BESA CEO says those not interested in building safety should leave the industry, career switching electrician aims to encourage others, and builders help vicar ahead of Remembrance Sunday
David Frise, head of BESA warned that those uninterested in improving building safety and sustainability, should leave the industry.
Speaking at the trade body’s annual conference last week, Frise said that while two thirds of those in the industry were professional, competent and compliant the rest “simply don’t care”.
He went on to tell delegates that we can “try to drag them up… or drive them out of the industry”.
The BESA went on to launch a pledge, committing its members to put competence and compliance at the heart of their operations.
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Genesis Homes stepped in to repair an access road into a Cumbrian church, before Remembrance Sunday.
Reverend Ian Grainger issued an urgent plea on social media after bad weather left the road into St Peter’s Church almost unusable.
Genesis Homes, which is working in the local area reached out and completed repairs on the access route on Friday.
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A later comer to the electrical industry is encouraging others to follow in his footsteps.
Simon Rowland worked for Honda in Swindon for 20 years, before being made redundant in 2021.
He’s since started a three-year course to become an electrician.
Now working with Abbey Group Services, 45-year-old Rowland told his local newspaper, “there is no such thing as a job for life… but there is such a thing as a trade for life.”
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