The recession has boosted attendance on the 2 day City & Guilds Manual Handling Train the Trainer course. More companies are realising the economic benefits of training up their own manual handling instructors.
To give an idea of payback, the cost of bringing a manual handling trainer onto your site for a day will vary from £400 to £1000 + VAT. The cost of the City & Guilds Manual Handling Train the Trainer qualification on an open course is £595 + VAT (for the first person and £545 + VAT for any additional attendees from the same company).
If you have a group of trainers to be trained, the in-house courses work out even more cost effective per person. For the in-house events, the course cost is £1950 + VAT in addition to City & Guilds registration and certification fees of £80 per person. Thus for a group of 12, the cost per person is just £242 + VAT.
Therefore, you are looking at a payback of one day per trainee! Furthermore, by achieving a nationally recognised qualification, you are demonstrating your commitment to health and safety and enabling your company to run the training when it suits for as long as is convenient – not always the case with an external trainer who is booked months in advance and charges by the day!