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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 the UK...

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...

Do you need a CSCS card if you have IOSH Training?

Do you need a CSCS card if you have IOSH Training? Everything you need to know CSCS and IOSH At Hydro-X, our IOSH Managing Safely Course and IOSH Working Safely Courses produce certificates that have considerable, substantial benefits. Both CSCS and IOSH qualifications are looked upon with the highest respect, but they are not...

Do you need Legionella in your system to be prosecuted?

Do you need Legionella in your system to be prosecuted? All your questions answered... When it comes to the legal system, the worst thing you can do is to make assumptions. This is no different when it comes to Legionella and Legionella compliance. The bottom line is that future cases must...

TMV2 And TMV3: What You Need To Know About Thermostatic Mixing Valves

TMV2 And TMV3: What You Need To Know About Thermostatic Mixing Valves This article is focused on the uses of thermostatic mixing valves in residential and healthcare environments. It is for those who want to learn about TMV2 and TMV3 valves. This article also focuses on the different types of Thermostatic...

Guides for Legionella Temperature Checks To Reduce Legionella Risk

Guides for Legionella Temperature Checks To Reduce Legionella Risk Have you ever wondered what legionella is all about and how important legionella water temperature checks are? Especially in the prevention of legionella bacteria which is also in-line with the health and safety regulation? In this article, we will see the ways...

Legionnaires Disease Prevention – What Can You Do?

Legionnaires Disease Prevention - What Can You Do? Legionnaires Disease is a very severe disease (a form of pneumonia) and is one of several that make up a collective group of diseases caused by the Legionella infection bacteria and are called Legionellosis. Therefore a Legionella Prevention Plan is needed in order...