Flauliers blast Training Board
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'HE ROAD Transport Industry Training Board is heavily critiIzed In recommendations by the Road Haulage Association to he Board on grant and levy exemption arrangements for 1976/77.
The move could be interpreed as an attempt by the RHA o drive a wedge between the tTITB and its controlling 'raining Services Agency. The Lssociation says : " Experince has shown that companies lave been refused exemption ecause of lack of paper work ,nd not because of inadequacy )f training."
Failure in minor aspects of company's training system, hould not stop exemption, ;ays the RHA. An honest inention to provide proper trainng should be taken account of Exemption certificates should ie granted in advance for three rears with provision for withtrawal of the certificate when here was a serious failure to naintain standards.
The too rigid approach of the Training Board had led to the )oor response from employers n seeking exemption from the evy-grant system.
The RHA maintains its origiTel expressed view that, to by John Darker qualify for exemption, a company's training programme, prepared and agreed in advance with the Board, should meet criteria laid down by the TSA. These include the designation of a senior manager or qualified training officer with clear resg,ensibility for training; clear training objectives and associated further education programmes; the clear Identification of the company's own training needs; a system for monitoring training results and updating objectives; demonstration that a company's own training aims are being achieved; a minimum of statistical returns to help the Board with long-term manpower forecasting.
The RHA urges a maximum levy of one per cent, a simple and easily applied exemption procedure and a realistic cutoff figure for small companies exempt from the levy/grant scheme.