68 Courses in Edinburgh

ABOUT THIS VIRTUAL INSTRUCTOR LED TRAINING (VILT) This 5 half-day VILT course will comprehensively cover the technical aspects of gas processing. The scope will be from the wellhead through the typical gas processing plant and discuss gas gathering (pipeline hydraulics), natural gas treating (H2S, CO2 removal), acid gas injection and sulfur recovery. One unique aspect of this training course is the operations and troubleshooting discussions in each module. This VILT course is suited to technical personnel or technical management. Training Objectives After the completion of this VILT course, participants will be able to: * Grasp the key specifications of natural gas and liquid products * Understand the physical and transport properties of gases and liquids and liquid-vapor phase behavior * Explore the various technologies for processing natural gas and to make the specifications * Examine the design of the technologies * Learn how to diagnose operating problems to keep facilities running reliably Target Audience This VILT course is intended for all surface technical personnel such as process engineers & technologists, facility engineers and production engineers & technologists. This VILT course will greatly benefit but not limited to: * Process, petroleum and production engineers * Field operators and technicians * Personnel involved in gas treatment and processing * Managers and Supervisors involved with gas processing operations Course Level * Basic or Foundation * Intermediate Training Methods The VILT course will be delivered online in 5 half-day sessions comprising 4 hours per day, with 2 breaks of 10 minutes per day. Course Duration: 5 half-day sessions, 4 hours per session (20 hours in total). The maximum number of participants for this course is 20 persons. Case studies and Exercises: This VILT course will use actual case references throughout its duration in various forms. This will allow the application of the participants' newly-acquired knowledge. Case studies also stimulate independent thinking and discussion among the participants Trainer Your expert course leader has written several papers that have been published in both academic and industry journals. He has over 30 years of industry experience, specializing in gas processing (pipeline hydraulics, separation, dehydration, treating, sulphur recovery and refrigeration processes) and also has experience with crude oil dehydration, stabilization and micro-refining topping plants. He has experience with developing new technology and is recently involved in lithium, waste biomass and used motor oil pyrolysis and geothermal projects. He has recognized expertise in thermodynamics and physical and transport properties of fluids. He has consulted for several EPC and operating companies through his company Chem-Pet Process Tech., and currently holds the role of Director of Technology in an integrated engineering and solutions provider to the energy industry. He is currently involved with a small power-based carbon capture project as well as helping clients determine the best options for utilities decisions. He has been involved with CO2 dehydration and CO2 flood gas treating as well as acid gas injection projects for several years. Highlighted Achievements: * Developed ORC geothermal model to determine the available power from wells in Alberta * Acting on the Technical Advisory Board for E3 Metals, extracting lithium from formation water. * Acted as a Subject Matter Expert for assessing the performance of the Plains Midstream Canada, Empress 1 Deep Cut Straddle Plant in a potential litigation. * Acted as an Expert Witness for JL Transportation patent defence of a dense phase technology. * Process engineer lead on the addition of the new Orloff gas plant for Deltastream. Also troubleshooted the oil battery shipping pump, plate exchanger and FWKO and treater. * Evaluated gas processing and sulphur recovery options for new feeds to the Zhaikmunai Zelenovsky Gas Plant, Kazakhstan (with PM Lucas, Serbia). * Completed capacity analysis for hydrocarbon dew point versus liquid recovery of three trains at Birchcliff Pouce Coupe facility including amine unit, refrigerated gas plant and acid gas injection. * Completed process design for CO2 flue gas dehydration for Husky Energy Inc (with Status Engineering) * Provided simulations of EnCana Foster Creek and Christina Lake and Husky McMullen SAGD facilities (with Vista Projects). Performed process engineering for Cenovus Pelican Lake SAGD pilot (with GRB Engineering) Bear Lake heavy oil polymer injection pilot (with GRB Engineering). * Lead process engineer on the design of IEC Kerrobert crude oil micro-refinery (topping plant). * Provided engineering support and troubleshooting for Enerchem Slave Lake Crude tower and product blending (with Status Engineering). POST TRAINING COACHING SUPPORT (OPTIONAL) To further optimise your learning experience from our courses, we also offer individualized 'One to One' coaching support for 2 hours post training. We can help improve your competence in your chosen area of interest, based on your learning needs and available hours. This is a great opportunity to improve your capability and confidence in a particular area of expertise. It will be delivered over a secure video conference call by one of our senior trainers. They will work with you to create a tailor-made coaching program that will help you achieve your goals faster. Request for further information post training support and fees applicable Accreditions And Affliations

