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Volvo ce is first uK supplier to be
accredited for skills training
Volvo Construction
Equipment Division, Volvo
Group UK Ltd has been
awarded full accreditation as
a skills training provider by
The National Skills Academy
for its Paver Applications
training course.
As part of a European initiative by
Volvo CE to launch a Road Institute
training programme focussing on
providing contractors and industry
bodies with quality training for their
paving personnel, the Volvo dealership
in the UK has gone one step further
and achieved accreditation with The
National Skills Academy for Materials,
Production and Supply.
The training courses have been
designed to improve the knowledge and
understanding of paving techniques
by means of classroom based theory
and practical, hands on experience
operating Volvo road equipment. The
two and a half day course takes place
at Volvo’s purpose built customer
support centre at Immingham and can
be tailored to suit individual contractors’
needs and directed to all levels of
existing knowledge from novices to
experienced road crews, management
and technical personnel.
Volvo CE has held six such courses
since the start of the year with
extremely positive feedback coming
from both course students and the
companies sponsoring them – such as
Lafarge, Eurovia and Balfour Beatty to
name a few.
Graham Crawshaw, from the MPQC
(Mineral Products Qualification Council)
and training auditor for Proskills is
delighted how the structure of Volvo’s
training package has taken shape. “I’m
very happy with the course structure,
the balance of the theory and practical
elements of the course and the way
the information is being given,” he said.
Construction Equipment Division is now
one of thirty training organisations that
has achieved our high standard and
the first industry supplier to achieve
accreditation which demonstrates that
Volvo CE is leading the way.”
Training courses are held based
on demand with delegates charged
a modest fee for the course and
certificate registration. For more
information on forthcoming courses
contact either Jill Groom on
01223 2519252 or Michael Lloyd
on 07900 678492.
April 2011
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Chief Instructor Peter Fleming (left) gives practical hands on training to the latest batch of
course delegates
“There is a good deal of information and
knowledge that needs to be imparted
to ensure everything is covered and in
particular, all aspects relating to safety,
and Volvo’s instructors are doing this
very well.”
Presenting Volvo Construction
Equipment with its accreditation award
at Immingham on the sixteenth March
2011, Proskills Network Development
Manager Richard Bloxam said;
“Accreditation marks out those training
providers that offer specialist and high
quality training to our sector. Volvo
Richard Bloxam from Proskills (centre) presents
David Munns, Director for Road Equipment, Volvo Construction Equipment Division
with the accreditation award, with Chief Instructor Peter Fleming
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