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The 2025 SHiFT Conference

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Smart Awards

Smart Awards is a nationally recognised Awarding Organisation committed to excellence and innovation. We operate as a fully independent legal entity and are proud to be a subsidiary of the Hexatronic Group AB (PUBL).

We work with highly regarded industry representatives and employees through our strategic partnerships within the telecommunications, construction and utility sectors, ensuring our products and services are at the cutting edge of current standards.

Our Commitment to Health and Safety

At Smart Awards, we are dedicated to supporting SHiFT towards enhanced health and safety practices across our industries. We continuously update our products and services to incorporate the latest health and safety protocols and technology, ensuring that every learner is equipped to handle the complexities of today’s work environments safely and efficiently.

Our Expertise

We specialise in three core areas:

  • Awarding: We offer a range of ground-breaking regulated and non-regulated qualifications that have been developed with the support of industry and key stakeholders. We are approved and externally quality assured by Ofqual and SQA Accreditation to offer regulated qualifications in England and Scotland.
  • End Point Assessment – for apprenticeships: We are approved by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), the Institute of Apprenticeships and Technical Education, and Ofqual as an End Point Assessment Organisation to offer End Point Assessment for apprenticeship standards.
  • Network Operative Passport Scheme (NOPS): The scheme is a method of regulating and ensuring individuals have achieved standards in their occupational training and related Health and Safety standards to carry out work on the utilities/ telecommunications network safely and to the agreed quality standards.

Our Vision & Mission

Our vision is to be a modern, forward-thinking awarding organisation that consistently offers innovative products and services aligned with industry standards. Our mission is to elevate industry standards by developing cutting-edge products and services that empower learners, equipping them with the skills and knowledge to perform their jobs safely and confidently.

PQMS

PQMS limited, established in 1999, is a leading independent training and management consultancy headquartered in Bedworth UK. With additional centres in Bury, Pulborough and Livingston, PQMS provides extensive training coverage across the United Kingdom.

PQMS specialises in providing tailored training programmes across key industry verticals such as Telecommunications, Heath and Safety and Construction. Recent additions to their portfolio include NPORS plant training, Lantra Traffic training and a new Drone Academy launched Feb 2025. As a practitioner and trainer of health and safety in the workplace, PQMS is an avid supporter of SHiFT and their goals to improve health and safety across the fibre community.

Pro Safety Management

Pro Safety Management offers bespoke health and safety solutions tailored to the unique needs of the Telecoms and Data Centre industry.

Our 30-day Elite Support programme could transform your operational compliance from being worried about major non-compliance to being an industry leader.

Serving some of the global leading telecoms companies, we provide specialist and strategic health and safety management, ISO compliance and CDM training to ensure that your business operates efficiently, safely, and to the highest quality standards.

Company LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/pro-safety-management/

ProGARM

ProGARM is the only UK manufacturer concentrating on and specialising 100% in Arc Flash and Flame Resistant garments for businesses like yours.

With multiple cable strikes every day in the UK and numerous major Arc Flash incidents too, businesses are looking at how best to protect their team with the right Arc Flash and Flame Resistant protective garments. Garments that are proven to significantly reduce or even totally prevent injury; and garments that save lives

Tetra

The Team at Tetra have been developing, testing, supplying and training people in the safe use of our ladder safety systems since 1999.

To date we have supplied 100,000 + Tetra systems and work with more than 2000 clients nationally and internationally.

These include the UK’s biggest ladder users, through to sole traders, and everyone in between.

Tetra are a Safety Company, First & Foremost, and we pride ourselves on friendly professional support, experience, unrivalled attention to detail, and extensive testing evidence to prove suitability.

Please see www.tetrasafetysystems.com or for information on our H&S Consulting Business please see www.tetraconsulting.co.uk

Oxford plastics

Building on our established foundations as a leading innovator in the manufacture of site safety equipment, Oxford Plastics are committed to the design, creation and supply of best-in-class products for an ever-changing world.

Our problem-solving capabilities and can-do attitude underpin our future success, inform our environmental responsibilities, and reinforce our position as THE trusted leader in our industry.

The innovation we pride ourselves on ensures the continued growth of our business as we strive to make the future a safer, more sustainable and rewarding place for our colleagues, partners and clients.

Whatever the challenge, we’ve got it covered.

The UK’s Leading Supplier of Construction Site Safety Equipment