Trenton Training for RIBA architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects has appointed Trenton Training as its preferred provider of health and safety training for members.

All of its 40,500 members worldwide are expected to follow a programme of Continuing Professional Development, which each year includes a compulsory element on health and safety.

New regulations came into force which placed fresh responsibilities on designers for ensuring safety at construction sites and now within the completed work.

Trenton Training is one of only three companies who are officially accredited to run courses in the management of these new regulations.

The status was awarded by the Association for Project Safety, the lead organisation for compliance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007.

Alan Russell Principal Trainer, of Butler and Young, Trenton Training's parent company, said: "We are delighted to be chosen by RIBA to provide their members' ongoing professional development training in health and safety.

"Ensuring safety at construction sites is of paramount importance and designers such as architects play a key role in this".

"Our training will help architects identify their own practice's approach to safety and focus on how they can incorporate safety into their designs".

"The consequences for breaching the new regulations are now onerous - in the worst cases it can result in up to 12 months in prison or a fine of up to GBP20,000".

Trenton Training is part of the Butler and Young group, one of the UK's largest commercial providers of building control services and fire safety engineers, which operates out of a network of 18 offices across the country.

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