh all entered into the spirit of the event by successfully bidding for some sports memorabilia; although not sure who some bloke called Henry is who apparently played for Arsenal?!

The highlight of the night was a fantastic demonstration of boxing by Nathan, beating three opponents to secure the Life for a Kid Prize Fighter 2015 title. Not only did he win in absolute style he did it with a cool and text book approach and was never troubled at any phase of each fight. Without doubt, pure pugilistic perfection.

A great night for the charity and a great credit to both the organisers and all the boxers who took part. The boxers were all truly magnificent for getting in the ring in the first place, as some will have been in a world of pain in the days that followed because they certainly took some punishment on the night. Total respect for them all.

All competing were full of heart but there was only one winner at the end of it all and that was Nathan Iley. A true gent both in and out of the ring and a massive credit to himself, his family and to HFR Solutions.

Very, very well done Nathan, we are all extremely proud of you.

HFR Solutions has recently acquired their new training facility in Hessle that has been under refurbishment since March.

The new facility at Summergroves Way includes a 40m external working at height tower as well as an internal working at height area, confined space facility, specially designed training sets and training classrooms.

The launch event is taking place on Tuesday 15 September, 10am-12pm and 1-3pm where attendess will have the opportunity to tour the facility, watch live training demonstrations and learn more about the training that HFR Solutions offers.

Attendance is by pre-registration only, so if you would like to attend this exciting event please contact Nicky Waudy on nicola.waudby@hfrsolutions.co.uk or 01482 398522 to reserve your place, stating which session you would like to attend. All attendees will receive a 10% discount on the first training course they book (individual or multiple delegate places on one course) by 31 December 2015.

A new training partnership has been formed between HFR Solutions and HOTA, the quality training provider, to deliver the wind industry's five Basic Safety Training (BST) modules in a one week package in Hull.

The partnership offers training that meets the standards of the Global Wind Organisation (GWO) and RenewableUK (RUK) in working at height, marine safety, fire awareness, first aid and manual handling.

Nick Granger, Director at HFR Solutions said: “This is a really exciting partnership as it incorporates the established training facilities at HOTA in Hull with our new training facilities in Hessle. The partnership is a natural fit as we’re both local training providers established to benefit the local community. HFR Solutions is a community interest company investing all profit in either community based safety initiatives or directly back into the business.   HOTA a limited company with charity status established in 1987 by the offshore industry for the offshore industry.  HOTA’s primary aim was to provide training and facilities for the Oil & Gas sector, investing all surplus funds into enhancing its training facilities.” 

Karen Shepherd, General Manager at HOTA said: “This is an excellent opportunity for two highly professional local companies to collaborate and offer their expertise from the maritime and offshore industries, and the fire and rescue service, to the renewable industry.”

HFR Solutions is holding a launch event at their new training facility in Hessle on Tues 15 September, 10am – 12pm or 1-3pm where you will have the opportunity to take a tour of the facility, watch training demonstrations and learn more about their training partnership with HOTA and the BST training package available.

If you would like to attend this exciting event please contact Nicola Waudby on nicola.waudby@hfrsolutions.co.uk or 01482 398522 to reserve your place.

HFR Solutions has today been awarded the extension of the emergency response contract at TATA Steel, Scunthorpe, until 31 April 2018.

HFR Solutions have been providing the emergency response at the Scunthorpe site since 2012, providing a dedicated and professional emergency service where both a fire appliance and ambulance are crewed and operated to the same specifications as that of the Local Authority Emergency Services.

The contract renewal enables HFR Solutions to continue the proactive partnership working with the TATA management team, building on the positive safety improvements that they have made in the last 3 years in terms of minimising incidences and maximising productivity, resulting in substantial year-on-year declines in emergency incidents at the site.

John Armson, TATA Contract Manager for HFR Solutions said “Our emergency provision at TATA Steel Scunthorpe is as much about prevention as it is about protection, response and recovery. We have worked hard over the last 3 years to align our proactive practices to TATA’s Health and Safety Management system to ensure that collectively the plants on the site understand their risk profile and credible scenarios which could potentially occur, along with the implementing control measures such as education, training and preparation for such events”.