ARE YOU LOOKING TO RECRUIT?

This is the time to consider your Apprenticeship Recruitment

SHARED APPRENTICESHIP PILOT

We are working with the Shared Apprenticeship Scheme to provide two places with group members for two Carpenter and Joiners as part of the pilot project The apprentices are employed by the scheme and are charged out to employers on a weekly basis, the shared apprenticeship scheme cover PAYE; NI; Holidays etc. The scheme also organise all the college training, paperwork college fees We have two potential recruits:- 17 year old with twelve month at college and twelve months site experience and 20 year old with a couple of year site experience We need four employers to offer the apprentices placements over the next two years – please let me know if you can take part in this interesting pilot.

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Next Meeting 12th July 2017

PLYMOUTH CONSTRUCTION

TRAINING GROUP

NEWSLETTER

June 2017

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Shared Scheme P.1

Assessor & NVQ programme P.2

HSE update P.2

HSE Business plan 17/18 P.3

Building Plymouth Update P.4

Tool box talk June Sun & UV P.5

PCTG meeting 12 th July P6

2017 meetings & Events P.5

News update from Plymouth Construction Training Group bpplymouthctg@btint

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Raising Money for

Asthma UK

Matthew & Jack

Elmes are with a few

friends and

colleagues tacked

“Europe's Toughest

Trek" the GR20 in

Corsica on June 11th

2017

They completed the

trek in 12 days and

rised £1200 for

Asthma UK

Very well Done !!!

http://jenny.bradshaw.muchl

oved.com/

Health and Safety Executive on-line help available.

You may use it already - but

did you know -.......

The Health & Safety Executive provide much useful information on their website www.hse.gov.uk

An example of this is HSE's 'Construction' section "What you need to know as a busy builder". Good, clear, simple advice about good and unacceptable practice.

Try http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/areyou/builder.htm.

Another good source of information provided by HSE is the Bulletin service. CONSTRUCTION INFONET is for builders and contains a wealth of current information.

April 2017

Western Power Ltd fined for

death of employee in

Cawsand Cornwall – poor

method statements and co-

ordination and working at

height £1m+

Two companies fined after

worker struck by scaffolding

being lifted by crane –

insufficient management of

method statements and audit

of lifting operations

HSE headlines –

HSE Business Plan 2017 –

2018

Follow the conversation on

social media

https://twitter.com/H_S_E

Assessor Training and NVQ OSAT Project

Do you have any staff who need to gain a NVQ 2 – 6 to

gain their CSCS card?

Do you have anyone in your organisation you would like to

train as an assessor?

We have a training provider in Plymouth who from 1st July

will be offering a 2 day Assessor Training Course @£100

per person (plus two visits to observe the candidate

assessing a NVQ candidate) to gain the formal

qualification.

The next seminar is 17th July please book a place free of

charge

NVQ achievement via On Site Assessment (no time off

site) L2 and L3 trade qualification to gain CSCS cards

approx. £200 (CITB grant £400) L4 – L6 supervisory;

management and H&S NVQs approx. £400 (CITB grant

£400)

I also have access to another source of funding to pay for

admin and management training

Should you have any requirements for the above please

let me know and I will refer you to the appropriate

providers – these are really good deals normally NVQ’s

via OSAT can cost £1200 and assessor training a similar

amount

Please come to the meeting on 12th July to find out more

The construction sector ranges

from large, highprofile projects by

major contractors to small

projects by the self-employed.

Around 2.2 million people work in

the sector, representing around

7% of the GB workforce. It

contributes around £97 billion to

the economy, equivalent to

around 6 % of the total. It is

dominated by smaller firms with

around 84% haing no employees

and another 14% having 9 or

fewer workers.

Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive

Priorities

Current position Current position

• Reducing incidents of ill health, with a particular focus on occupational lung disease

and musculoskeletal disorders

• Supporting small businesses to achieve improved risk management and control

• Embedding the principles of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations

2015 (CDM)

HSE Stats 0.6 Million Non-fatal injuries to workers in 2015/16

1.3 million Workers suffering from a work-related illness

(new or long standing) in 2015/16

144 Fatal injuries to workers in 2015/16

72,702 Non-fatal injuries to employees reported by employers

in 2015/16

2515 Mesothelioma deaths in 2014, with a similar number of

lung cancer deaths linked to past exposures to asbestos

30.4 million Working days lost due to work-related illness and

non-fatal workplace injuries in 2015/16

4.8 billion Annual costs of workplace injury in 2014/15

11, 403 Notices issued by all enforcing bodies in 2015/16

Sources HSE Statistics

HSE

H&S Sector Business Plan 2017-

2018

Project Sponsors

Building Plymouth Update

School engagement

Co-ordinate a city wide approach under

the C E SW ‘Adopt a School’ model

joining up efforts to increase awareness

of career opportunities in construction

and the built environment with local

secondary schools

Increase coordinated ‘in education’

work placement opportunities

maximising the impact of employment

and skills plans

Exploit the opportunities of partnering

with the National Marine Aquarium for

STEMfest (September 2017)

