The winners were chosen from the shortlisted finalists at a prestigious dinner held in Liverpool’s Anfield football stadium.  The event was attended by over 100 guests from the business world of Mersey Maritime.

OPS are proud to be named the winner of the SME Business of the Year award 2018, the culmination of a successful year for the company in terms of completed offshore projects and a record number of training courses delivered to the renewable energy sector.

The Directors of OPS would like to thank the judges of Mersey Maritime and all those who contributed to this tremendous achievement.

OPS Training were celebrating Christmas early after being awarded 2 new accreditations at its state of the art training centre in Liverpool.

After 3 months of hard work, all was rewarded when they successfully achieved accreditations for both GWO (Global wind Organisation) and IRATA (industrial rope access trade association) accreditations.

This now means that as well as their current iCATS industrial painting courses they can also deliver the full GWO Basic safety training and  IRATA Rope Access training in their new state of the art training centre.