Door Industry Journal - Summer 2016

Also online at: www.dijonline.co.uk THE door industry journal summer 2016 OPEN DOORS TRAINING, TRAINING AND MORE TRAINING! The last few months have seen a significant expansion in the federation’s training offering. Building on the success of the powered gate Safety Diploma course, we introduced training courses for our industrial door and garage door members. Of course, in addition, we also (in conjunction with BRE) offer training courses for the inspection, installation, maintenance and repair of both timber and steel fire doors, and roller shutter doors. The opportunity to take up safety training has been warmly embraced by DHF members. A grand total of 750 have now successfully completed their safety training. Naturally, the bulk of those have been on the powered gate course, which has been running for nearly three years. But it is heartening to see our industrial and garage door members realising the benefits of safety training. There have now been a total of 12 training sessions held for IDG and GDG members which have attracted more than 100 delegates. Regular Safety Diploma courses are taking place throughout the summer and autumn, and places are booking up fast. Increasingly, our members are realising the business benefits of having expert, qualified and trained personnel with the ability to supply, install and maintain products which are legal and safe. The vision of the federation has long been to establish DHF companies as the recognised source of products and services which are legally compliant and are both quality and safety assured Up to now, training has been delivered by Nick Perkins our training officer, and Michael Skelding, our general manager. The continuing high demand for DHF training has led us to appoint a third trainer. Dave Hall has many years’ experience in the door industry and is also a certified NVQ assessor. His training skills and knowledge of our industry makes Dave a valuable and welcome addition to the team. The powered gate Safety Diploma is now widely recognised as the most respected qualification available in the industry. In its field, the actual training content and programme is unquestionably the pre-eminent and most comprehensive in the UK and - possibly - in the world. It won’t be long before DHF training in the industrial door and garage door sectors receives the same recognition and respect. Bob Perry, DHF CEO A regular comment column, brought to you by Bob Perry, CEO, Door and Hardware Federation For more information, please visit www.dhfonline.org.uk SOMFY WELCOMES KAREN TALLANT TO THE TEAM Somfy UK is delighted to welcome Karen Tallant to their ever growing team, she will be joining the Telemarketing and Customer Service Team based at their UK HQ in Yeadon Leeds Karen has over 17 years experience in Telemarketing and Telesales dealing with all B2C B2B and B2 just about everyone, a valuable complementary role to the whole supply chain. Karen’s Primary role is to assist in the marketing and sales within the Access market. She has adapted quickly to help support: Garage doors, Roller Garage Doors, Roller Shutters, Commercial, Residential, the range is extensive. In the future it is expected to spread to support other Somfy users in other markets, initially tasked with ensuring showroom upgrades, training sessions, product demos and promotions it will become a valuable support role. Working from the Leeds office she will be contacting the entire market, completely focused on helping large and (especially) small installers - the message is “you will be called!” But if not you can contact her on: 0113 391 3030 or karen.tallant@somfy.com SOMFY OPENS NEW LONDON OFFICE Somfy’s Commercial Building Solutions team has moved to new London facilities. The office and showroom are located at Power Road Studios, Power Road, Chiswick, London W4 5PY Tel: +44 (0) 207 288 6038 Head Office: +44 (0) 113 391 3030. Please visit: www.somfyarchitecture.co.uk .