Closing out January 2025, we hosted our first official Pilz machinery safety training course at our Stoke branch, marking a significant milestone and achievement for both the branch and BPX as a whole! This milestone not only strengthens our relationship with Pilz as machine safety partners, but also opens the door to supporting other machine safety training courses across our nationwide network of branches in partnership with them in the future.
Our Staffordshire based BPX branch hosted 8 delegates, from 6 businesses, across 4 days, to complete the Pilz City & Guilds Machinery Safety Training Course, of which Nick Simms (BPX Stoke) and Frank Ruiz (BPX Wakefield) were recently certificated in and are now better informed, and qualified, when discussing machine and industrial safety with our customers.
On visiting and observing, Pilz UK Channel Partner Manager Rhiannon Gibson stated, “Everyone looked comfortable, happy and engaged, which is exactly what makes the course a success. The delegates all said it had been a fantastic opportunity so far. The exposure they have now had to BPX as a whole solution provider is fantastic and I am sure will help you with growth both with Pilz but also your other manufacturer partnerships.”
“Thank you for the support you are showing Pilz with hosting this course, it is an absolute pleasure to work with such driven and proactive people who genuinely care about their work at BPX and their customers.”
The four-day City & Guilds Machinery Safety Training Course equips engineers with essential knowledge on safety standards, CE marking, machine guarding, and safety-related control systems, ensuring delegates are well-prepared to meet industry requirements and keep operations safe. Specifically designed for electrical and mechanical engineers, engineering managers, and professionals working with machinery, the course emphasises safety protocols essential in today’s fast-evolving industrial environments.
“Perfect, a brilliant 4-day course and brilliant hosts.”
– Delegate A.
The delegates appeared to enjoy the course and our hospitality, but more importantly gained a lot of knowledge and experience from the 4-day course, assured by City & Guilds. Following their completion of it, we asked the delegates to fill out our ‘Training Venue Feedback’ form which ranks each of our considerations on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the best).
Pilz City & Guilds Assured 4 Day Machinery Safety Course Handout – Click to View
Across the delegates, we received average scores as follows:
- Location – 9.5
- Ease of Travel – 9.4/10
- Parking Facilities – 8.5/10
- Training Room Comfort – 9.5/10
- Food & Beverage Quality – 8.9/10
- Hospitality/Welcome – 10/10
- Training Room Facilities – 9.9/10
The Pilz City & Guilds Machinery Safety Training Course is just one of our many customer training courses taking place in 2025. Please feel free to review our customer training programme here and boost your knowledge, not only in machine safety, but in a wide range of industrial control and automation aspects too.
