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Welcome to Dr Steve Medcalf

New Team Member To help us deliver our goals for 2023 and beyond we have taken on a new team member. Please give a warm welcome to  Dr. Steve Medcalf, our new Health, Safety, and Compliance trainer. Steve joins with a wealth of experience, including over 30 years within the water industry...


Q2 Training Course Schedule Released

Q2 Training Course Schedule Released Pressing On Following Successful Start to 2023 As the first quarter draws to a close we wanted to point you in the way of our upcoming open training courses in April, May and June with our latest Q2 course schedule. We have enjoyed a fantastic start to 2023,...


Airport Onsite Delivery Case Study

Bristol Airport Onsite Delivery Case Study Background Hydro-X has been working very closely with Bristol Airport client most notably since our business development manager Yasmeen Bashir began to organise training with their Engineering Manager. The client's airport Engineering team is responsible for all hard facilities management (FM) tasks, and they manage this...


Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions Case Study

Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions Virtual Training Project Dip Slides & Legionella Training June 2022 – March 2023 Background Royal Mail Property & Facilities Solutions (RMPFS) is Royal Mail’s group internal service provider. They are responsible for all hard and soft services for approximately 1,600 sites UK-wide. The team first started working with...


Growing Fire Safety Awareness Highlights Worrying Skills Gap

Workload Ramps Up for Fire/Smoke Damper Installs With growing awareness of fire safety in the wake of the 2017 Grenfell tragedy, the workload is beginning to ramp up for engineers across the UK. The recent focus has now shifted towards Fire Doors, along with Fire and Smoke Dampers as...


How to check fire doors?

How to check fire doors? Reading Time - Approx. 3.5 Mins What is a fire door? A fire door provides not just a means of escape from a fire within a building, such as an office, but acts as a barrier against fire from spreading from one room to another protecting the contents...


Coronavirus – What Are We Doing To Minimise Risk?

Coronavirus - What Are We Doing To Minimise Risk? UK November Covid Lockdown Update Updated 2nd November 2020 In response to the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation in the UK, I would like to take this opportunity to reassure you that Hydro-X Training are taking all precautionary measures in line with current government and...


10 Facts about Fire Safety in the Workplace

10 Facts about Fire Safety in the Workplace These 10 facts about Fire Safety give a very brief overview into the responsibilities of employees wanting to keep themselves, others and a premises safe. If you or others require training by real fire professionals (those who have been in the fire service/or...


What is the Value of an IOSH Certificate?

What is the Value of an IOSH Certificate? IOSH Certificates hold different values for a business and delegates involved. An example of this would be a smaller number of absences are recorded after the course, which also goes hand-in-hand with increased productivity. However still significantly important, the delegate gains an increased...