October 2020

BFPA News Contact the BFPA at Tel: +44 (0)1608 647900 • Fax: +44 (0)1608 647919 • Email: enquiries@bfpa.co.uk • Web: www.bfpa.co.uk Face to face audits for the BFPA Approved Hose Assembly Scheme have now resumed. Covid-19 secure procedures have been put in place for BFPA’s auditor, Martin Kingsbury, to complement each member company’s own procedures. For more information about the BFPA Approved Hose Assembly Scheme, including how to apply to be a member and a map locator of how to find your local Q-audited hose assembly supplier, please visit www.hydraulichosesafety.co.uk or email martin@bfpa.co.uk BFPA Training Courses Dates for BFPA’s Open Course Training Programme in November in Milton Keynes are as follows: 9 November BFPA Safety Foundation training course 10-11 November BFPA Hose Assembly Skills training course 12 November BFPA Hydrostatic Proof Pressure Testing course 13 November BFPA Hose Integrity, Inspection and Management training course Dates for BFPA’s Open Course Training Programme in November in Chesterfield are as follows: 7 December BFPA Safety Foundation training course 8-9 December BFPA Hose Assembly Skills training course 10 December BFPA Hose Integrity, Inspection and Management training course 11 December BFPA Hydrostatic Proof Pressure Testing course We will continue to offer the BFPA online training programme to help provide an alternative route to access our training courses for both our members and the fluid power industry as a whole. For further information on course availability or to discuss dates and costs please email karen@bfpa.co.uk or visit www.bfpatrainingacademy.co.uk BFPA is encouraging its members to prepare for Brexit and the end of the Transition period by checking the requirements for the new UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) product mark which will be used for goods being placed on the market in Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) from 1 January 2021. The UKCA marking will apply to most goods currently subject to the CE marking. More information can be found at www.gov.uk but companies are advised to contact their Notified Bodies as soon as possible to understand their options for conformity assessment for the UK and EU markets. BFPA, along with other trade association has been liaising with BEIS through EAMA, and has supported several free webinars by BEIS on topics such as the UKCA and CE marks from January 2021 and The Border Operating Model . For more information on these topics and webinars please contact ChrisBuxton@bfpa.co.uk UPDATES BFPA resumes face to face Approved Hose Assembly Scheme Audits Brexit preparedness Chris Buxton, BFPA CEO writes: It gives me great pleasure to recognise the fact that this year is Sarah Gardner’s Silver Jubilee year having been with BFPA for 25 years in September 2020! On behalf of her colleagues at the BFPA, the Board and BFPDA Council and all our members, I’d like to say a big thank you and we look forward to working with Sarah for years to come. When I asked Sarah for her reflections on the past 25 years she commented; “I can’t believe it’s been 25 years since I started work at the BFPA having been recruited by the then Director Neil Percival. I think the one thing which stands out for me is the great people I have come into contact with from our member companies over all those years, many of whom reply to the surveys which still form the main part of my role here at the BFPA. So, I’d like to thank them, and everyone else I have worked with over my 25 years at BFPA, for their support”. Sarah Gardner celebrates 25 years at BFPA