21st C Training

The changing face of training.

On the day that Steve Jobs steps down from Apple we  have  some  changes in how we   have improved our  service to  you, our  customers.  The  connection is  Apple.

Today we  ran our  first course  fully provisioned through an ipad and iphone.  The  presentation and smartboard was  run through an ipad, the trainee photographs were  captured on an iphone.  When the weather went wrong for  our outside  based course we even used an app on the ipad to track the satellite image of the rain to plan our  days  training.  By this  evening Lantra Awards  had our  paperwork scanned  and processed on the ipad emailed ready for processing tomorrow and our training partner  Mid Kent training had  both their paperwork and their  invoice (!).  Job done

Lantra Awards are turning around our   online  claims in record time - Thank you  Steve  Jobs!  (Record so  far is  three  days, how  can we  beat that  Sharon @  Lantra  Awards!)

Over the  coming weeks we  plan to  further  refine this  system for all our  courses with  CAT  attendance  certificates despatched the  same  day as  training completes and online  traceability  for assurance  scheme auditing.

CATraining, not just another  training provider.

Autumn Course Planning underway

While everyone is  busy with their outside work at the  moment we are starting the autumn  training schedule.

First few  courses are  now online with  Health and Safety Awareness  dates and information HERE

NRoSO updates  dates and information HERE

More will  be added in the  coming weeks in readiness for our  autumn program.

New HSE Figures for 2009/2010 released

From HSE, Headline  message here:

• In 2009/10 the rate of fatal injuries was 8.0 per 100 000 workers. This is slightly below the average figure for the previous 5 years of 8.2 per 100 000 workers. However, agriculture still has the highest rate of fatal injuries of all industries.
• In 2009/10p Agriculture accounted for 0.9% of the employees in Britain, 1.4% of reported injuries to employees (15% fatalities, 2% major and 1% of over three day injuries). The Labour Force Survey (LFS)¹ estimates that around 3% of all non-fatal injuries occurred in Agriculture in 2008/09 (three-year average).
• Agriculture has one of the highest rates of reported major injury of the industry sectors. In 2009/10p, there were 242.1 major injuries per 100 000 employees in agriculture compared to 203.1 in 2008/09. 

Read the  summary on HSE  Website  HERE

The Good News - Forklift Deaths Fall

In a press release today the  Fork Lift Truck Association (Full report  HERE) announced that there had  been a dramatic fall in fatalities involving Forklift trucks.  As providers of Lantra Awards accredited  training in Industrial Forklifts and Telehandlers it is  excellent to  be able to provide a  good news story and show  how training does have  real tangible benefits.

Find out  more  about  our  Forklift Training Courses HERE 

Microsoft 365 Launch Date Announced

John Roskill, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of Worldwide Partner Group announced through a tweet yesterday the public release date of Office 365. In the tweet he says:

June 28th is the date for General Availability of Office 365! 

As a  Microsoft Partner we  have  been trialling this  product and the on-line  opportunities it allows for  e-mail and business co-operation and management. We have  been waiting for this announcement in order to publicise the  benefits  to our  customers.More on this as  June 28th approaches.

Meet us at the Shows this Summer

We are  about   at the  shows!

Suffolk Show  1st June:We'll be around, drop us a line if you want to  meet up!

Attending a Landskills Health and Safety Event?  -we will see you at Shuttleworth, Milton College, Easton Farm Park..

Going to  Cereals we  are about on day 2- in the afternoon we will  be on the Landskills  East stand C452.

CATraining Ltd Forklift and Telehandler Courses Updated

With  new presentation materials  and a new interactive  structure our updated  courses in Forklift and Telehandler  operation meet today's  demands. Based on Lantra  Awards  integrated training and assessment courses we  can now provide a unique training experience using the latest technology  for  learning and skill development.

Click HERE for more information