ACR Journal

December 2021 | January 2022 NEWS 12 Volume 8 No.1 FOUNDER BAILEY READY TOWAVE GOODBYE WAVE Refrigeration founder James Bailey is leaving the business in December following a successful six years and the transition to employee ownership. He has launched a new company, OMEGA Solutions (www.omega-solutions.co.uk) , which will provide a range of services including engineering and management training to help support companies achieve net zero carbon emissions. Bailey has led WAVE in supporting its customers in the move away from HFC refrigerants to a range of low carbon technologies, including CO 2 and HFOs. Whilst driving innovation is a key objective of WAVE, he insists that his proudest accomplishments have been the success the business has had with cultivating the next generation of engineering professionals and becoming employee owned. He said: “The enthusiasm that our younger employees possess helped make the decision to transition to employee ownership easy. I am beyond proud of their development and many successes. Their development is also a testament to our more experienced colleagues.” WAVE becoming employee owned coincided with the business ranking #1 of all small Investors in People accredited companies who operate in and around the construction sector. Following these milestones, Bailey started work on his first book; Culture Redefined. Pulling on his academic background and business experience, the book is endorsed by Investors in People and introduces stakeholder capitalism as a business management theory that has the potential to shape a fairer society whilst improving our natural environment. He said: “The narrative style of Culture Redefined is one of informing, reinforming and reinforcing, supporting the reader in gaining knowledge transfer. The target audience are those who are interested in the principles of stakeholder capitalism, including experienced management professionals and business owners; people with limited management experience but who have a grounding in business management theory; students who have an interest in business and management; and people interested in exploring employee ownership as a fair and equitable business operating model. Culture Redefined identifies the importance that generation Z will have in shaping a better future and the role we all have to play in improving society and the environment.” Paul Devoy, CEO of Investors in People, said: “This book highlights exactly what a great leader looks like, the challenges they must overcome, the questions they must ask themselves and what a great company looks like too. Many congratulations to James on what I am sure will be a remarkable success, just like WAVE, as well as a useful tool to many current and aspiring leaders.” • Independently published, Culture Redefined: A Leadership Strategy Towards Business Capitalism: A Time for Change is available in paperback (£9.99) and Kindle format (£3.99) on Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3BbFBOW and https://amzn.to/2ZY66K3 , respectively. Tracking F-Gas compliance Joblogic and REFCOM have collaborated to launch a software module in the UK aimed at ensuring F-Gas compliance. It is also said to make it simpler and faster for HVAC engineers to comply since they can now input the data directly into a compliant logbook via a mobile app. Legislation demands that an engineer must track and record any movement of refrigerant gas in an o cial logbook. There also needs to be a back-o ce system that shows all the work completed on equipment. Greg Hill, principal consultant at Joblogic, said: “While it is possible to record work completed on paper-based systems this can be time consuming and lead to errors when a second person inputs the data into the back-o ce system. With each piece of equipment and all the cylinders having their own logbooks, it can take time to find all the necessary paperwork, discover what needs completing on an asset, do the work and then fill in each of the logbooks with all the correct information. “Using the REFCOM F-Gas Tracking Module, the engineer will know what work they need to do before they arrive to ensure that they have the right tools and equipment to get it right first time. Having completed the work they simply input the relevant information into the Joblogic Refcom app on their phone or tablet which will then automatically populate the online logbooks and the back-o ce systems to save time and avoid any errors.” Further time savings are said to be possible if a company decides to use QR codes to identify individual assets within an HVAC system, since the engineer can then simply scan the equipment to find out about its service history and the work that needs doing. This will also automatically find the form for that asset to make it easier and faster to complete and record the job. With each asset in a system having its own logbook, automating the track and trace system will save hours of time so that the engineer can complete more work. Graeme Fox, head of technical for REFCOM, said: “We wanted a software system that would report data straight into the correct forms to ensure compliance. We also wanted to make the task simpler and faster for our members and take advantage of all the technology that is available to ensure accurate track and trace, such as for example using QR codes. “It is vital that HVAC engineers are fully compliant with F-Gas legislation and there have been occasions where data has been missed or the logbook has been incorrectly filled in so that a job was not compliant. This is generally an honest mistake and people may not even realise that they have not met the legislative needs.” All Refcom members will receive a free user licence for the new software module which includes a back-o ce reporting system, logbooks and the facility to add the mobile app for an engineer. This allows an organisation to plan and schedule future maintenance work and customise and produce reports in whatever format they want. For a demonstration of the Joblogic Refcom F-Gas tracking and compliance software, visit https://www.joblogic.com/ features/fgas-compliance-software/