Training Just Got Cheaper with CA Training Ltd! 3 Ways to Save on Training Costs This Year

Saver No. 1
At a time when costs seem to have spiralled for just about everything we are pleased to say we are bucking the trend for our members.

For the last year we have maintained a 5% discount on all training costs. As from this year all members who renew their membership will benefit from a 10% discount on training costs (excludes external certification and assessment cost.). We also intend to contain as far as possible course costs with the only increase being a reflection of instructors charges to CA Training Ltd. Our overall administration costs are not increasing this year.

Saver No. 2
We have been able to secure funding for Women in Agriculture on selected Courses. If you feel you or your staff may qualify please get in touch so we can confirm your eligibility

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Saver No.3
Lantra Awards has announced today that certification on registration costs for a number of their courses have now been reduced. Most important is the range of Forklift Courses.
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So this means that if you are a CATraining Ltd. member you will save 10% on training costs and up to 30% on last years registration costs for a Forklift or Telescopic Handler Course. If your trainee is a woman you may be able to save even more!
We hope that this is good news for those of you who are thinking about your autumn training and we will be pleased to discuss your individual requirements for the coming months

Accidents at Work - new statistics

We were running a forklift training course the other day and the accident figures used came up for discussion. The casualty/mortality figures in the skills guide issued on these courses are for guidance only.

A quick phone call to my HSE contact and I was pointed at a recent HSE press release.

First the Figures for 2007:

HSE statistics highlight transport as the second biggest cause of work-related deaths, after falls from height. Every year, around 70 people are killed in transport-related accidents in the workplace and around eight of those involve Fork Lift Trucks. Of 2,249 reported accidents in one year, involving Fork Lift Trucks, 626 caused major injuries, including amputations and broken bones.

Next the reason for the press release, which involved a £1,750 fine for the employee - warning for everyone to drive carefully.

HSE’s investigating inspector Anne Robinson said:

“It is important that individuals are aware that they, as well as their employer, have duties under the law to take reasonable care of the health and safety of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work. Mr Wyatt’s employer had employed an in-house forklift truck trainer and Mr Wyatt had received regular refresher training and re-testing.

“In this case his forward visibility was significantly obscured by the load and he could not see his colleague. The injuries inflicted could have been significantly worse, or even fatal. Operators of lift trucks must ensure that they operate them in accordance with the training they have been given to prevent such tragedies.”

So a quick reminder at this busy time of year to just take a few seconds to think.

What Summer Means

Sounds like a childrens "What I did in the holidays" title doesn't it? But actually it is quite important.

While many of our customers in land based industries are at their busiest time of year we at CA Training are as well but in a different way.

August is a time when we must plan for winter training programmes. We have to anticipate 6 months in advance what will be new requirements, what new courses are being offered to us and who will benefit from them. Part of the problem is that our customers are busy with their core business and don't want us interupting that. The weather is enough of a nuisance without us compounding the problem!

So what will be new and what will we repeat this season? The standards are still there: Emergency Aid, Fire Risk Assessments, Brushcutters, Abrasive Wheels, Forklifts, Tesecopic Handlers, Pesticide updates, PA1,2, 4, 6, 11 et al preparation, H&S at various levels, Food Hygiene and the rest.

New for this coming year? Well we have access to a mobile IT training suite - one of the topics we are including electronic time management, e-mails how to be in control. Traditional courses have had an overhaul with new materials for Forklift and Manual Handling.

We are also asking the question: What do YOU want from training? Competence or Certificate, they are not always the same thing and we would like to hear your views.

Students Receive Health and Safety Awards

We have been asked to attend the presentation of Health and Safety Awards at the Royal Show on 3rd July. This is because of our involvement with Lantra Awards in this qualification and because we provided the instruction to the Level 2 Award winner Scott Melton, providing the training course through TTA (West). For the full press release from Lantra Awards click on the link here:

Students Receive Health and Safety Awards

OK, A Good Week.

Why? Well sometimes it just goes right. Most importantly the right people on the right courses. It does make a difference, people feel happier and the course just works. I also visited a couple of businesses on safety issues. One a long term customer - we are pretty much there and they are seeing the benefits of "getting it right". The other business is a new one but they are committed to investing in all aspects of the business and can see that H & S is not just yellow coats and paperwork but making it all work at a practical level.

Back to training then. This week has been Animals in Transit, Manual Handling, Mig Welding, Forklift Refreshers and Brushcutters. Quite a variety then. Our manual handling presentation was really good fun we had a great group of Polish guys who could speak Russian and Polish but not English . Luckily our Lithuanian translator Mark could speak English and Russian so problem solved. Anyway a great day, everyone enjoyed the day and training was a success. Thanks guys!

June Update

What have we been doing since April? Well actually you are probably more interested in what is coming up. More on that later. Courses run over the last month have included Emergency Aid in various forms. ATV training, Brushcutters/Strimmers, Pesticides in various guises. Quite busy on the Forklift/Telescopic handler front especially with the pre-summer season renewals. This brings me on to an important point. The changes in design of some of the newer machines make the existing training programme appear at odds with the way some machines are designed to operate. As a result we are in discussion with Lantra Awards the accrediting body for the courses we run to see if we can reflect these changes, especially in the renewal/refresher courses which are designed for advanced users to some extent. In the mean time we will acknowledge these changes within our existing courses.

Lsst week I also attended a Focus Group at Lantra Awards to hear about developments within their business. As soon as these developments are confirmed we will link into the news as the plans will be quite useful for both you and us.

Cereals 2008 ran last week and seemed quite busy: Farmers Weekly have a useful news feed here for anyone who couldn't make it.

Over the next few weeks we are running our usual pre-Summer Telescopic/Combine/Tractor courses as well as PA1, PA6 courses. We are in the process of arranging a PA11 seed treatment course which still has a few places left on it.

We hope to be able to present a package to allow our customers to take the newLevel 3 Certificate in Controlling Risks to Health and Safety in Agriculture/ Horticulture as a part on-line, part tutored course. This should be available in the autumn.

It's Lantra Awards!

I have been reminded in my last post that I made reference to Lantra, not Lantra Awards. What is the difference you may ask?

Lantra is the Sector Skills Council for the environmental and land-based sector.

Lantra Awards specialises in qualifications and training for people in the land-based sector through a network of local approved centres and training providers, and has more than 30 years experience in this field.

It is Lantra Awards who we belong to as a training provider. Generally they will provide the accreditation for Forklift, Tractor, Brushcutter and other Skills based courses for our trainees.

From a training point of view we have been busy and will be more so for the remainder of May with Forklift training prior to the summer season. Other courses and course enquiries have been Abrasive Wheels, Emergency Aid, More Livestock Transport, Working at Heights, Brushcutter and Strimmers, Tractor Driving and HACCP.

Looking to the future we are preparing courses in Mig Welding, More Emergency Aid, Grainstore Monitoring, Forklift and Telescopic Handling and with a reminder that the summer is almost on us Combine operation and settings!

Hope to be back with a few pictures next time.