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The Institute started to implement its bold new development plans in January 2018.
The aims were in essence simple, and based on the growth of two of its three revenue streams, Membership and Training.
Over the past 12 month period we have made great progress with a renewed relationship with IMechE ARL leading to the ability to market ICorr training programmes globally through the IMechE network.
Chris Kirby the General Manager of IMechE ARL said “we are delighted with the new arrangement and the ability to link our Corrosion and NDT training through approved training centres in key locations to meet our global customer’s needs. Our current focus is North Asia, SE Asia, Middle East and CIS countries with other options being considered”.
The Institute has people in place to review and rewrite all of the training programmes, and IMechE have employed a new team to market and deliver the courses.
The potential is huge with expected growth in the UK through Highways, Rail and Nuclear sectors, and overseas with developments on the NW Shelf of Australia, China, SEA, ME, CIS and Russia.
In terms of membership development, the main drive has been to recruit and retain younger members. The Young ICorr initiative has been invigorated initially by the work done by Chris Bridge and more recently by Simon Bowcock , who is in the process of enlisting more help as the workload to reach out to Young ICorr members at all levels is time consuming and demanding.
Simon and his team are also driving the Route to Chartered Status, and supporting the Young Engineer programme which has just finished its second round.
We also have a policy to support members though all states of their professional development from apprenticeship to chartered status. The addition of the Industrial Coating Applicator Apprenticeship scheme completes this strategy to deliver training and mentoring programmes.
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As noted in the President’s column, the official handover of Corrosion House in Northampton from the architect, was performed at the beginning of March.
Apart from the outer shell and the roof, the building has been gutted and rebuilt, with unbelievably fantastic results. It’s a 3-story building, the ground floor being dedicated for the Admin team, the middle floor for training, and the top floor as a conference room. Each floor has its own kitchen, and the training centre has a breakout facility for delegates.
Trevor Osborne commented that this is a world class facility fitting for the Institute of Corrosion and based in a location in easy reach for both national and global customers, and that we look forward to welcoming our customers and members to our new facility.
It’s state of the art, extremely well converted, and a credit to all those involved.
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David Horrocks, a member of the NHSS19a Sector Scheme Advisory committee for Highways England, and the Sector Scheme Chairman of the Training Committee, recently visited North Lindsey College in Scunthorpe, to see the start of Industrial Coating Applicator (ICA) apprenticeship course, to meet the first cohort of candidates who have already started their training, and to personally offer support to them throughout their apprenticeship training. A more detailed report on this scheme will feature in a future issue of Corrosion Management.
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The new ICATS course material launched in November is proving to be a great success, with positive feedback received from all the Trainers that have started to present the new course modules.
We are pleased to announce the appointment of two new Approved Training Centres, K M Decorating Ltd in London and Survivex in Aberdeen. These ATCs are in areas where previously we were not able to offer Training to ICATS Registered Companies that don’t have in-house Trainers.
ICATS is also introducing the new ICATS Managers/Engineers Industrial Coating Awareness course. This is a structured training module for managers, engineers, specifiers and anyone that would benefit from an understanding of coating application.
The module covers the following subjects:
Health and Safety in Industrial Painting
Preparation Standards
Blasting and Abrasives
Mechanical and manual preparation
Other surface preparation methods
Painting Specification
Toolbox talks
Paint technology
Scale of Nobility
Convertible and Non-Convertible Coatings
Over-painting existing paint systems
Paint Manufacturers
Paint Faults
QC and QA
The Industrial Coating Applicator (ICA) faces many issues within Industrial Coatings. It is recognised that the ICA role can be misunderstood, leading to a potentially dangerous situation or misinterpretation and expectation of what can or can’t be achieved. This is a one-day classroom based presentation. Courses will take place at our Northampton training facility and other locations.
Please contact the office correx@icorr.org, phone 01604 438222, or check the ICATS website http://www.icats-training.org/ for details of all courses.
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It’s almost Spring and our industry is gearing up for the busy maintenance period. This involves a lot of inspection work and testing against standards, which are the themes of this issue. Firstly there is an up-date of the important protective coatings standard, ISO 12944 from Trevor Fielding of the British Coatings Federation, and Malcolm Morris of Sherwin Williams. Several of the parts were revised and these are highlighted in the article. There is also an article on the non-destructive test methods available to assess corrosion under insulation, by Kristian Hampson of IMechE Argyll Ruane, to complement the article in
the previous issue on the testing of coatings for use
under insulation. Finally, Ian Patterson of Paint Technology Solutions discusses the development of digital/paperless reporting of site data from painting contractors and inspectors.
The issue also has, as usual, reports from the various sections of the Institute, and what’s been happening within our industry.
Remember to send me information about your new products or any other news you have about your company or what’s happening within your part of our industry. I also welcome submissions of technical articles and the editorial themes can be found at https://www.icorr.org/publications. I can be contacted at, brianpce@aol.com
Brian Goldie, Consulting Editor
