sub standard chainsaw course

[Peasgood]

I attended my first module of CPC course today.Same thing exactly,some non attendees getting modular credit for not attending because they have course credit in another discipline.I dont understand it at all

 

If anyone can get through a CPC course without attending I am all in favour of it. The whole thing is the biggest waste of anybody's time I can think of.

I just can not figure how anybody anywhere can think that there is any point to it whatsoever.

How I wrote that lot without swearing is another of life's mysteries.

[stihlmadasever]

If anyone can get through a CPC course without attending I am all in favour of it. The whole thing is the biggest waste of anybody's time I can think of.

I just can not figure how anybody anywhere can think that there is any point to it whatsoever.

How I wrote that lot without swearing is another of life's mysteries.

 

I totally agree,today was manual handling and customer care.Complete waste of a day,tomorrow is working at height-which is an absolute joke as im a climber and have done this on several courses,and first aid,again a waste of time as im an advanced first aider.Seems to me the CPC is just a way of conning companies ( except bus/coach and lorry of coarse) out of money.I thought it was to promote safer driving-from the comfort of a classroom of course!

[Stuart Phillips]

Hi Hooch

Give me a ring at Lantra (02476 696996 ex282) or email [email protected] as I would like to follow this up for you. This is the 2nd incidence like this I have heard about recently and I would like to deal with it. Lantra has spent a fair chunk of time and money in the past 12 months to refresh and re-standardise its verifiers, and is currently running updating sessions to cascade the standards to instructors, so this type of thing is just undermining that effort.

As for training to pass the test, well I am annoyed at that happening too. There are too many folk who believe that having the 'ticket' is the important thing as far as the HSE is concerned. It comes as a surprise to them that the legal requirement is that they are 'adequately trained'. And again, its the adequacy of the training that is being undermined by poor quality instructors.

If anyone else wants to feedback details of these types of issues to me, please feel free.

[Stuart Phillips]

Hi Hooch and All

I have flagged this incident, and the other comments regarding poor quality training, with Lantra's Quality and Compliance Manager Sandie Absalom. She immediately asked for the details, so that it could be addressed. So, if you have a problem with a Lantra training course you can contact me or call Sandie on 02476 696996 ex258.

[Kveldssanger]

^ Very professional! Good stuff.

[difflock]

I would add that Eoin McCambridge of "Ballynaglough Training" as was, now called sommat else? has been very professional and through in any Lantra accredited training he has provided for us.

Marcus