New training centre for Atlas
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• Atlas Express Ltd. opened its third training centre last week. The new school at Coalville, Leicestershire, like its counterparts at Rutherglen and Rotherhithe, is an integral part of the operating centre which contains the workshop, parcels dispatch area and the training centre. The Atlas training schedule is four-tier structure which caters for management, drivers, fitters and loading operatives. Each course is designed to be of relatively short duration and will deal with a specific aspect of transport on each occasion, The Atlas staff will be expected to attend more than one course each year, and it is understood that there will be training places for 500 students annually at each centre. In this way the company plans to keep its staff in step with important events in the industry and it will occupy each training centre for 95 per cent of its training potential.
Management meetings at Atlas now take the form of a seminar when depot managers in each area meet at the training centreg. Following the discussion' of policy matters the managers then discuss one aspect of management. At the Rotherhithe depot on Monday, CM's deputy editor, lain Sherriff, led the discussion on "The role of the manager in respect of maintenance".
Atlas hopes to open a fourth school in Manchester. Mr. C. Nelson Smith, the company's training director, told CM that he welcomed the new receptive attitude to training. "Training is not only accepted at all levels in Atlas, but there is a genuine desire for it," he said.