Hi,

I’ve been asked to find a suitable Train the Trainer course in H&S that would allow me to deliver relevant H&S training sessions to our staff and drivers.

I’m aware that IOSH offers a course, but from what I can see, it appears to be linked to the IOSH Level 3 qualification, so it may not be the right fit for this purpose.

If anyone could point me in the right direction or recommend a suitable course, I’d really appreciate it.

Kind Regards

Ash

Has someone decreed we need degree level employees to deliver toolbox talks?

As long as you speak clearly and authoritavely without mumbling, know intimately or have suitable researched the subject topic and are confident with presentation aids why do you need to line someone elses pocket?

Hi Ash

I suppose there are two questions here:

1. What is the nature of the training?

2. Has someone in your organisation added some so called Blue Tape and decreed that anyone doing training needs a qualification?

One of my first jobs after leaving university was in an engineering factory where amongst other things I operated bench grinders, capstan lathes and other machines.

My foreman taught me how to use each machine and PART of the training was what safety precautions to take.

I very much doubt that this foreman had any formal "training" qualification but he passed on appropriate guidance.

I agree with Roundtuit entirely that the trainer needs to know their subject, however good any materials they might have been given may be.

For the simple reason that some course developer has virtually no chance of anticipating the range of questions that might come up. Somebody who has a wealth of experience of a subject should have come across MOST of the questions before and hence can speak from their EXPERIENCE about solutions that are likely to work. There will always be the potential for some oddball question that is entirely valid and the trainer might have to say "Don't have an answer to THAT question" but an audience should be able to reasonably expect that this is NOT a default answer to many of the QQ that might be thrown at the trainer.