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For their third team-building event, our Dispatch department chose to go bowling. A rather more sedate activity than their previous team-building events, axe throwing and go-karting, and considerably less fear-inducing for the rest of us! Catch up with what happened below. Continue reading →

On the 30th of January 2023, Team Training joined the Rudds Arms quiz and pitted their wits against nine other teams. Our Training Centre Manager, Carole Jameson, lets us know how it all went. Read on to find out how Team Training, sorry Gen3, did, and see if you can match them point-for-point in the picture round. Continue reading →

It is no secret that the cost-of-living crisis, rising global temperatures, and approaching climate targets have created more pressure than ever to reduce our energy consumption. For over a year, we have published multiple reports on councils, charities, and utility companies harnessing thermal imaging to identify sources of heat loss around homes, in a bid to reduce both energy bills and carbon emissions. We are very pleased and proud to reveal that we have played a significant role in one of these stories: that of Octopus Energy lending Teledyne FLIR Thermal Cameras to its customers as part of its Octo Assist customer support initiative. As Teledyne FLIR’s number one UK supplier, we initially provided three-hundred Teledyne FLIR One Pro Thermal Smartphone Attachments for Octopus Energy’s thermal camera loan program. Now, thanks to the popularity of the project, we have had the privilege of supplying a further one hundred and seventy new Teledyne FLIR One Edge Pro Thermal Smartphone Attachments. We are delighted to know that these cameras will go towards helping Octopus Energy’s customers lower their energy consumption, emissions, and expenditure. Continue reading →

Having tackled the Marketing Team’s collective acrophobia, we decided that confronting our claustrophobia during peak cold and flu (and presumably Covid) season was the way to go with our second team-building experience. That’s why, before Christmas, we chose to take on Cluedini’s Hex escape room. We had just sixty minutes to solve the clues, crack padlocks, and find the crystals and spells needed to prevent a local witch from unleashing her curse on Yarm as revenge for her great-grandmother’s unlawful killing. The stakes were high! Continue reading →

In 2016, PASS Ltd provided Devonshire-based beef and poultry farmer and recipient of Tesco’s Future Farmer Foundation Scholarship, Christina Hutchings, with a FLIR C2 Thermal Imaging Camera for her research into understanding ventilation to improve litter conditions in broiler houses. Now, that highly anticipated report, titled Where does all the water go? How a better understanding of ventilation can be used to improve litter conditions in broiler houses, has been published. In addition to detailing her in-depth investigations which Hutchings draws on to make several suggestions on improving barn ventilation, the report illustrates the critical role thermal imaging can play in farming. Continue reading →

Of course, our highly competitive Sales team couldn't resist trying their hands at axe throwing. Thankfully everyone came back alive and with their limbs intact. Read on to find out how our Sales department's "team building" experience at Hatchet Harry's went! Continue reading →

As businesses and schools reopen after the Christmas break, now is the time to test for Legionella pneumophilia bacteria that may have built up in stagnant water systems. With all the chaos of last year, it is understandable that stories about outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease were not at the top of news feeds. Nevertheless, several such stories broke in 2022, and, if we don’t want a repeat of this in 2023, it is imperative that we all take precautionary measures. Continue reading →

Having successfully imitated Vikings during their previous team outing, this time around the Training department decided to try their hand at being detectives. Keep reading to find out if they managed to crack the codes and get out of Project Escape Middlesbrough's Sherlock Mystery Manor! Continue reading →

Taking inspiration from the Training Team, for their second team-building experience our Dispatch Department decided to go axe throwing. Below is a characteristically brief summary of what happened. Continue reading →

Having successfully escaped from Lumley Castle's dungeons with just two seconds to spare, our Calibration Admin department decided that their next team-building experience ought to be a bit less stressful. In October, they travelled up to Newcastle for a round of Ghetto Golf. Continue reading →