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Managing Fire Safety
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Barbour, the official information service of BIFM, is delighted to provide members with the latest quarterly resource pack, giving a sample of free content from its compliance-based FM service. The Barbour Estates & Facilities Management subscription service offers total online support to FM professionals, from detailed guidance to tools such as training, factsheets and briefings for directors. The weekly Estates & Facilities Management email features news, prosecutions and guidance summaries. Information is produced and peer-reviewed by FM experts and is created to increase awareness and help protect your business. Barbour understands that with so many areas to manage spanning across so many different functions, facilities managers need to be highly knowledgeable about every aspect of their working environment. That’s why they’ve developed their Estates & Facilities Management information service to provide a full range of practical tools and essential knowledge that will help save BIFM members’ precious time. The latest resource pack on Managing Your Fire Safety Responsibilities includes: ● Employee factsheets ● Technical guides to fire precautions, fire protection, fire detection and alarm systems ● Model policies and checklists
Are you at the right BIFM membership grade to reflect your increasing achievements in the FM industry – or is it time to progress? This year 925 members have upgraded their membership – with 78 per cent upgrading to Member grade or above (212 became Certified members). Does your current membership grade reflect your status in the industry now, and provide the chance to raise your profile further in line with what you’ve accomplished?
i To download your member resource pack from Barbour, visit www.bifm.org.uk/barbour Contact Barbour for an online demonstration of the Estates & Facilities Management service on 0845 711 4111 or email barbour-marketing@ubm.com
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There are various upgrade routes: ● Affiliate to Associate grade ● Affiliate and Associate to Member grade ● Affiliate and Associate to Certified grade ● Member to Certified grade ● Certified to Fellow grade By upgrading your membership to one of our assessed levels you will be entitled to use postnominal letters. Many of our members use these letters on their CVs, business cards, email signatures and other business collateral to denote their professional status. To learn more about the benefits of each grade, click on an upgrade route above. In order to upgrade your membership we require supporting materials relevant to the member grade you are applying for an upgrade to. Please also be aware that to upgrade your membership, your current subscription must be fully paid or a direct debit set up. i If you have any queries regarding your membership or upgrading, please contact our Membership team at membership@bifm.org.uk
BIFM TRAINING BIGGER, BRIGHTER, BETTER
his year has seen the public course programme grow to over 50 titles. We have seen increased attendance from overseas learners and worked with a number of corporates to deliver new courses supporting large change management programmes and the drive for excellence in customer service. Energy and sustainability management is still high on the agenda, with DECC funding initiatives for training to improve efficiency and practice throughout the UK. We have introduced the following new courses: Agile Working; FM Compliance & Standards; BS11000 Collaboration; Building Information Modelling and Legionella. A further four titles are in line for 2014. Our refreshed flagship foundation course remains our most popular programme, and we’ve been vetting potential new trainers to ensure our expert team remains at the forefront of FM learning delivery. We also launched the full range of SkillSet courses this year and now offer a total of 17 e-learning titles. We’ve supported skills development for major clients in the retail, universities and public sectors, where we’ve found growing interest in developing customer service capabilities alongside better commercial awareness and contract management. There is also a growing interest in delivering FM qualifications in-house, and we are actively working with a number of public and private sector clients on bespoke qualifications programmes to support career development and succession planning. This drive for in-house qualifications delivery is now extending to overseas groups, and our expanding international presence has seen us pilot programmes in other countries including Kazakhstan and those in Central Asia and Africa. We continue to run a series of courses in Dubai and Bucharest, and one of our Dubaibased learners has won a major FM Award for their services. We are keen to support industry initiatives and at the beginning of 2013 we successfully secured funding from the Department for the Environment & Climate Change, for over 100 people to undertake fully funded energy management training. Also resulting from this is that we’ve been asked to support an extended sustainability training programme for a leading property management and FM company, using a mix of face-to-face and online learning. We’re proud to be a Women in FM sponsor in 2013 and also to be involved in key FM events including both the London and North Region Careers Fairs hosted by Rising FMs, plus presentations at both the SE Region event and the Facilities Show in Birmingham.
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