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#1 Posted : 12 June 2007 15:42:00(UTC)
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Posted By Bobby Brown
I'm taking redundancy this Summer and I'm considering being a self employed safety trainer running IOSH safety courses. The initial set-up costs look high and I'm wondering if anyone has done this before and whether there is a need for this one man band type of business offering flexibility and tailor-made training when required.

I'm CMIOSH based in the NW of England with over ten years experience in utilities and local authorities. Experienced in training on many in-house and CIEH courses.

Thanks in advance for your comments.
Bobby Brown
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#2 Posted : 26 June 2007 11:34:00(UTC)
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Posted By Chris Ivan
hi bobby
lots of big consultancies use experienced associates - look in SHP
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#3 Posted : 26 June 2007 13:01:00(UTC)
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Posted By Richie
Just out of interest...

If a person was to act as an associate training provider, would that person need to buy the course or deliver the course owned by the 'mother' training provider?

If it is the latter, I might be tempted to go down that route myself....

Richie
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#4 Posted : 26 June 2007 16:14:00(UTC)
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Posted By Chris Ivan
often the mother provides!
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#5 Posted : 26 June 2007 16:43:00(UTC)
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Posted By John Watson
With Associate work you will be provided by the lead client (ie your "employer")with all the necessary materials and resources to deliver the course, but are likely to be expected to provide your own laptop and projector. You are very likely to be expected to deliver as an "employee" of that company, for example our associates have their own business cards for our company, to ensure that the client does not get confused. Remember at ALL times, no mater how much the client may love you, it is NOT your client. Trying to get them as your client is the road to hell, and will cost you a lot of work in the long run.

Hope this helps.

regards

John
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#6 Posted : 26 June 2007 22:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By Chris Ivan
any independent trainers interested in forming a training alliance, and sharing development costs etc on IOSH fees etc - perhaps pool resources for marketing and admin and a central hub etc- it means that you would be able to focus on delivering good training rather than cash collecting and marketing and all that other yucky stuff - together we are strong!

let me know!

regards
Chris

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#7 Posted : 01 July 2007 08:50:00(UTC)
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Posted By Bobby Brown
To all who replied I have sent you personal email, thank you. Maybe we can help each other more on this? I am still intending to provide safety training for a group of organisations that I have experience of working with. One point that I will make is that the IOSH licensing system does seem biased in pricing towards the interests of large companies rather than individual consultants. Other options available include CIEH and RIPH organisations.
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#8 Posted : 01 July 2007 14:48:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ian G Hutchings
Hi Bobby

How confident are you that there is a good market for this type of training. There does seem to be an awful lot of training companies. What sort of market research have you done?

Happy to chat offline if you want to email me?


Cheers

Ian
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#9 Posted : 09 July 2007 16:01:00(UTC)
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Posted By pat diggin
contact me regarding this at abcassociates-ni.com

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