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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => General Interest => Topic started by: David Rooney on March 03, 2009, 01:22:50 PM

Title: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: David Rooney on March 03, 2009, 01:22:50 PM

Just out of interest, is anybody else apart from me and Mr T going to this seminar ??
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: kurnal on March 03, 2009, 07:08:58 PM
Which phone box will it be held in? If you give me the venue and the date I could unleash my marketing skills and increase the attendance by 50%!
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Thomas Brookes on March 04, 2009, 07:27:07 PM
If i knew anything about it might be interested.
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Benzerari on March 04, 2009, 08:24:16 PM

Just out of interest, is anybody else apart from me and Mr T going to this seminar ??

Dave;

Why not dispalying the link, this may interest some others, if they see more profoundly what is about...   :)
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Midland Retty on March 05, 2009, 05:16:04 PM
If Mr T is going will there be free snickers bars and people shouting things like " i aint going on no third party course sucker" or " get some nuts?"



....sorrry!
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Thomas Brookes on March 15, 2009, 07:06:57 AM
I take it that its a secret, "is it one of them wiggly hand shake doo's"
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: David Rooney on March 15, 2009, 11:49:53 AM
Blimey.... perhaps it's a secret.......!!!

Haven't got a link but here's the remnants of an email.....


Thank you for your request to attend the forthcoming NSI/CFOA seminar at the London Fire Brigade Southwark Training Centre, SE1 0EG, on 15 April (directions attached).  I confirm a place has been booked for you.

The seminar will take place in the Sir Frederick Delve Suite, located on the second floor of the Main block.  Please note, parking spaces are not available, but public transport links are good.  As mentioned in the invite letter, a complimentary buffet lunch will be provided from 12pm with the seminar starting at 1pm and finishing at 4pm.


phone on 01628 764870.

Gayle Bennett
Marketing Co-ordinator
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Benzerari on March 15, 2009, 07:52:53 PM
How much costs Dave? or is that free?  :)
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: David Rooney on March 15, 2009, 10:38:12 PM
I think it was free... but to be honest I can't remember now... if it cost ££££s then it wasn't a lot........
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: colin todd on March 15, 2009, 11:10:36 PM
Its about the benefits of 3rd party certification, such as BAFE SP 203 etc. Dr Retty, I missed the sense of your rapier wit. Could you possibly explain.
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Midland Retty on March 16, 2009, 12:56:41 PM
Field Marshall Todd

Someone said in an earlier post that "Mr T" would be attending the above seminar. He was of course referring to yourgoodself.  "Mr T" is also a name of a character from the popular 1980's US television programme "The A Team". Mr T currently advertises Snickers®™ Bars on British Television proclaiming that we should all "Get Some Nuts" he was also famed for saying things like: " I aint going on no plane fool"

Im afraid I have a habit of adding comments which only amuse myself, and perplex or just annoy others! Something Mrs Retty (INNL) is always telling me off about.  Mrs Retty recommends that you just ignore me, and that I will go away eventually!
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: colin todd on March 16, 2009, 07:37:08 PM
Archangel Retty, That was way too obscure for me, especially as I dont have time to watch TV. I do however recall the guy you mean now. He was a wimp! Snickers bars would interfere with my diet, but perhaps when I am next in the West Mids, Mrs Retty could do me a cuppa, while we talk about you.

Now back on topic (isnt that a chocolate bar too), so I dont get wrong from the mod, the seminars in question are to run in London, Glasgow ( a sort of poor man's Edinburgh if you have never been) and Bury, which I suppose as a Midlander you consider oop North.  I dont think that there is any secret about them, but they will explain the benefits of 3rd party certification schemes to enforcers, users, etc and of course insurers. 3rd party certification was actually the brainchild of insurers originally, but commercial considerations often prevented requirments for 3rd party certificated products and services. In the current climate, maybe the time is right to re-engage with insurers.  If you want to go to one of the seminars, let me know.
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: kurnal on March 16, 2009, 08:56:02 PM
Glasgow ( a sort of poor man's Edinburgh if you have never been)

Funny you should say that I have just spent a few days in Edinburgh and now I too am a poor man.

The Scots may have decent fire safety  legislation and  great whisky but if I never hear another set of bagpipes it will still be too soon.
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Wiz on March 17, 2009, 08:46:56 AM
Quote from: kurnal

.....The Scots may have decent fire safety  legislation and  great whisky but if I never hear another set of bagpipes it will still be too soon.

I read somewhere that the definition of a gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes.....but doesn't!
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: colin todd on March 17, 2009, 02:27:08 PM
Kurnal, I think the fact that you acknowledge two out of the three is sufficient for me. In any case, I am more a soft rock man myself, though after a few Taliskers I do a rousing version of Flower of Scotland, with or without bagpipes.

ps I bet the kilt shop convinced you that there really was a Kurnitowkski tartan.
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: kurnal on March 19, 2009, 12:24:10 AM
ps I bet the kilt shop convinced you that there really was a Kurnitowkski tartan.

Well not quite Colin but I do have a letter confirming the right to wear the Guthrie Tartan as a result of links going back to Bonnie Prince Charlie. Charles was the son of James Francis Edward Stuart who was in turn the son of James II and VII, who had been deposed in the Revolution of 1688.  Charles' mother was James' Polish wife, Maria Clementina Sobieska 1702–1735, granddaughter of the Polish King, John III Sobieski. The Sobieskis were ancestors of mine on my grandmothers side and later assistance by my grandfathers side of the family to the Bonnie prince led to the symbol of the boat and thistles being introduced into the Kurnatowski coat of arms.


Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Midland Retty on March 19, 2009, 10:27:36 AM
*yawn* ...sorry Prof did you just say something?  ;)
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: Davo on March 19, 2009, 10:52:23 AM
Sorry Prof, but with those legs :P :P???


davo
Title: Re: Third party certification - seminar 15th April - London
Post by: colin todd on March 20, 2009, 03:51:09 AM
Kurnal, I must tell the cleaners that I know an aristocrat amongst their countrymen.