Events and Exhibitions
SARACCA : NEW NATIONAL SAFE HANDLING TRAINING
Held at the end of May 2021 through a virtual engagement , all regions participated in the South African Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Contractors Association branch meeting .
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Members were presented various objectives and the marketing strategy going forward .
Grant Laidlaw presented to members the new safe handling of refrigerants national programme .
The virtual engagement was run by executive director , Barney
Richardson . All participating members were greeted and welcomed by president Hennie Basson , who gave opportunity to the regional chairmen to welcome all of the participating members from their area . These were Tony Moodley – KZN ,
Jacques Claassen – WC , and David Botha – Gauteng .
Members were presented the updated goals and marketing strategy by the appointed agency Hot Mustard , who showed various statistics and proposed path for the association ’ s marketing . The main objective being to grow membership numbers by securing the body ’ s recognition in all relevant sectors through the dissemination of content through and a wider range of platforms - including partnering with other relevant publishers in other engineering and electrical sectors , the better use of social media platforms and the associations website where more engagement has been implemented for member leads coming through this channel .
Grant Laidlaw , then presented the new safe handling of refrigerants training that will be universally rolled out to
QUOTE OF THE MONTH “ To the optimist , the glass is half full . To the pessimist , the glass is half empty . To the engineer , the glass is twice as big as it needs to be .” – John Doe
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