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"Master Class sessions are helping Chevron to sustain learning offshore and, at the same time, address many of the Health & Safety Executive's (HSE) key elements for process safety leadership..."
Chevron Upstream Europe Insight Issue 23 2008
"The growing demand for training in the health and safety sector has prompted [Robert Gordon University] Aberdeen Business School to develop a new course which has now been accredited by the Institution of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH). The MSc in Health, Safety and Risk Management begins shortly with its first cohort of executives who are hoping that the formal management qualification will help them to progress in this rapidly expanding area of expertise..."
RGU: News Review, August 2008
(note - Tucson North International's Managing Director, Paul Cormack, is an RGU lecturer for this MSc and an active member of the IOSH Professional Committee).
"Demonstrated an easy, inclusive approach and a broad
knowledge of the
subject matter. A well presented and structured course that gave to lively
participation of all attendees...no hesitation in recommending this course"
Client Comment, February 2006
"Standard of instruction was excellent. Full knowledge of the subject
(reliability) and time given for individual and group questions"
Client
Comment, February 2006
"It is important that parents are involved in
their children's employment, particularly when the economy may be restricting
choice. Parents are usually the best choice of whether a young worker
will consistently choose the safer option..."
Tucson North MD, The Challenge for Young Workers; Recruitment
Feature: Aberdeen Press & Journal, June 2002
"...concise and clear approach... the introductory purpose and principles
are particulary good... provides a more comprehensive and comprehensible
explanation of the management structure and the arrangements in place
to deliver their safety policy"
Independent Review of a Tucson North Client Assignment
(Safety Management System); ChevronTexaco, May 2002
Supporting the Texaco organisation during their recent Permit to Work and, later their Process and Mechanical Isolation System reviews, Tucson North provided a novel approach to better agree changes required and incorporate the expertise of the Texaco offshore workforce. This featured in a StepChange in Safety publication, July 2000. |
In 1998, documentation developed by people at Tucson North was featured in the offshore industry's Step Change in Safety publication Communicating the Safety Case "How do you develop effective print material".
"Tucson North has achieved the first NVQ in Strategic Management
at Level 5 ... to achieve the best solutions for client operations..."
EMTA Awards, February 1999
"it was evident that the assessment records sampled during the external
verification visit were valid and related directly to the company's standards
of competence, that the need to develop staff to run the programme was
addressed and that the internal verification process was robust..."
OPITO, May 1996
"...competence is providing a generic solution to a number of organisational
challenges, it will also provide us with a solid basis for achieving success
in a significantly more challenging industry in time to come..."
Setting the Standard Offshore, World Expro Magazine, March 1996
"the training needs assessments are based on a thorough analysis
of the skills and competencies needed for offshore operations..."
Texaco Inc. (USA) Audit, July 1995
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In July 2000 the World Corporate Games were held in Aberdeen Scotland. Tucson North’s staff and associates exceeded all expectations by bringing home GOLD MEDALS for winning the Triad (team swim-cycle-run) and then taking more GOLD for having the leading "Ladies Over-40" competitor. In the following weeks, one of the ‘Running Cactus’ T-shirts specially created for this team by Oxygen8 and Printagraph was used in a charity run in Tucson, Arizona! |
