Oil deal for safety firm
To most people Kazakhstan means one thing: Borat!
But spoof documentaries aside, the former Soviet state is one of the world's great oil and gas producers and a Wigan firm is cashing in.
Shevington-based Advanced Food Safety Limited has assisted the first company in Kazakhstan to achieve the prestigious ISO 22000 Food Safety Management certification standard.
The company, TupkaraganBorg, is a specialist catering service provider, specialising in remote oil and gas construction sites.
Russell Parry, director of Advanced Food Safety, said: "This has been an excellent project for us. Being able to assist a company so far away to achieve what is a very stringent food safety standard is a great achievement.
"We were initially contacted by TupkaraganBorg in 2006 to provide our Allsafe food safety distance learning training courses which had to be translated into Russian.
"This then led to providing the company with our management packs and consultancy support, including visits to off-shore facilities in the Caspian Sea in order to ensure they achieved the standard first time round which I am pleased to say they did.
"The company's catering and quality manager visited Wigan last year to take an Advanced Level Food Safety course we were running locally.
"Even with the language barrier with the exams having to be taken in English, he passed with no problem."
Advanced Food Safety, winner of Training Company of the Year, develops and provides food safety distance learning courses worldwide.
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