Woodland Grange opens up further overseas markets
11 January 2008
Health and safety training provider Woodland Grange has pioneered a new British health and safety qualification in Thailand
Health and safety training provider Woodland Grange has pioneered a new British health and safety qualification in Thailand -- and is in line to present the course in seven more international markets, including Brazil and China. The news comes at the end of a year which will see record levels of overseas business for the Leamington Spa based organisation.
CMTC, its international and in-company division, has developed the Thai initiative as a pilot for a prominent international engineering company. During 2008 it will be extending the training to the company’s activities in Russia, France, Romania, Brazil and China.
Among other new overseas business secured during 2007, CMTC clinched a contract to train executives from Lloyd’s Register in the United States – particularly significant because the client opted for a British trainer providing a qualification developed in Britain, rather than the on-territory equivalents in North America.
These two latest contracts are further evidence of CMTC pioneering British standards of health and safety abroad. Its work is based on international versions of two established British qualifications, the NEBOSH International General Certificate and the IOSH Managing Safely international version. NEBOSH and IOSH are the UK’s two most important heath and safety educational organisations, and Woodland Grange was instrumental in helping them to develop these international versions.
CMTC has been particularly prominent in providing training in markets which have under-developed health and safety cultures. Two years ago it established a training base in Brunei for Eastern Pacific markets, from which it is providing training for delegates from a range of different countries. Courses now normally see pass rates of more than 80 per cent.
CMTC has also been active in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In Kazakhstan, it regularly delivers training for the country’s booming petrochemical and gas industries, and it has also presented training in Poland and Russia. It was the first UK trainer to undertake a complete interpretation of all course material into a foreign language, when it developed a Russian translation of the NEBOSH International General Certificate.
Much of this international training sees CMTC adapting the core course material to reflect the individual cultures of the client companies and the countries in which they operate -- not only in terms of tailoring course material and content, but in terms of devising programmes that reflect local languages and social customs.
“In several markets we feel that we are not only training people to help their specific companies, but actually helping to expose industry in general to a revolution in health and safety practice,” commented CMTC manager Darby Allan, who also presents some of the courses: “It is often a major challenge to develop training that will actually work, but that makes it all the more rewarding.”
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