Servicing Cleaning Machines at a Cumbria Prison
Recently one of our engineers found themselves detained in Cumbria at one of Her Majesty's Category C Prisons . I know what you are thinking but he was actually there servicing cleaning machines that were intended to be used for cleaning carpets, altro and vinyl flooring . Cumbria is a large county in North West England and the prison that requested the servicing houses over 600 prisoners. It was built on the site of an old RAF training centre which was converted into a prison facility in 1967. Whilst some of the prison's workshops and offices are housed in buildings from that era, most have been extensively modernised over the years. Assessing the Machines and Environment The facility and its flooring is quite diverse and all prisoners take part in full time employment and/or training. Workshops on site include timber manufacturing eg, the inmates make garden furniture which is sold to the public, construction, plastering, horticulture (they grow their own vegetables) and...