News

Exhibitions list
Lantra Awards are attending the following exhibitions during 2010

Make The Promise
Lantra Awards supports the Health and Safety Executive’s campaign

FISS/CSCS Card price increase

Customer success stories
We would like to hear from anyone who has had a recent success story.

HSE Safety Announcements
Recent announcements which are significant to our industry.

XL Vets
Fantastic response to recent training event.

AgriSkills Strategy
Equipping farmers and growers with the right skills for the 21st century

Dry stone walling skills
To address the skills shortage in specialist sectors, Lantra Awards has introduced a new suite of Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) qualifications in Dry Stone Walling.

QCF approval
Lantra Awards has been re-approved by the Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator.

Safety and Health Awareness Days
Demonstrations covering the everyday hazards that face those who farm.

Quality & Standards team
Insight into the Lantra Awards Quality & Standards team.

Reminder - transfer places for training courses
Provided that the material is still technically up-to-date, training places can be transferred to a subsequent identical event with the same code free of charge

High Speed Traffic Management (12AB) and Mobile Lane Closures (12C) training revisions
The Lantra Awards High Speed Traffic Management (sector scheme 12AB) suite of training has now been updated to align it with the new Chapter 8, published by the Department for Transport in 2009

Instructor Monitoring: Training Audit Visits
The active status of your skills is at risk if you do not inform us of either your course dates or make contact with the team to say otherwise.

Coursefinder and Training Providers Club
Coursefinder and the Training Providers Club are initiatives which have been produced by Lantra Awards’ parent company Lantra and likely to be of interest to you:

Lantra Awards Lift Truck Instructors
Responsibility to ensure that the lift truck operator certificates/cards they hold are up to date and renewed

Lantra Awards Site Specific Risk Assessment Form
The Lantra Awards Site Specific Risk Assessment Form is under review and a new version of the form is being trialled.

Certificate and ID card turnaround times

Max number of learners per course
As part of Health and Safety recommendations it is essential that Lantra Awards set maximum learner : instructor : equipment ratios on courses which are developed.

Chris Cooper-Abbs