TRAIN THE PAINTER BRONZE

Train the Painter Bronze (TTP Bronze) is the mandatory first step painter course for all those wanting a recognised coating training certifice. 

The benefits of Train the Painter are vast from setting the foundations to a successful industrial painting career, to gaining confidence in your ability as a industrial painter and benchmarks are set for good industrial painting practice around the world.

• SSPC Train the Painter meets the requirements of NACE/ SSPC standard (SSPC-ACS-1/NACE No.13).
• SSPC has now combined with NACE to form a powerful Association for Materials Protection & Performance (AMPP).
• Internationally accredited training by SSPC which is recognised worldwide.
• Meets the requirement for NORSOK M501 trained paint applicators for offshore.
• Clients have more confidence in trained paint applicators.
• Reduction in rework due to painting applicator errors.
• Ability to delegate tasks to trained and competent operatives.
• Training is available in a classroom. environment or online using our unique web-based platform (study from home).
• Applicators learn to understand, appreciate and look after equipment through comprehensive practical training modules.

An industrial painting course provides a fully recognised and accredited qualification that has been specifically designed by industry paint experts. 

Many coating applicator industries now require personnel to obtain professional painter certificates to showcase and verify skill, knowledge and safety of the industrial painter prior to allowing on a work site. 

Here at Dangles Academy we can help you achieve Industrial Painter Certification through our approved Train the Painter courses.

Compared to a painting and decorating job on a commercial level, an industrial painter typically deals with more preparation and more skill often over much larger surfaces, due to the nature of the metal surfaces to be painted being much bigger than a house or office block. 

Industrial painting will involve a better understanding of metal surfaces and the environment in which those metal surfaces operate. 

An industrial coating applicator will typically work to much tighter deadlines with more time constraints, however a highly trained and skilled industrial painter can take on these challenges producing the required result, which is ually dictated by a coating specification from the client or coating manufacturer (or both).

While commercial painting has more to do with aesthetics, the scope of industrial painting goes far beyond, and is more often than not done in an environment that is used for some form of manufacturing purpose. 

The primary focus with industrial painting or coating is with corrosion protection, durablity and asset life cycle. As for the most part industrial painting is safety and/or quality critical. 

Perhaps the most common benefit of industrial painting is that it helps mitigate corrosion, however some other important factors behind industrial painting are to help fireproofing and to reduce energy consumption.

Due to the intensive nature of industrial processes, structual and mechanical components can begin to break down when placed in certain environments after only a matter of months without adequate protection. In addition, industrial coatings are essential for assets and equipment that may be exposed to water within offshore or marine environements.

Industrial paints and coatings can contain a number of different substances. Some of these can harm you by causing a number of short and long-term health problems including:

• skin, eye and mucous membrane irritation
• headaches, dizziness and sickness
• lung problems
• effects on the nervous system, blood, liver and kidneys
• cancer

If not properly controlled, solvents within coatings can also create a serious immediate risk to you because they give off vapours. At high amounts, these vapours can cause headaches, drowsiness and even unconsciousness. Breathing this mix of toxic air can make you very ill very quickly. 

So it's really important only correctly trained industrial painters, with the correct level of knowledge and skill, deal with the mixing and application of industrial paints which we teach on the Train the Painter course at Dangle's Academy.

Our Train the Painter qualified coating applicator certification is approved by Lloyd’s Register, the most respected classification society in the world.

Certification validates Coating Applicators, Spray Painters and Abrasive Blast Cleaners’ practical skills and theoretical knowledge to the highest standards. Certified Operatives will be equipped to perform their daily duties to the highest level of safety, whilst protecting the environment, reducing waste, extending equipment life, and generally reducing the economic impact of corrosion which following a study by NACE and SSPC (prior to merging to form AMPP) suggest the global cost of corrosion is estimated to be US $2.5 trillion, which is equivalent to 3.4% of the global GDP.

Verification of a Industrial Painter can be found online by visiting the Train the Painter Directory