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Based on the book 'Sleep Recovery' by Lisa Sanfilippo, we will work through the 5 steps towards recovering your rest - with a mixture of discussion/information and techniques, tools and practices to assist a better night's sleep.

This will be a gentle class to relax tension in the body and calm the nervous system. We will go through elements of the Simple Sleep Sequence created by Lisa Sanfilippo, as well as restorative poses and techniques from the Sleep Recovery™ toolkit. This is suitable for all levels. 

It is essential that those charged with responsibility for credit control and debt recovery have a full appreciation of the relevant law: no-one can negotiate effectively to recover a debt if they don't understand the ultimate sanctions they can apply. This programme is designed to give them a practical, up-to-date understanding of the law as it applies to your particular organisation. This course will help ensure that participants: * Understand the relevant laws * Know how and when to invoke legal processes * Avoid legal pitfalls in debt collection negotiations Specific, practical learning points include: * Definition of 'harassment' * How to set up an in-house collection identity * Whether cheques in 'full and final settlement' are binding * The best steps to trace a 'gone away'... and many, many more. 1 DATA PROTECTION AND DEBT RECOVERY There are a whole range of things which can be checked on members of the public and which are not affected by the restraints of the Data Protection Act. These will be explained in simple, clear terms so that staff can use this information immediately. 2 COUNTY COURT SUING The expert trainer will show how to sue for money owed, obtain judgment and commence enforcement action without leaving your desk. This module is aimed at showing how to make the Courts work for you instead of the other way around! 3 ENFORCEMENT OF JUDGMENTS There are many people who have a County Court Judgment (CCJ) against their debtor but who still remain unpaid. This session explains each of the enforcement methods and how to use them to best effect. Enforcement methods covered include: * Warrant of Execution * Using the sheriff (now known as High Court Enforcement Officers) * Attachment of earnings * Third Party Debt Orders * Charging Orders (over property and goods) * Winding-up companies and making individuals bankrupt 4 OFFICE OF FAIR TRADING RULES ON DEBT RECOVERY Surprisingly few people are aware of the Office of Fair Trading rules on debt recovery and many of those that do know think they don't apply to them - but they do. Make sure you know what you need to! 5 NEW METHODS TO TRACE ELUSIVE, ABSENTEE AND 'GONE AWAY' DEBTORS Why write the money off when you can trace the debtor and collect the money you are owed? 6 CREDIT CHECKING OF NEW AND EXISTING CUSTOMERS It makes sense to credit check would-be, new and existing customers to evaluate the likelihood of payment delays or perhaps not being paid at all. This session shows a range of credit checking steps, many of which can be done completely free of charge, including a sample credit application / account opening form. 7 LATE PAYMENT OF COMMERCIAL DEBTS REGULATIONS Do your staff understand this legislation and how to use it to make people pay quicker than ever before? The trainer shows how. 8 THE ENTERPRISE ACT The Enterprise Act made some startling changes to corporate and personal insolvency. What are the implications for credit control and debt recovery within your organisation?

