High-risk safety management apprentices join team at chemical firm

The first 10 recruits to a new apprenticeship scheme in high-risk safety management have graduated from their initial training with flying colours and joined the on-site protection team at one of Teesside's major companies.
By The Newsroom
Published 13th May 2016, 10:35 BST
Updated 13th May 2016, 11:40 BST
The ten trail-blazing apprentices graduating from the first part of their training with (from left in white) Barry Waller, Davey Veitch and CEO Ian Hayton of CFB Risk Management.The ten trail-blazing apprentices graduating from the first part of their training with (from left in white) Barry Waller, Davey Veitch and CEO Ian Hayton of CFB Risk Management.
The ten trail-blazing apprentices graduating from the first part of their training with (from left in white) Barry Waller, Davey Veitch and CEO Ian Hayton of CFB Risk Management.

CFB Risk Management has a contract to provide site protection services at Ineos Nitriles at Seal Sands where the 10 apprentice site protection officers have now been placed.

The apprentices, aged between 19 and 27, were selected from more than 100 applicants and include Jordan Craddy from Hartlepool and Thomas Pattison from Billingham.

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Their families and senior Cleveland Fire Brigade management heard them praised highly at a graduation ceremony to mark the end of their initial training course.

Course manager Davey Veitch said: “I am very proud of all of them and couldn’t have asked for any more as they all gave 150% throughout the course. They have shown a high level of maturity, commitment and effort and earned themselves the respect of everyone who came into contact with them at the training centre. It has been a great start to our new apprenticeship scheme and bodes well for the future as it is vital we maintain the highest level of skill in our workforce.”

The 18-month apprenticeships will now continue with time spent as part of the operational on-site protection team and studying at a local college to gain the relevant qualifications.

They were previously employed in jobs ranging from tailoring, joinery and pathology to customer services and lifeguard roles while others recently graduated from university. CFB Risk Management provides a range of risk management services to blue-chip companies operating in the high hazard sector, including oil and gas, petrochemical and nuclear to protect their workforce, premises and production.

A growing number of contracts in the UK, Europe and the Middle East are taking the community interest company’s turnover to £2m with profits going back into supporting projects that improve safety.

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