MRS TRAINING & RESCUE - SAFE IN OUR HANDS
The new name for ... Mines Rescue Service
Q Tell us about MRS Training & Rescue ( MRS ) - Your history , background and capabilities as a leading provider of fully accredited health and safety training courses .
For over 100 years , MRS Training & Rescue ( formerly known as Mines Rescue Service ) has developed specialist skills , experience and knowledge , gained from working in difficult and potentially dangerous environments , to effect the rescue and escape of mine workers from underground .
Given the gradual decline of coal mines over years , culminating in the closure of the last large deep coal mine ( in December 2015 ), we have been able to expand and diversify ; to meet the needs of today ’ s health and safety market .
MRS Training & Rescue has secured long term success by leveraging expertise - branching out from underground mining into providing unique rescue services ; specialist equipment ( some of which has been designed using practical expertise gathered on the job ), consultancy and accredited health and safety related products , and training , to a wide range of industries , including nuclear , aerospace , manufacturing and utilities .
Training and assessing customers ’ employees to safely enter , work and exit from confined spaces , is offered at all of our seven training centres . It can also be delivered at customers ’ premises by using our City & Guilds approved and accredited mobile rigs . We have been involved with industry in developing the National Occupational Standards , and the suite of confined space qualifications awarded by City & Guilds is available at our accredited training centres . We ’ ve also developed bespoke courses for specific industries , including the water industry .
▪ All trainers have worked in confined spaces and continue to do so - with real life stories to share to make the theory come alive .
▪ Provide health and safety consultancy services across the world .
▪ Specialist providers of long duration breathing apparatus ( 4 hours ). We are the best equipped for the most difficult jobs .
With a long history and background in mines rescue ( a mine being the ultimate confined space with no shortage of complex specified risks ), we decided to diversify around 20 years ago and developed a suite of courses to comply with the requirements of the confined space regulations . We were in a growth situation , with “ blue chip ” companies approaching us for training .
However , this situation changed abruptly - an occupational standard for the water industry had been developed , and CABWI and City and Guilds were awarding a formal quality assured qualification in entering , working in and rescue from confined spaces . Consequently , our customer base dried up almost overnight .
We made a conscious decision to join this system , establishing ourselves as an accredited assessment center through City and Guilds by training our operatives as professional assessors and verifiers . When the opportunity came to develop a National Occupational Standard for confined space , we volunteered , having realised the value of this system and the quality assurance provided by the award bodies .
We have continued to support this system ever since ,
and are now accredited by City and Guilds , IOSH , NEBOSH , MPQC and others �.
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