Anglia Rural Training gains Landskills East Award

You may  be interested to know that  ART  (our  umbrella  organisation) received the  award for  “Most Progressive Delivery Partner” at  a Funding awards ceremony held at "Jimmys Farm"  by Landskills East last  night.  This  in part reflected  the support of  all of our customers   who  have supported the  Landskills East  funding initiative for  skills  development in the  East of England by attending  courses  provided by  CAT Ltd.  

Jo  Bruce who  has  managed the project on behalf of ART said:

This project has   been all about  teamwork right from the beginning - Landskills East, Norfolk County Council  and their delivery partners - Us - The  East Anglian Training providers who make up Anglia Rural Training and then our  customers who have supported the  project and made it the  success it is.

At CATraining  Ltd. we are also quite pleased in our own right as we  designed and developed the database used to enable  ART to  manage the project.   The  database  has  so far managed over  2000 courses from the 10 members of Anglia Rural Training  from initial grant application through to the management of the  repayments  from Landskills  East all at varying skill levels, grant rates (and VAT  changes).

In the next  few  weeks we will  be  launching our  CATraining Ltd.  Autumn  programme, much benefiting from Landskills  East funding.

New Services for 2011/12

More technology I am afraid. September is a time we spend planning for the Winter season. After an exceptionally busy year we have revisited how we can better action training requests and supply information to our customers. Over the next few months we will be contacting all our customers with records of services provided over the last two years. We will also be targeting relevant training courses to our customers so they can plan and budget training over the coming months. By October we hope to launch online access for our regular customers to records and upcomimg course information. Eventually this will be available to all our customers. So in summary this year will be about giving you the information you need and responding to training request efficently so you, our customer, can keep track of your training and skills development in a simple and efficient way. Just to remind you: Landskills funding still available, The funding rates change with the moon cycles, have an idea? need advice on funding? Talk to us now - we will navigate the minefield for you!

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.