Operator Compliance Audits
Join IRTE North Eastern for an informative evening lecture on Operator Compliance Audits, delivered by Alan Scorer, Managing Director of Transport Compliance Associates.
Gate Safe: Understanding Powered Gates
Join us for a hybrid lecture exploring the dangers of automated gates and key considerations for their design, installation, maintenance, and inspection. Richard Jackson MBE, CEO and founder of Gate Safe, will outline common safety deficiencies and essential points for inspection and risk assessment.
Lift Installations
Join us for a focused session on lift installations in city environments, presented by Paul Symmonds. This lecture will explore the practical challenges, constraints, and best-practice considerations when delivering lift projects in dense urban areas.
IRTE Northern Centre host talk on vehicle safety systems
Andy Waddington of Spillard Vehicle Safety Systems presented the IRTE Northern Centre’s May Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event.
King concern
Fifth wheel systems that engage the trailer kingpin, as well as drawbar couplings, are simple mechanical connections. They require basic maintenance and training to use safely, but additional equipment offers extra protection. Steve Banner reports on how to maintain, specify and operate them
Licensed to skill
Keeping Biffa's massive UK waste management operations on the move is a man with a mission. Shaun Stephenson has watched the skills levels within both industry as a whole, and the engineering profession in particular, go through a serious decline - one that has impacted his own company as well - and is determined to see that trend reversed.
SOE member Ricky Schembri MBE receives special award for attending all MS Motorservice’s training webinars
MS Motorservice has a long-running series of SOE webinars.
Surface Preparation - It's a blast!
So what exactly is industry's hang-up with surface preparation? Unfortunately, it's that the process doesn't add any value to the finished component. However, ignoring this important operation is likely to be a very costly decision, if it jeopardises the optimum adhesion conditions required for subsequent coating operations.
We need your views
We are looking to find even more ways that IRTE members can make the most of benefits the Society has to offer – plus we're offering you the chance to win a £100 Amazon voucher to hear your views.
What lies beneath
Presentations at a recent seminar revealed the enormity of the tasks to be addressed if carbon capture and sequestration is ever to become a reality.