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Course Reminder Texting Service brought to you by C&C!
22nd November 2011
Have you or a member of your team ever forgotten to schedule a booked course into the diary . or forgotten that you/they have been booked onto a course .. or even lost the information that confirms the details . or made a late booking for a team member and wont see them before the course is due to start? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then help is at hand!
C&C Training has just launched its Text Message Course Reminder Service to help you! We will send a text message 2 working days before you/your delegates are due to attend a course with all the critical information to get you to the right place at the right time. Not only will it help to ensure your delegates arrive for their course, but also helps to avoid any cancellation fees that you may be charged due to non-attendance.
Signing up to the service is simple and best of all its totally free!!. All you need to do is tell us at the time of booking that you would like a text message to be sent, with the mobile number/s you want it sent to and leave the rest to us. Mobile numbers are not stored for any other purpose than to remind you or your delegates of the course details and will not be used for marketing purposes.
So why not save yourself time and money and sign up next time you book a course!
Revised Levy Grants for CSkills Site Safety Plus
18th November 2011
We have received notification from Construction Skills that the attendance grants for the Site Safety Plus qualifications (SMSTS & SSSTS courses) are being increased.
Up to the 31st March 2012, Levy Payers to the CITB are able to claim back £52.50 per person per day for each course they attend. A marked increase from the August reduction of £17.50 per person per day.
Now is the time to take advantage of this increase so for more information on our scheduled courses for 2011/2012, please visit our course dates page or call our offices on 01525 851752/01284 705002.
City & Guilds Confined Spaces Now Available!!
18th November 2011
Due to high demand we are now offering City & Guilds 6150 Confined Spaces courses from our training centre in Bury St Edmunds.
The mobile unit is fully equiped with everything needed to test delegates for the practical element of the course making this a superb edition to our expanding range of courses.
Course dates have been scheduled right the way throughout 2012 so for more information visit our course dates webpage, or contact us on 01525 851752/01284 705002 for more details.
C&C Training pledges to help tackle 4000 asbestos death toll
12th September 2011
East Anglia based training provider C&C Training Ltd is playing its part in a Britain-wide drive to help tradesmen protect themselves from asbestos.
C&C Training has accepted the invitation from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the training industry by pledging 100 free training hours to help reach a poignant target of 4000 a number which reflects the approximate number of deaths each year from asbestos-related diseases.
The free asbestos awareness training will be available throughout October and November and is aimed at tradesmen who are most likely to disturb the fibres as they go about their work around 20 a week lose their lives to asbestos-related diseases.
Charlie Cadman from C&C Training which is a member of UKATA United Kingdom Asbestos Training Association says:
We welcomed the opportunity to be involved in such a worthwhile initiative. Though there is little that can be done to help those already suffering the effects of asbestos from exposure years ago, we can help prevent this hidden killer claiming another generation by ensuring there is good quality and accessible training out there. Hopefully the 100 free hours we have pledged will make a real difference to how tradesmen in East Anglia approach jobs putting their health first.
A little goes a long way when it comes to Safety Behaviour
12th May 2011
Promoting safe behaviour at work is a critical part of the management of health and safety, because behaviour turns systems and procedures into reality. On their own, good systems do not ensure successful health and safety management, as the level of success is determined by how organisations 'live' their systems.
This year at the Safety & Health Expo our behavioural expert, Joe Mills, will be demonstrating how simple changes can make a massive difference to how people behave.
Behaviour modification programmes that run in the UK tend to promote safe working behaviour among frontline staff. However to get long term sustainable change, commitment to changing behaviours is required throughout an organisation, hence the foundations of improving safety behaviour are built through those in positions of management and leadership.
C&C's safety behaviour model specifically addresses this by including business leaders, managers and supervisors but also allows a flexible approach to draw in the entire organisation to ensure successful change.
Visit us at Stand N50 to start learning how little changes can go a long way to improving safety behaviour.
Marking four years of growth - the new Bury Development Centre
12th May 2011
As many of our valued and long standing clients are based in Suffolk, we have always had plans to open a development centre in the area. In February of this year, we had the opportunity to secure a fantastic training venue in Bury St Edmunds along with offices to house our expanding customer services team.
A wide range of public courses will be run from the Centre along with offering another option for our customers to run closed courses. Visit the Course Dates page to view dates for Nebosh, IOSH, C SKills UKATA and Driver CPC courses that are scheduled to run there.
To thank our customers for their continued support and custom we will be taking full advantage of the wonderful gardens on the 5th August by holding a summer lunchtime BBQ at the Centre .... invitations and further details of this event will be provided nearer the time but in the meantime please pencil it in your diary!
JAUPT Approved Driver CPC Training Available from C&C Training
9th August 2010
C&C Training is continuously looking to improve its service & course ranges for it's new and existing clients and as such we are pleased to announce that we are now accredited to deliver Driver CPC.
In September 2009, it became a legal requirement for all professional drivers of Buses, Coaches (D, D1, DE & D1E Licence Holders) and Lorries (C, C1, CE & C1E Licence Holders) to obtain and hold Periodic Training. It was introduced across the EU to maintain high driving standards and improve road safety.
How does it affect me?
All drivers need to complete a minimum of 35 hours of period training every 5 years. The training will require attendance at courses but will not require drivers to take or pass further examinations.
Any drivers of vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, and mini buses with nine seats or more must obtain Driver CPC.
How can C&C Training help?
We are approved to deliver the following 10 x 3.5 hour modules, which have been chosen by the transport industry as being the most important and beneficial to the running of businesses and the safety and knowledge of drivers:
1A Drivers Hours & Analogue Tacographs
1B Digital Tacographs
2A Vehicle & Load Handling Systems
2B Safe Vehicle Loading
3A Principals of Safe, Economic & Defensive Driving
3B Practical Safe, Economic & Defensive Driving
4A Health & Safety in Transport
4B Personal Wellbeing, Health & Safety in Transport
5A Company Procedures & Company Care
5B Secure Transport Operations
The modules can be delivered in five individual 7 hour (1 day) modules or as a single 35 hour course (5 days).
They can also be split to match individual company requirements providing 45 possible course combinations.
For further information on how we can help you achieve your driver CPC, please contact us now on 01525 851752.
The New Right to Request Time to Train
10th March 2010
From the 6th April 2010 The Department for Business Innovation & Skills is introducing a new right for employees to request time to train. The right applies to employees who have worked for a business for 26 weeks or more and where that business employs more than 250 people.
Under the new right employees will be able to make requests for time to undertake any training they think will help them with their day to day work. The training can be accredited leading to the award of a recognised qualification, or unaccredited which would help then develop specific skills relevant to their job.
On receiving a valid request, employers will have to respond to the employee within 28 days, either to accept the request and inform the employee of the decision in writing or meet with the employee to discuss the request and 14 days from that meeting inform them of the decision in writing.
The employer can accept the request but with changes, for example, providing an in-house training course as opposed to the employee atttending a public course, or to suggest training that the business feels would be better suited to the employee.
The right has been designed to work using similar processes that are used for considering flexible working requests. For the majority of businesses incorporating the request process this should be fairly straight forward. Where businesses already regularly review and invest in training for their staff then the requirements of the new right will probably mean little change.
From the 6th April 2011 the right is being expanded to cover all businesses so if you want advice on any aspect of training C&C Training will be able to help.
For further information on the new right, visit www.bis.gov.uk or www.businesslink.gov.uk
