Dear all We are part of a fairly ‘unique’ part of industry and there are a number of our staff are hoping to bring a large part of training in house. They would like to take on the training for fork lift trucks, hoists, workshop equipment and a few others courses. They would like to run the basic courses and refresher courses and then have add a section that covers working with those piecies of equipment in our industry. They are long standing members of staff who have undergone the training previously and kept up to date with their refresher courses etc. They are intelligent, trained and competent and I do not want to stand in their way. I would love to chat to a couple of safety staff who have bought this type of training in house and how they went about and any courses/advise they can give me to ensure we protect the company, as well as ensure we have given the staff who want to do this the necessary tools and training to undertake this project. Sue

I would suggest either an RTITB or ITTSAR course for the forklift training, there are plenty of suppliers of courses that provide these instructors facilities. I would also suggest a good Train the Trainer course and perhaps Iosh Managing safely These are just general courses that would give the trainers a good background to train.

Hi, Like some of the others have said, you'll need to establish trainers with a blend of competency on the subject matter (e.g. ITTSAR or RTITB for FLT's), but also on delivery of the training. We had a guy come to teach us about DSEAR recently, knew all there was to know about explosions, but was a total stinker at being a trainer..... Arguably the delivery is the most important bit. I love in-house training personally, because you can tailor it to your exact requirements and work environment. We use an on site sub-contractor for all our training so happy to chat further and put you in touch with our guy if that helps. Ta Stu