a Regarding the Road Transport Industry Training Board—what arrangements will be
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made as to occupations found in several industries, including road transport?
AThis problem will inevitably arise as more and more industries set up their own training boards.
In its second report the Central Training Council states that because of differing industrial situations there could not, and indeed should not, be uniformity in detail between recommendations published by different boards for similar occupations. But major differences were obviously undesirable and conflicting recommendations might tend to prevent movement between one industry and another, creating special problems for firms with interests in more than one industry.
However, there were a number of ways by which such problems could be overcome, the Council considered. One was the establishment by boards of joint committees such as one between the Engineering Board and the Iron and Steel Board. Liaison on a more informal basis could also achieve satisfactory results and the Boards for the Construction, Furniture and Timber and Shipbuilding industries had established a joint working party to look into the training of wood-cutting machinists. There were also occupations in which one board held a main interest and where it would be reasonable to expect other boards to follow the standards which it set. The Council understood that the Ministry of Labour had accepted the task of identifying the Board with such a major interest and would seek to establish suitable administrative arrangements whereby it could offer guidance and promote cooperation between all the boards concerned.
While policy decisions and the means of their implementation have still to be finalized by many of the existing boards, it would seem that the Road Transport Board would have the main interest in determining the standards applicable to C-licence fleets although the companies operating them would be concerned with other industries and their appropriate training boards.