Daltons is now able to offer the Woodwise Safe Use of Woodworking Machinery certificate and scheme training partner Didac Ltd is on the verge of signing up a college to the intiative.
Martin James, director of Bristol-based Didac, said that the City & Guilds backed Woodwise scheme which is available to joiners, manufacturers, timber suppliers and the public sector, is concluding a deal with a college to offer woodworking machinery training.
He added that many wood machinists had little training and even less assessment, and that several other avenues of development were in the pipeline with other educational institutions and individual trainers.
Mr James said Woodwise had scope for growth as it was aiming for the “hard to reach learner cohorts”.
This includes the new City & Guilds Safe Use of Woodworking Machinery certificate that Nottingham-based woodworking machinery supplier Daltons is now able to offer as part of its involvement with the initiative.
Daltons, which has three specialist training personnel, all of whom have City & Guilds qualifications, said it was one of the first centres in the UK to offer Woodwise certification to machine operators at all levels and from all sizes of company.
It said the training incorporates practical and theory tests for one or a number of machines depending on the trainees’ requirements.
