Celebrating our 6-year anniversary!

by Rachel Gearon | Mar 14, 2024 | Employment & skills, Our News, RTITB, Training courses, Workplace safety

Celebrating Our 6-year Anniversary!

Six years ago, on 12th March 2018, we proudly completed our very first training courses, a Counterbalance and Reach truck refresher for one person.

Since then, we’ve gone on to help over 700 people achieve another 1000+ certificates in a huge variety of courses, across the regulated training spectrum!

We’ve helped 105 separate businesses and charities ensure they are meeting their legal obligations and we’ve helped 254 private individuals gain new certificates and keep their own certification and qualifications up to date.

But more than that, we hope we’ve made a real difference along the way. By working closely with some charities and agencies, we’ve been able to help people who have found themselves in a tough spot and just need a little help to lift them back up. We believe that everyone has the right to employment, and if you are willing to learn, then we are willing to help you do that. Through our partnerships, we’ve helped lots of people turn their lives around, and we’ve helped provide them with dignity, opportunity and set them on the first step towards a rewarding career.

It’s been an absolute pleasure and a privilege working alongside the people we’ve worked with over the last six years, and we hope that if you’ve attended a course with us, we’ve been able to make your working life just that little bit more enjoyable, or we’ve played our part in giving you a helping hand just when you needed it.

If you’d like to see what some of our customers think, then please click here.

We are really looking forward to the next six years – hopefully they will bring us more opportunities to help even more people achieve their training goals.

Contact us on 01793 975353 or rachel.gearon@keyperformancetraining.co.uk for more information about how we can help or to book your course today.

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Are you confident that your PUWER responsibilities are covered?

by Rachel Gearon | Feb 29, 2024 | Employment & skills, Forklift Friday, Industry news, Our News, RTITB, Training courses

Are you confident that your PUWER responsibilties are covered?

When a material handling equipment incident happens, often it’s operators that are held to account, with poor training taking the blame. However, incidents often occur as a result of poor supervision and management, so to reduce risks, those in these senior roles need to be correctly trained too.

That is why it is a legal requirement under The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) that managers and supervisors of material handling equipment are adequately trained.

If you have these responsibilities, then we have a great solution available that’s quick, convenient and affordable to ensure your legal responsibilities are covered.

The RTITB Managing and Supervising MHE Operations eLearning course is a fantastic course for anyone looking to develop into a managerial or supervisory role within an MHE environment, and for those already in the role looking to improve their understanding of their duties. It can be completed in a day, accessed on mobile devices, and will ensure you and your business are safe and compliant.

Managers and Supervisors will feel confident of their abilities within hours of successfully completing this online training, expertly developed and frequently updated.

Broken down into 6 sections, staff can spread the training over several days, thus assisting warehouse managers and site managers minimise the delays or disruptions to your operation.

At the end of the course content (approximately 3 – 4 hours), there is an end of course assessment, and upon successful completion of the eLearning, candidates will receive a verified qualification.

All of this for under £65 plus VAT per person, with discounts available for over 20 people, thus making this great value for money.

To view the wider range of e-learning courses we have available, please click here.

Contact us on 01793 975353 or rachel.gearon@keyperformancetraining.co.uk for more information about how we can help or to book your course today.

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Supporting International Women’s Day 2024

by Rachel Gearon | Feb 22, 2024 | Employment & skills, Forklift Friday, Industry news, Our News, RTITB, Training courses

International Women’s Day

Friday 8th March 2024

It’s International Women’s Day on Friday 8th March, so we wanted to do something to celebrate this great event.

There is still a huge demand for forklift drivers at the moment, and we’ve previously talked about the advantages to everyone in Logistics and Supply Chains if we can encourage more women into these roles – see our blog

Therefore, to support this effort, we’re hosting our next Forklift Friday on the same day – open to Ladies Only.

This will be an opportunity to speak to a trainer, discuss any requirements they might have, and to try forklift driving – completely free and with no obligation.

Our hope is that once our ladies have discovered the joy of driving a forklift, they will be encouraged to try it as a career.

So with that in mind, any woman who attends will be offered a 20% discount off our normal forklift course prices!*

For more information about Forklift Friday and how this can help you on the next step in your career, please see here

*T&C’s apply – contact us for full details.

Contact us on 01793 975353 or rachel.gearon@keyperformancetraining.co.uk for more information about how we can help or to book your course today.

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Spaces Now Available on our next NVQ!

by Rachel Gearon | Feb 15, 2024 | Employment & skills, Our News, Training courses

Spaces Now Available on our next NVQ!

Following on from the huge success of our first NVQ Level 1 Introduction to Warehousing and Storage, we are delighted to announce that this will be running again soon.

Working in partnership with New College’s Adult Education Centre, this is a wonderful opportunity to attain a national recognised qualification with just 5 days training. And if you’re currently unemployed, you may be able to get this course for free! (See below flyer for eligibility criteria).

