NEWS FOR COUNCILS, CONTRACTORS AND LANDSCAPERS
IN THIS ISSUE
quality assured trainers and assessors such as Lantra and City & Guilds.
Leading the way
with comprehensive training
Whether you're a turfcare professional at a sports stadium, amenity and parkland setting, school or small holding, Reesink has a training course to enable you to be at the very top of your game.
Bringing the same extensive range of industry-leading courses and levels of training as it does every year, the 16-page Reesink Training Guide for 2018 can be found here.
There, turfcare professionals and employers keen to offer staff the opportunity to learn and expand their areas of interest, will find Reesink's biggest range of vocational training for land-based disciplines delivered with Lantra, the national awarding organisation. Alongside that is City & Guilds training and Toro and TYM manufacturer-backed turfcare machinery training. In total, there are nine courses available to choose from, one of the biggest selections from a distributor.
Neil Adams, head of turfcare training at Reesink, says: "Whether a turf professional at a golf club, sports stadium, amenity and parkland setting, school or small holding, Reesink works closely with Toro and TYM to provide a wide range of courses. These are delivered by nationally recognised quality assured trainers and assessors to develop skills and competency in the use of mowers, spraying units and tractors.
"Working with accredited training bodies such as Lantra and City & Guilds to level two and Toro and TYM manufacturer-backed training to level one means we have a comprehensive training offering to suit everybody."
Neil continues: "This range of training courses demonstrates our belief in continuously improving standards in the industry. We aim to make training convenient with some courses delivered at the trainees' working premises, too, using familiar equipment in a familiar environment. This set-up means it could not be easier for customers to develop and invest in their employees."
This range of training courses demonstrates our belief in continuously improving standards in the industry.
Neil Adams
Head of turfcare training at Reesink
The courses available include:
Safe use of ride-on mowers, operator training, level one
This is practical training and assessment in the use of mower operations, showing that the operator can manoeuvre the mower skillfully and safely.
Turfcare mechanic course, mechanical training, level one
Troubleshooting, routine servicing and maintenance of Toro groundscare machinery. Principles and factors that affect clip, unit configuration and after-cut appearance and how to use the handheld diagnostic systems.
Cutting technology and after-cut experience, level one
A nice introduction to troubleshooting, routine servicing and maintenance of cutting units, delivered in partnership with Bernhard Grinders covering agronomy principles with factors that affect clip rate, unit configuration and after-cut appearance, and grinding procedures.
Sprayer technician calibration training, sprayer
training, level one
Operation and calibration of the Toro range of sprayers including controllers, monitors, troubleshooting, routine servicing and maintenance, plus operating sonic booms and agitation nozzles.
Train the trainer course, instructor level, trainer training
Instructional techniques and effective delivery methods. How to use resources, improving verbal communication, identifying the pitfalls of running a practical session with basic health and safety when operating machines.
Compact tractor driving award, tractor training level one
Tractors are very versatile vehicles with a wide variety of uses. The ever-wider range of types and attachments now available makes them even more versatile and effective tools. Learning to perform routine maintenance to the standard of the manufacturers’ instruction manual to ensure the tractor is in a safe road-going state.
Safe use of ride-on mowers (leading to a nationally recognised qualification), operator training, level two
This is practical training and assessment in the use of mower operations, showing that the operator can manoeuvre the mower skilfully and safely.
Professional sprayer technician course (leading to a nationally recognised qualification), sprayer training, level two
To understand legislation when storing and applying chemicals safely and the use of pesticides. Please note, you will require full Chemical Application PPE for this event.
Compact tractor driving award (Leading to a nationally recognised qualification), tractor training, level two
Tractors are very versatile vehicles with a wide variety of uses. The ever-wider range of types and attachments now available makes them even more versatile and effective tools. Learning to perform routine maintenance to the standard of the manufacturers’ instruction manual to ensure the tractor is in a safe road-going state.
Click here to view this year's training guide and all that is available, plus details on how to book.
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