“Why doesn’t OFTEC ever listen to me?” This is something we hear from time to time.
Did you know there is a registered technician sitting on our OFTEC Scheme Committee? If you didn’t, perhaps it’s because it’s not been too obvious exactly who this person is and how you can contact them.
So, we are pleased to introduce the new person taking up this important role: Simon Robson, who has been registered on the OFTEC competent person scheme since 2022, working with liquid fuel installations and unvented hot water systems.
Simon is an experienced heating engineer who also works part-time as a trainer at an OFTEC training centre in Yorkshire. That means he meets a lot of heating technicians every week, making him ideally placed to give feedback to OFTEC – both good and bad – on the aspects of being a modern-day heating technician.
Technician forum
Assisted by OFTEC’s registration manager (Jon King), Simon will be chairing a technician forum which meets twice-yearly to raise issues, hold discussions and then feed recommendations into decision makers at OFTEC, the OFTEC Scheme Committee and further afield to the likes of LABC, the Building Safety Regulator and MCS.
The next meeting will take place in October.
If you have any issues you’d like to raise with the way OFTEC operates, then please email Simon at registeredtechnician@oftec.org and he will start the ball rolling to get things discussed with a view of seeking opportunities for improvement. Any issues raised will be treated in confidence.
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