Gerry Brennan – Coral Leisure Group Health & Safety Manager

Gerry Brennan – Coral Leisure Group Health & Safety Manager
 
With 20+ years’ experience in the industry and an IOSH qualification Gerry Brennan is the ideal company Health & Safety representative. As well as holding all the industry standard qualifications Gerry is a certified ILSE Risk Assessor, an IWS Pool Lifeguard Provider and a Guardian Safety Fire Warden Trainer.

During his time with the Coral Group, both Gerry and Coral Leisure have invested heavily in both time and resources to ensure Gerry’s ongoing education and skill development.  Uniquely, Coral Leisure now has an in-house provider for many of the essential elements of staff training required to run a modern leisure facility.

Gerry Brennan – Coral Leisure Group Health & Safety Manager

​Having someone as highly qualified in so many relevant and technical areas already on our staff has a number of very positive benefits to Coral Leisure and subsequently the centres we manage. The most obvious benefit, being cost savings. Modern health and safety laws in the workplace for both customers and staff mean ongoing Health & Safety Audits are required along with annual training for current staff and new staff; such as Manual Handling and Fire Warden training, all of which Gerry is qualified to instruct.  

In addition to the regulatory training required, industry specific training is also required in the form of Lifeguard training, First Aid Skills and Swim Teacher Training; again all of which Gerry can provide in each of the centres across the group

The cost savings of having this service already available in house are significant. In one example for providing only some of the services Gerry could provide, one of our centres was quoted over €9,000 by outside contractors, as opposed to the cost of utilising Gerry which was €1,500. That was a saving of over €7,500 in just one year. That’s an ongoing saving annually because of an asset like Gerry Brennan on the staff at Coral Leisure.

Gerry’s many qualifications include the following:
IOSH Managing Safely H&S,
ILSE Risk Assessor for Bathing Areas
FETEC Level 6 Manual Handling,
Guardian Safety Fire Warden.
VDU Risk Assessment,
FETEC Train the Trainer,
IWS Examiner,
IWS Pool Lifeguard Provider,
IWS Swim Teacher Tutor,
PHECC Cardiac First Response instructor

To find out more about what Coral Leisure and Gerry can do for your Leisure Facility, Contact Siobhan Tighe, Managing Director  at  siobhan.tighe@coralleisure.ie 
or David Moore, Operations Director  at  david.moore@coralleisure.ie