About Icon Training and Assessment
Icon was formed in July 2000. The policy back then and still today is to deliver
quality training and assessment services at the best price, whilst ensuring minimum
disruption and production loss to your business.
Our core work in the first 12 months of our existence was the training and assessment
of the Domestic Accredited Certification Scheme (ACS). Our unique bundle process
allowed us to assess multiple ACS elements by cross reference of assessment criteria
in half of the time required in other assessment centres. When this was combined
with a competitive price structure via the ICON PRICEWATCH SCHEME, the ICON way
became irresistible to Gas Safe operatives.
The popularity of our domestic scheme soon generated a demand for a similar scheme
in the Industrial and commercial gas sector. In partnership with Zurich certification
a similar process was produced with equal success over the following months.
The ideas and principles that where developed throughout this period have been nurtured
and cultivated to provide a broad range of services to the ELECTRICAL industry as
well as the GAS and CONSTRUCTION sectors. Courses such as the City & Guilds
2382 (17th Edition) and the City & Guilds 2391 (Inspection and Testing) are
now available at our centres.
At ICON we provide a service which requires a sensitive, sympathetic and pragmatic
approach. All of our training and assessment staff are approachable, friendly and
professional. Our aim is to make your stay with us memorable for all the right reasons.
You should leave us with your knowledge enriched and your working competence improved,
whether you have completed our GAS FITTING PROGRAMME, Electrical 16th Edition or
renewed your ACS qualifications.
The Gas, Electrical, Building and Construction industries are constantly refining
their processes and regulatory requirements. At ICON we adjust and develop our services
so that you will always keep up to date. We have been market leaders in all of our
services from career change programmes (Gas fitting or Electrical Domestic installer
programmes) to the ACS.
Here at ICON we DEDUCE, DEVELOP and DELIVER whilst others DITHER. Courses such as
the DISQ cover the electrical requirements of the BUILDING REGULATIONS PART P which
came into force in 2005. It is also envisaged that the Electrical sector will produce
a new set of regulations in 2007 (17th Edition) and that the Gas Safety (Installation
and Use) Regulations will be replaced within the next eighteen months, so watch
this space!
At ICON we provide a guarantee that our service will be of the highest quality.
Our ISO9001 status provides an assurance that all aspects of our commercial services
are carried out with strict adherence to the methods and principles of this code
of practice.
At ICON we constantly strive to deliver a training, assessment and auditing service
to meet your specific needs. To this end we constantly evaluate our service and
refine our products through procedures borne from ISO9001.