This course is designed specifically to help improve your collection rates. The UK's leading trainer in the subject uses practical examples and case studies to show how to use debt collection techniques that really work. This programme will help participants to: * Understand debtors and communicate with them effectively * Improve their telephone and writing skills * Appreciate the key legal issues * Track down 'gone-aways' * Improve their collection rates 1 GIVING CREDIT AND COLLECTING DEBTS * The benefits when you get it right * The cost of getting it wrong 2 ANALYSING YOURSELF * The importance of making the right 'first impression' * Assessing your own personal communication style and how this affects your results * How do you (or might you) look in the debtor's eyes? What would you like to change? 3 ANALYSING YOUR DEBTORS * Types of debtor * The delaying debtor * The genuine debtor * The cashflow or hardship problem debtor * The ones who never intended to pay * Spot the most common reasons and excuses for non-payment - and learn how to deal with them 4 UNDERSTANDING DEBT RECOVERY AND THE LAW * Data protection issues * County Court suing enforcement methods * Human rights and debt recovery * Retention of title matters 5 TELEPHONE SKILLS FOR DEBT RECOVERY * A 7-point plan which works every time * Learning by example: listening to and analysing some pre-recorded (or live) collection calls * What was done well? * What should have been done differently? * Did the collector recognise opportunities? * Did the collector create opportunities where seemingly none existed? * Did the collector negotiate well or not at all? 6 WRITING SKILLS FOR DEBT RECOVERY * Key phrases to avoid * What to include * A sample letter which gets results in over 90% of cases 7 TRACKING DOWN THE 'GONE AWAYS' * A unique debtor-tracing plan * Why spend money on external tracers when you can find those 'gone away' debtors for yourself? 8 COURSE REVIEW * The traps to avoid * Key personal learning points

WINDOWS CLUSTERING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course covers high availability and disaster recovery technologies such as live migration, storage migration and Hyper-V Replica, as well as providing indepth coverage of failover clustering including a detailed implementation of failover clustering of Hyper- V using SoFS. The course also covers System Center Virtual Machine Manager and implementing Network Load Balancing (NLB) and load balancing clusters. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Plan and implement a failover cluster. * Describe managing server roles and clustering resources. * Implement and manage virtual machines. * Use System Center Virtual Machine Manager. * Describe cloud-based storage and high availability solutions. * Implement a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster. WINDOWS CLUSTERING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical staff working with Microsoft clusters. * Prerequisites: Supporting Microsoft Windows server * Duration 3 days WINDOWS CLUSTERING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * High Availability in Windows Server Defining levels of availability, High Availability and disaster recovery solutions with Hyper-V Virtual Machines, High Availability with failover clustering in Windows Server. Hands on Configuring High Availability and Disaster Recovery. * Implementing failover clustering Planning a failover cluster, creating a new failover cluster. Hands on Creating and Administering a Cluster. * Server roles and clustering resources Configuring highly available applications and services on a failover cluster, managing and maintaining a failover cluster, troubleshooting a failover cluster, implementing site high availability with multisite failover clusters. Hands on Managing server roles and clustering resources. * Failover clustering with Hyper-V Overview of integrating Hyper-V with failover clustering, implementing Hyper-V with failover clustering, managing and maintaining Hyper-V Virtual Machines on failover clusters. Hands on Implementing failover clustering by using Hyper-V * Storage Infrastructure Management with Virtual Machine Manager Virtual Machine Manager, managing storage infrastructure with Virtual Machine Manager, provisioning failover clustering in Virtual Machine Manager. Hands on Managing storage infrastructure. * Cloud-Based storage and High Availability Azure storage solutions and infrastructure, cloud integrated storage with StorSimple, disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery. Hands on Managing cloud-based storage and high availability * Network Load Balancing Clusters Overview of NLB, configuring an NLB cluster, planning NLB. Hands on Implementing a Network Load Balancing Cluster

City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Working as Member of a Rescue Team - 6160-08 - The course includes preparing to carry out emergency activities, entering and exiting confined spaces safely, using emergency equipment, casualty recovery and handling devices in accordance with manufacturers’ specifications, rescuing and recovering casualties, following procedures and working safely. Note: A pre-requisite qualification is required to complete this course. Delegates must hold a valid City & Guilds 6160-03 qualification. Book via our website @ https://www.vp-ess.com/training/confined-spaces/6160-08-city-and-guilds-level-3-award-in-working-as-member-of-a-rescue-team/

