Posted By Peter J Harvey Why not give CITB (Construction Industry Training Board) a call on 01485 577577, they will advise you.

Posted By Graham Sargeant I agree with you Bob, I don't think there are enough hire companies who deal with health and safety on the same level as profit and marketing, I know for a fact that some large multi-national shops have a flagship depot which the hire trade body 'the hire alliance' have checked out and given a clean bill of health, but away from the main office the other depots don't even stock goggles and ear protectors to offer to the customer, and I would challenge the competence to give demonstrations some of the staff have!!! The hire industry has come a long way from the dark ages it was in when I started, but not far enough yet. By the way the 'hire alliance' say to train for scaffold errection you need to be competent with reference to product knowledge and hold some kind of qualification which proves you can teach, examples they gave being a teachers training certificate course...any comments appreciated Graham