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SSL and Lutra Associates team up to provide simulators and training to UK market

The simultaneous announcement in Canada and the UK of a new partnership to provide survival simulators, trainers and training for the specialised helicopter, aircraft, small boat offshore, and vehicle markets in the UK has brought a new team to the UK market.

Survival Systems Limited (SSL) of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, has teamed with Lutra Associates Ltd of Datchworth, Hertfordshire, UK, to approach the UK market.
 
SSL has built a reputation for effective trainers and performance-based procedures based on its commitment to the whole ethos of safety, with emphasis on factors effecting egress. Lutra Associates Ltd provides advice, business development, consultancy and delivery in the defence, security, and policing fields. 

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Speaking in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Paul Douglas, president and CEO of Survival Systems Limited, said: “We chose Lutra as our partner because their approach increases our value to the end user by providing the right expertise at the right time and because they have the right approach to customers in the UK market.  By being our eyes, ears, and feet on the ground, backed by technical expertise, Lutra increases our contact with the customers and end users and maintains our commitment to quality by supporting reduces SSL’s our marketing and bidding; delivery; and through life capability management.”

In Hertfordshire, Tim Otter, chief executive of Lutra Associates Ltd, said: “Survival Systems Limited is undoubtedly the world leader in the provision of egress trainers.  Their commitment to the whole life and holistic problem from the design of the platform through effective training, using specialist instructors, to after incident de briefs is an ethos that has the respect of the market and the gratitude of many survivors.  Their willingness to go the extra mile such as the provision of double redundancy and additional precision in their METS lifting devices is very impressive. It demonstrates a quality, safety, and survivability ethos that permeates everything they do. We are proud to have been chosen by them.”

 

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