Danatec Educational Services Ltd. Acquires ESPS Electrical Safety Program Solutions Inc.

Danatec

 

August 17, 2017

Danatec Educational Services Inc., has acquired ESPS Electrical Safety Program Solutions Inc. (www.esps.ca). This acquisition builds on Danatec’s 30+ year history of delivering regulated safety and compliance training across Canada. With the fast growth of the electrical safety industry, this partnership will give Danatec access to a broader customer and reseller base in both Canada and the USA, and an opportunity for the development of new training certification products and a deeper level of sophisticated consulting services and products to a burgeoning section of the safety industry.

ESPS, founded and lead by Terry Becker, P.Eng, CESCP has been an industry leader in electrical safety consulting, products and arc ash & shock training solutions since its inception in 2007. Known and respected for bringing passion and commitment to every client engagement, ESPS offers industry- leading electrical safety consulting and a suite of licensed Electrical Safety Program products and training solutions that include both online electrical safety and instructor-led certification training solutions. Together the application of the ESPS processes and systems are used to mitigate worker exposure to electrical hazards or reduce risk and provide the best due diligence for the worker and the employer.

ESPS’s core web-based training product, the Electrical Safety Training System (ESTS), is well known by the electrical safety industry for online electrical safety training certification as it relates to the CSA Z462 and NFPA 70E Standards. The ESTS Electrical Worker 4-hour self-paced online course covers, among other competencies; regulations, consensus based Standards, electrical hazard identification, risk assessment procedure, establishing an electrically safe work condition, application of the hierarchy of controls to reduce risk, electrical specific PPE, tools & equipment, electrical incident reporting, electrical emergency response and includes work task scenarios. The course uses interactive 2D and 3D elements, videos and simulations to deliver core electrical safety learning outcomes. 

Alina Martin, President & CEO of Danatec, comments: “Danatec is well-poised to tackle other markets such as the electrical safety industry. This industry has been largely under-serviced and traditionally not as heavily regulated as many others over the years. Our acquisition will marry the ESPS subject matter expertise with our deep knowledge of regulated spaces and market-leading product development. Combined with the added quality and defensibility that our partnership with Yardstick has already brought our own online training products, this will be transformational for the industry. Danatec is looking forward to working alongside Terry Becker, P.Eng, CESCP, CEO of ESPS, to bring new training products, new services and a deeper level of defensibility and rigor to this market.”

ESPS founder Terry Becker, P.Eng., CESCP will join Danatec as Sr. Vice President, Electrical Safety Division. “The opportunity to partner with a safety training leader like Danatec was something that we could not pass up. I have long been a proponent of workplace electrical safety Standards and can now grow the consulting services and products ESPS offers, improve service delivery, and reach a larger audience to share industry best practices and training across industry to an international audience.”

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