SECURITY+ TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands on course aimed at getting delegates successfully through the CompTia Security+ examination. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain general security concepts. * Describe the security concepts in communications. * Describe how to secure an infrastructure. * Recognise the role of cryptography. * Describe operational/organisational security. SECURITY+ TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to pass the Security+ exam. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers * Duration 5 days SECURITY+ TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * General security concepts Non-essential services and protocols. Access control: MAC, DAC, RBAC. Security attacks: DOS, DDOS, back doors, spoofing, man in the middle, replay, hijacking, weak keys, social engineering, mathematical, password guessing, brute force, dictionary, software exploitation. Authentication: Kerberos, CHAP, certificates, usernames/ passwords, tokens, biometrics. Malicious code: Viruses, trojan horses, logic bombs, worms. Auditing, logging, scanning. * Communication security Remote access: 802.1x, VPNs, L2TP, PPTP, IPsec, RADIUS, TACACS, SSH. Email: S/MIME, PGP, spam, hoaxes. Internet: SSL, TLS, HTTPS, IM, packet sniffing, privacy, Javascript, ActiveX, buffer overflows, cookies, signed applets, CGI, SMTP relay. LDAP. sftp, anon ftp, file sharing, sniffing, 8.3 names. Wireless: WTLS, 802.11, 802.11x, WEP/WAP. * Infrastructure security Firewalls, routers, switches, wireless, modems, RAS, PBX, VPN, IDS, networking monitoring, workstations, servers, mobile devices. Media security: Coax, UTP, STP, fibre. Removable media. Topologies: Security zones, DMZ, Intranet, Extranet, VLANs, NAT, Tunnelling. IDS: Active/ passive, network/host based, honey pots, incident response. Security baselines: Hardening OS/NOS, networks and applications. * Cryptography basics Integrity, confidentiality, access control, authentication, non-repudiation. Standards and protocols. Hashing, symmetric, asymmetric. PKI: Certificates, policies, practice statements, revocation, trust models. Key management and certificate lifecycles. Storage: h/w, s/w, private key protection. Escrow, expiration, revocation, suspension, recovery, destruction, key usage. * Operational/Organisation security Physical security: Access control, social engineering, environment. Disaster recovery: Backups, secure disaster recovery plans. Business continuity: Utilities, high availability, backups. Security policies: AU, due care, privacy, separation of duties, need to know, password management, SLAs, disposal, destruction, HR policies. Incident response policy. Privilege management: Users, groups, roles, single sign on, centralised/decentralised. Auditing. Forensics: Chain of custody, preserving and collecting evidence. Identifying risks: Assets, risks, threats, vulnerabilities. Role of education/training. Security documentation.

WINDOWS CERTIFICATES TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands-on training course concentrating solely on PKI using Windows certificates. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how PKI works. * Install windows certificates. * Configure windows certificates. * Troubleshoot windows certificates. WINDOWS CERTIFICATES TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical security staff. * Prerequisites: Windows server. * Duration 3 days WINDOWS CERTIFICATES TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * PKI Symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, authentication, digital signing, hashing, certificates, Certification Authorities, Root CA, Intermediate CA, policy CA, Issuing CA, Certificate Revocation Lists. Hands on Inspecting a certificate. * Policies and PKI Security policy, certification policy. * CA hierarchy Impact of CAs on Active Directory, CA architecture, number of tiers, issuing CA organisation, CA configuration files. CA security. Hands on CA installation PKI health tool, monitoring. * Certificate revocation When to revoke, OCSP. Hands on Revoking certificates. * Certificate validation Discovery, validation, checks, revocation checking, certificate chains, certification publication. Hands on Event viewer. * Certificate templates Version 1, version 1, default, modifying templates. Hands on Template management. * Roles Criteria roles, CA administrator, Certificate manager, Backup operator, Auditor. Other PKI management roles. * Disaster recovery Backups, recovery. Hands on certutil. * Issuing certificates The certificate enrolment process, enrolment methods, manual enrolment, automatic enrolment. * Trust between organisations Creating Trust, CTLs, common root CA, cross certification, bridge CA. * Web servers and certificates SSL encryption, certificate authentication. Hands on Web servers. * VPN Hands on Certificate deployment for VPN. * WiFi Hands on 802.1X