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UPDATE FROM THE AEMT SECRETARY
Thomas Marks shares the latest news from the Association. WE ARE AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN THE AEMT’S HISTORY, despite coming out of a damp squib of a year. The lockdowns have encouraged moments of reflection, clarity, and focus, which have presented a clear route forward for when we step out of the pandemic and a sense of normality returns. Pivotal, because we say goodbye to a true champion of the association, Tim Marks, who was Secretary of the AEMT from 2001 to 2017, and in a supporting role until he retired at the end of 2020. There will be more on the success he has brought the AEMT in the magazine’s next issue. He remains available to the association as a consultant and will continue to support the industry by representing AEMT members on the standards committees we are members of. I will continue my role as Secretary and will also become General Manager for the AEMT, working with the council to ensure the association remains relevant, progressive and above all else, valuable to its members. Our first priority this year is to ensure that our members are taken care
of, that those requiring Ex training are catered for, and that the association is in a position to start growing again. We begin by hiring back in-house a full-time administrator, who will be the members’ new point of contact for membership enquiries and course bookings, filling the shoes of Jane Garnett who retired in 2019. We also move office in February to a new location in York, which will become our new base to run the association from. We look forward to publishing details of this soon. For the Ex courses, we are working hard on improving our online offer to easily train workers from afar and in the UK, who are looking for a more flexible learning experience. And for those who enjoy the classroom-based courses, we also look forward to bringing these back where we can and as soon as we can (COVID permitting). Upcoming course dates can be viewed below, and I encourage early booking to avoid disappointment. Before the end of the first quarter, we aim to have completed our membership outreach project, which ChordUK initiated and ran for us in November 2020. This will mean all membership profiles and records will be accurate, current, and logged in our new management system and on the AEMT website. With this system in place, more staff hours, and a new office, members will see much better interactions from the secretariat. I wish you all the very best for 2021 and really look forward to reuniting later this year when our face-to-face events return.
Forthcoming AEMT led Courses on Hazardous Area Equipment Repair, Overhaul and Reclamation MODULE
COURSE TITLE
START DATE
END DATE
LOCATION
1
Ex Theory
25 January 2021
26 January 2021
Online UTC +7
2
Ex Hands-on
27 January 2021
29 January 2021
Online UTC +7
3
Ex Refresher
09 February 2021
11 February 2021
Online UTC +7
3
Ex Refresher
23 February 2021
24 February 2021
Loughborough
3
Ex Refresher
09 March 2021
10 March 2021
Online UTC
3
Ex Refresher
16 March 2021
18 March 2021
Online UTC +4
1
Ex Theory
19 April 2021
20 April 2021
Loughborough
2
Ex Hands-on
21 April 2021
22 April 2021
Loughborough
3
Ex Refresher
27 April 2021
28 April 2021
Loughborough
3
Ex Refresher
11 May 2021
13 May 2021
Online UTC +7
3
Ex Refresher
18 May 2021
19 May 2021
York
3
Ex Refresher
08 June 2021
09 June 2021
Aberdeen
3
Ex Refresher
15 June 2021
17 June 2021
Online UTC +4
1
Ex Theory
21 June 2021
22 June 2021
Kuala Lumpur
2R
Ex Refresher
23 June 2021
24 June 2021
Kuala Lumpur
2
Ex Hands-on
23 June 2021
24 June 2021
Kuala Lumpur
For more information or to book any of the couses listed please visit www.ex-repair.com
All classroom-based training is scheduled subject to the COVID-19 restrictions in place at the time. Full details of the safety procedures being applied to classroom-based courses can be found on the course website. Quarter 1 2021
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