Jardin Corrugated Cases I shouldn't really be telling you this, but John Lane has really twisted my arm to write this article. The reason for not wanting to tell you, is that I genuinely believe that companies within our industry that fully engage the new NVQ's in Fibreboard Manufacture and Conversion within their training and development programmes will have a serious competitive advantage on those that don't. (And I want to develop a significant competitive advantage to protect my organisation's future during the difficult years ahead of us all). Within our business, we believe that training is paramount to our success. Whilst I know that many organisations also believe this, some perceive training to be "too expensive" to do properly. (The phrase "If you think training is expensive, then try ignorance" springs to mind when I hear of such circumstances!!!). For the last 12 months, many of my personnel have been anxiously awaiting the opportunity to undertake further training within the NVQ framework, and when I saw the first draft late last year, my appetite was well and truly whetted. Receiving the final draft earlier this year, and looking through it in detail, I am positively excited at what the future holds for our business, as we start to train and assess our people towards the new standards. The previous NVQ's addressed the "mechanics" of ensuring that personnel performed their tasks in a safe, accurate and repeatable manner. The new Level III addresses these issues, as well as reaching out to test the awareness of personnel in the wider issues of the way in which our business operates. The new standards also challenge personnel to find ways of improving the safety, accuracy and efficiencies of the tasks that they perform. This can only be a good thing for any forward thinking enterprise.
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