Getting To Grips With Office Facilities BMC Training
Price: AED 24,040
  • Locations: Dubai UAE
  • Duration: 5 Days

    Course details

    Responsibility for office services is often shared and / or given low priority, with the result that efficiency and cost-saving opportunities are lost. This popular course covers all the relevant topics in a day and can be tailored to the very different needs of FM professionals or those without an FM background at all.

    Objectives

    Depending on the particular focus required (see 'Special features', below), this course will give participants:

    • A basic understanding of building services
    • Practical guidance on space audits and relocation projects
    • Tips on cost-saving opportunities
    • Guidelines on supplier contracts
    • An appreciation of health and safety requirements
    • Advice on dealing with equipment suppliers and other third parties
    • An update on fire, security and emergency planning

    Course outline

    Understanding the building

    • Building structure
    • Utility services
    • Heating, ventilation and air conditioning
    • Energy and environmental issues
    • Planning maintenance

    Managing the space

    • What are the functional requirements?
    • What are the physical constraints?
    • Designing for flexibility
    • Ergonomics and choice of furniture
    • Understanding plans
    • Managing relocation
    • Cost-saving opportunities

    Managing the equipment

    • Computers, cabling, printers, etc
    • Telephony
    • Photocopiers, fax machines, etc
    • Vending machines and kitchen equipment
    • Understanding supplier contracts
    • Rent or buy decisions and other cost-saving opportunities

    Managing health and safety

    • Legal requirements
    • Risk assessments
    • Accident reporting
    • Fire safety

    Managing security

    • Security policy
    • Managing security staff / contractors
    • Emergency planning
    • Disaster recovery

    Managing third-party relationships

    • Dealing with landlords and managing agents - know your rights!
    • Selecting suppliers for goods and services
    • Managing suppliers and contractors

    Managing the 'out of office' experience

    • FM responsibility for homeworkers
    • Whose equipment?
    • Health and safety issues

    Updated on 28 October, 2018

    About BMC Training

    BMC Training provides training courses and programms in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. Training is essential to the achievements of a business. Perhaps its most positive benefit is better employees. A company develop the potential of an employee, and part of the way a company encourages improvement is through training. Often, good training is just as important as a good benefits package for an employee.

    For employers, training allows them to locate a wider range of people with the kind of outlook that matches the company mission statement. The right kind of perspective is a hard thing to cultivate, whereas workplace specific proficiencies are easier to nature. The other advantage employers should remember about training is it offers them an improved retention rate. Employees are more loyal to companies that value their growth and want to cultivate it, and thusly provide a better performance and decrease the rollover rate at any company, no matter how small or large. If an employee thinks a company values him or her, that sentiment will go into whatever the employee is designing, selling, manufacturing, etc.

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