Training

Training is an investment
The efficiencies promised by your investment in woodworking machinery are more effectively delivered by a fully trained operator. Once the important factor of safety is also taken into account it becomes easy to see that training the operator is part of the investment.

Routes to Training
There are ways to training in the working with wood sector. We concentrate here on the manufacturing area – training on machinery.

1. Leading machinery suppliers offer high quality training courses. This is usually the easiest way to get the right training on a specific machine.
2. Some private training providers specialise in the woodworking industries. Training organisations exhibiting at our trade show include-

   Didac
   South West
   www.didac.co.uk

   Safety-Training
   Cambridge
   www.safety-training.co.uk

   North Lancs Training Group
   North West
   www.nltg.co.uk

3. Generic training is often delivered locally by Colleges.

Training Developments
UK Woodchain is leading sector training initiatives and has recently obtained government funding to develop a new structure to training in the UK.

www.ukwoodchain.ltd.uk