For the full qualifying criteria, see poster below:

Introduction to Warehousing and Storage Poster

The course will cover such topics as:

Manual handling
Picking, assembling and packing goods for dispatch within a logistics environment
Health and safety in the workplace
Understanding legislation and guidance within the industry

Successful attendees will gain a Warehousing qualification that will increase your chances of finding employment. It could also progress onto forklift training.

Date: Monday 15th April 2024 to Friday 19th April 2024 (5 days)

Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm

Venue: Key Performance Training, Unit 3 Ash, Kembrey Park, Swindon, SN2 8UN

To enroll or to find out any further information, please contact New College Adult Education Centre below:

T: 01793 511 665 Ed Browne. T: 07854450009 E: AEC@newcollege.ac.uk www.facebook.com/NewCollegeAdultEducationCentre

Contact us on 01793 975353 or rachel.gearon@keyperformancetraining.co.uk for more information about how we can help or to book your course today.

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NVQ Complete

by Rachel Gearon | Feb 8, 2024 | Employment & skills, Our News, Training courses

NVQ Now Completed

Last week was fantastic in centre, as we successfully completed our first NVQ in partnership with New College.

Our NVQ Level 1 Introduction to Warehousing and Storage was a huge success, and we were able to offer a mixture of both practical and theory training, covering topics such as:

Manual handling
Picking, assembling and packing goods for dispatch within a logistics environment
Health and safety in the workplace
Understanding legislation and guidance within the industry

Our delegates all left with skills and experience that will stand them in good stead as they look for work, and a nationally recognised qualification – something that will stand out to an employer.

We will be running more of these courses in the coming months, so if you are interested, or would like to find out any further information, please contact New College Adult Education Centre below:

T: 01793 511 665 Ed Browne. T: 07854450009 E: AEC@newcollege.ac.uk www.facebook.com/NewCollegeAdultEducationCentre

We consider this a real privilege to be offering another course that helps people into work – to find out more about how we do this, visit our website – https://keyperformancetraining.co.uk/about-us/pathway-to-employment/

We’ve helped many people into work, and this is yet another route for people to help make that change into fulfilling, rewarding employment.

Contact us on 01793 975353 or rachel.gearon@keyperformancetraining.co.uk for more information about how we can help or to book your course today.

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Why Logistics and Supply Chain need more women

by Rachel Gearon | Jan 25, 2024 | Employment & skills, Forklift Friday, Industry news, RTITB, Training courses

Why Logistics and Supply Chain need more women

Perception is changing but nationally women are still hugely under-represented within the logistics and supply chain sectors, a situation that some businesses and organisations are working hard to change.

Women only represent around 7% of the logistics sector workforce which employs over 2 million people, and generated £139 billion in 2019, and although female HGV driver numbers are increasing, they still only account for 0.7% of the UK’s qualified HGV drivers.

But what are businesses missing out on? Having a mix of both men and women brings many benefits including alternative thinking, increased productivity, reliability, and retention – things most businesses would be aiming to attain.

So what is needed to cut through the barriers women face?

Some ideas include operating flexible shift patterns, workplace childcare facilities, and offering the same pay rates irrespective of gender for both part-time and full-time workers. If these initiatives are embraced by the industry, it will attract more female talent, and if career development is supported for everyone, then we all benefit.

One such body trying to address this issue is Women in Cold Chain (WiCC), who held their awards in September 2023. They aim to encourage female school leavers, university graduates, and women from other industry sectors to consider a career in the temperature-controlled storage and distribution industry, which traditionally is male dominated.

One attendee at the awards event said: “The speakers imparted their experience that anything’s possible, and so many women talked about their own experiences of working within a male dominated environment that I too had experienced such as service engineers talking to the ‘man’ behind you as if you wouldn’t know what they were talking about, drivers talking over or past you, your opinion or point of view not being heard in meetings, and people generally presuming because you are female you can’t manage transport!

“I do believe that there are a lot of men that just don’t realise the challenges women face, and they need to hear about it firsthand to understand, and for them then to support women in their chosen profession, no matter what that might be.”

So let’s not overlook this huge talent pool when recruiting into our industry, and take advantage of the gains of having a diverse, skilled and happy workforce.

If you’re thinking of a change of career, or just starting out, then see how we can help you, with our range of Forklift Courses

We have supported many women through their forklift training in the past and would love to help you. If you need some flexibility around start and finish times to work around existing commitments, we can help. And if you’re not sure if forklift driving is for you, then come along to one of our free taster sessions and have a go before you decide to book a course.

Together, we can support you on the next step in your journey towards satisfying employment.

Contact us on 01793 975353 or rachel.gearon@keyperformancetraining.co.uk for more information about how we can help or to book your course today.

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