Employer engagement

Facilitate greater transparency of

Plymouth City Council’s major capital

investment programme which aims to

invest circa £100m per year for the next

5 years. In turn, access to local

procurement opportunities should lead

to a higher level of commitment to

investing in local skills and

employment

Increase the visibility of job/

apprenticeship opportunities through

supporting local employers and actively

promoting vacancies to target

audiences

Work in collaboration with funding

organisations to promote skills and

training funding opportunities

particularly focusing on local small to

medium-sized enterprises

Utilise the new Building Plymouth

website development to articulate our

‘offer’ to local employers

Encourage industry to support

community engagement activities and

in particular, contribute to

Mayflower400

Tool Box Talk June – Sun & UV Protection

Feeling the heat? What can you do to keep your employees safe? As the start of the Summer creeps in, and as temperatures soar, many workers are spending days in unbearably warm offices or working outdoors in the blazing sunshine.

The health and safety of employees is the main priority, and it is the employers’ duty to ensure staff are comfortable and protected from harmful UV rays during the summer months. Actions you can take for employees working outdoors: • Reschedule work to cooler times of the day • Provide more frequent rest breaks and introduce shading to rest areas • Provide free access to cool drinking water • Introduce shading in areas where individuals are working • Encourage the removal of personal protective equipment when resting in safe areas to help encourage heat loss • Educate workers about recognising the early symptoms of heat stress • Can employees wear shorts on site? If the risk assessment requires protective clothing of any kind, this must be work or the work activity adjusted and assessed again

Actions you can take for employees working indoors: • Provide fans, e.g. desk, pedestal or ceiling-mounted fans • Ensure what windows can be opened • Shade employees from direct sunlight with blinds or by using reflective film on windows to reduce the heating effects of the sun • Site workstations away from direct sunlight or other situations or objects that radiate heat (e.g. plant or machinery) • Relax formal dress code – but you must ensure that personal protective equipment is provided and used if required • Allow sufficient breaks to enable employees to get cold drinks or cool down • Provide additional facilities, e.g. cold water dispensers (water is preferable to caffeine or carbonated drinks) • Provide air-cooling or air-conditioning plant

View the Toolbox Talk video on Sun and UV Protection.

Too watch the video

http://www.ssg.co.uk/

Meeting 12th July 2017

As part of the meeting we will be running a workshop to help members

bid for the CITB Skills and Training fund designed for SME’s

The group have spent most of the £25K that CITB gave us in January

2017 as so many of the members have been carrying out a lot of training,

therefore we won’t be able to offer the sizable discounts to members

when it finally runs out, (all training will then be at ex VAT therefore 20%

plus the negotiated discounts, still pretty good)

To fill the void we’d like to help you bid for the additional CITB funding

which will fully fund the training you bid for

I’ll bring forms; guidance notes; etc., so we can work on them next week,

below is a video on how to apply

https://www.citb.co.uk/funding/how-to-apply-for-funding/quick-guide-skills-and-training-application/

We will also be presenting details of the assessor training detailed above Along with an update on “Adopt a School” and the shared apprenticeship scheme Please come along to Nash Solicitors Board Room who are kindly hosting the meeting

Events and Meetings Diary

Plymouth Group meeting 12th July 2017 – NASH Solicitors Hosting Plymouth Group meeting 27th September 2017 – Venue TBC Plymouth Group meeting 6th December 2017 – Venue TBC

Events

CE event – Bond Dickinson Employment Law event – Plymouth CE Plymouth Meets CE Exeter 13th July Atrium School Ashburton CE Cornwall Construction Innovation Digital and Offsite 21st July Foot Anstey Truro Building of the year competition – Deadline 1st September 2017 Armed Covenant Day – Guildhall Plymouth 19th September SWWIC annual LWIL – Pentille Castle Cornwall 22nd September First Thursday 5th October Sponsored by PCTG and Building Plymouth Exeter Construction Group Annual Dinner Exeter Castle 27th October City College Open Day 4th November 2017 Autumn Dinner (formerly the Drake Lecture) – Holiday Inn 24th November

More details on the respective websites

More events to be added each month

Plymouth Construction Training Group

www.plymouthconstructiontraining.com

enquiries@plymouthconstructiontraining.co.uk

bpplymouthctg@btinternet.com

07802 729611