The Faraday Centre Reviews

Would be nice to have an old ROV PDU and HVJB for the practical. Experienced ROV pilots know setup and the risks but new starters don’t. They need more hands on.

Course had fantastic potential, served it’s purpose well, Delivery was shambolic, from presentations that should have been at the start being delivered at the end, to course notes and activities being planned out during the course and multiple runs to the printer being carried out each and every exercise, there was very little in the way of communication between us allowed or facilitated, with all questions resulting in confusion and confrontation, normally due to a misunderstanding or misunderstanding or miss hearing, on the end of the lecturer, very hard work from start to finish and completely not necessary. Also the centre has equipment that we as a company use as do others who were on the course but we never did any work on that stuff. Again could be more useful if handled better. Also due to comments being read out and discussed after submission I have had to remove comments due to the confrontation my peers received. This would be better not addressed, and could and should be anonymous

More content and practical required

The lecturers were amazing course meterial is is not brilliant it does not flow with the lectures material hard to follow

Positives - Well presented course notes, very professional and friendly instructor, excellent practical room. Negatives - course notes contained many errors, both grammatical and information errors. Course was not specific to offshore operations or the equipment we work on. Course was essentially a repeat of SAP 1 & 2. Instructor was not given enough time to adequately prepare for delivery of the course. Lack of communication/ liaison with RWE offshore safety Rules team seemed to be the root of the problem. RWE Operation Safety Rules in the course notes were not the current version. All in all, the course needs a complete re write to be more relevant to our work activities. We were not able to physically do any practical, live testing... we need to practice actual, live testing, not just watch it being done.

The lecturer, John Stanley, was well mannered, knowledgeable and informative. The course would have assisted me better if practice example scenarios were provided and how the schedules and the permits are to be written to comply with the CBRE structure of how they would like them to be completed. Feedback from all exams I have completed would assist me to where I may have gone wrong would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Marc

The training is not suited for a new/potential authorised person as it doesn’t emphasise on calving schedules, valving diagrams and how to write permits and isolation certificate. The training is suited for experienced AP’s, SAP’s.

Lecturer was good.. Course was based on old rwe rules. Food was very poor

Course content was quite condensed for only 2 days. As someone who hasn't worked with most of the test equipment before it was helpful to have hands on experience.

Good course, but not the usual amount of practical exercises as in previous S5s. Perhaps the higher number of candidates on the course prevented this?