Don’t assume that power engineering education is reserved for students looking to gain their class certification. This isn’t the case; in fact, we highly encourage facilities and our clients to enhance their workplace safety with our on-site seminars.
TFM Consulting International provides customized training seminars designed for facilities and employers who want to stay compliant with evolving industry regulations, improve internal safety protocols, and fill any gaps in knowledge created by changing staff.
A Strategic Advantage: Ongoing Training
Evolving Safety Standards: Employers must stay ahead of compliance, because regulations around equipment operations, emergency responses and energy efficiency are constantly being updated. Ensuring that your staff is prepared for these changes increases efficiency and reduces the risk of safety fines.
Retirement Gaps: Many experienced power engineers are looking to retire, and in doing so, they take critical site-specific knowledge with them. This leaves the new engineers taking their place unaware of useful information.
Standardizing Knowledge: Power engineering seminars ensure that all shift engineers, maintenance staff and supervisors are aligned both in theory and practice. Their response to specific systems and protocols will be the same and efficient.
Customizations: Unlike generic online seminars and training, TFM seminars are tailored to your facility’s systems, specific needs and safety protocols.
Who Benefits From Power Engineering Seminars
These industries rely heavily on operating engineers and building maintenance teams to keep their equipment running smoothly:
Healthcare Facilities
Hospitals and long-term care facilities have high-pressure boilers, HVAC systems and medical-grade refrigeration. Any equipment failure in these facilities isn’t only expensive, it can be life-threatening, so ensuring that systems are operated efficiently is essential.
Manufacturing Facilities
Food processing, chemical production, and paper mills depend on precise temperature control and pressurized systems.
University Campuses
Universities and school campuses often operate on an independent energy system requiring specially trained personnel to maintain it.
Government Buildings
The infrastructure of these buildings is often old, and the staff maintaining the systems need to be trained on their quirky old systems and updated safety procedures.
It’s common to experience pain points in compliance with regulations, downtime, and gaps in shift coverage training. Custom power engineering seminars are designed to minimize these speed bumps and keep things running smoothly.
What TFM Offers On-Site Teams
The on-site training courses we offer include, but are not limited to:
- 5th Class Power Engineer
- 4th Class Power Engineer
- Refrigeration Plant Operator
- Boiler Basic Safety Awareness
- Refrigeration Basic Safety Awareness
- Boiler Plant Operation and Safety
- Refrigeration Plant Operation and Safety
TFM instructors are certified and experienced experts who have worked in building operations and industrial settings. Training is both technical and contextual for the site-specific equipment. These training programs strategically train your new operators to remove the risk of improper operation and associated downtime.
On-site training reduces incidents and creates safer work environments. Teams react faster in emergencies and are more likely to prevent accidents. You can also consider it an investment in your staff. Training helps make employees feel valued and better prepared, and improves staff retention. As an employer, you can save costs over time by catching any small issues before they escalate and require outside resources to do repairs.
Power engineering seminars are essential to future-proofing your facility. Your equipment is only as reliable as the people running it. TFM Consulting provides on-site training across Canada. If you’re looking to customize a seminar for your team, contact us for a quote.