Crowcon Apprentice wins Student of the Year 2016

Last night, at an awards ceremony hosted by Abingdon and Witney College to celebrate student success, one of our second year Engineering Apprentices, Vikesh Patel, won not just ‘2016 Apprentice of the Year’ but, out of around 14000 students across 2 campuses, won ‘2016 Student of the Year’ too. This makes him the first ever apprentice to win such an accolade. Continue reading “Crowcon Apprentice wins Student of the Year 2016”

Deadly Sin no.4 – Ignoring training

Ignoring Training is the fourth in Crowcon’s series of Deadly Sins of Gas Detection. Training is a vital aspect not just of the safe use but also proper maintenance of detection equipment, which can be overlooked. This could equally be management not properly providing training in the first place and the trainer or trainee not properly understanding or heeding it.

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