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INDEPENDENT
TRAINING STANDARDS SCHEME AND REGISTER
Armstrong House
28 Broad Street
Wokingham, Berkshire
RG4O lAB
Telephone
: 0118
989 3229
Fax 0118 979 6058
E-mail
itssar@linpone.net
www.itssar.org.uk
10
March 2005
During
1989 and 1990 the Council of the Association
of Industrial Truck Trainers, composed of the leaders in the fork
truck industry were in discussion with the Health and Safety
Executive to establish an accreditation scheme. This new scheme was
to be totally independent from commercial training organisations to
avoid bias. Hence HSE’s aim was to separate the training side from
the assessment side.
Accordingly HSE stipulated that A1TT could receive accrediting body
status only if a completely independent company were formed, run
separately from AlIT. Thus ITSSAR was set up in this manner to
monitor and maintain standards.
ITSSAR
in the early days was competing with other accrediting bodies, who
were well established and been running for years but the quality of
1TSSAR’s standards and monitoring were such that it has gained a
reputation, which others now try to emulate.
Over
the years ITSSAR has written and produced course syllabus manuals
for almost every type of truck, and still continues to do so. This
has enabled ITSSAR to go from strength to strength and now has over
240 training organisations accredited and 3600 instructors
registered.
ITSSAR
although non-profit making has sometimes shown a small profit at the
end of their financial year. This is used to ensure that standards
could be maintained and improved. It is also used to pay the AITT a
voluntary levy twice yearly for the use of its accreditation scheme.
AlIT
Council has indicated it would now like to merge AlIT and ITSSAR and
use the success and money of 1TSSAR to promote the AlTT. ITSSAR is
opposed to this because at present, members of committees (who are
commercial trainers) have no control or access to the
ITSSAR
database. One of 1TSSAR’s main worries would be the collapse of this
barrier thus enabling training companies being able to use the
database to their own ends.
The
directors of 1TSSAR, who have discussed this in depth, and feel that
this merger would be of no benefit to ITSSAR, it’s monitoring or the
up keep of the standards, nor the ITSSAR registrants.
Consequently ITSSAR has applied to the HSE for accreditation in its
own right. We are now very pleased to announce that this
accreditation was awarded to ITSSAR on Tuesday
8th
March 2000
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