Energy & Utility Skills Approval

March 16, 2020

Following an audit on 04 & 05 March 2020, ARCH is now approved as a training provider for Energy & Utility Skills delivering MATS Tower Climber & Tower Rescue for telecommunications industry. This brings a new accreditation to our training course programmes.

The MATS Basic Tower Climbing & Rescue scheme consists of two parts:

  1. an initial 3-day training programme and
  2. a mandatory 1-day annual renewal training programme.

The Mast and Tower Safety (MATS): Basic Tower Climbing & Rescue scheme is a skills-based scheme designed to support the safety of those individuals who work on towers and masts in the telecommunications and broadcast industry. It provides a framework to support consistency and relevance in training provision and assessment of competence.

ARCH looks forward to future collaboration with Energy & Utility Skills in expanding our approved training programmes.