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Introduction
The Technicians Training Officer, Chris Harris, ensures that you are informed of upcoming training that will help you do your job more effectively and keep you up-to-date with specialist knowledge or new health and safety information.
There is also a small budget set aside for your development, that can fund your place at relevant external training that it is not cost effective, or possible to provide in-house.
Requests for technician training should be submitted to Chris Harris, ext 227608.
Chris will gladly provide help and advice with regard to training requests. Training courses that cater for transferable skills (ie. those which are not departmental specific or specialised) or supplement the technician's ability to carry out their function will be wholly funded from the Technician Training Budget (TTB). Specialist training should be funded by the technician's own Faculty, Department or Section. However, there may be scope in certain circumstances for a contribution to made from the TTB.
If in doubt then please contact Chris to discuss.
List of available training courses for Technicians
The following lists training courses attended by Loughborough University Technicians in recent years. However, the list is not exhaustive. If you have specific training needs that are not covered here, then please do not hesitate to contact Chris Harris and he'll be happy to help. As a general guide, the Staff Development Technicians Training budget will fully fund 'transferable skills and Health and Safety' related training. More specialised or departmental specific training will be subject to negotiation and may attract partial funding from the training budget.
| Subject | Location | Duration | Accredited | Funded |
| Safe use of laboratory gases | external | 1 day | no | yes |
| Crane driving and slinging | internal | 1 day | no | yes |
| Safe use of woodworking machinery | internal | 1 day | no | yes |
| Portable appliance testing | external | 1 day plus exam | yes C&G 2377 | yes |
| 17th edition wiring regs | external | 1 day plus exam | yes C&G | yes |
| Electrical installations | external | day release & evening class plus exam | yes C&G 2330 | subject to negotiation |
| Fork lift truck driver training | external | 3 - 4 days plus exam | yes | subject to negotiation |
| Fork lift truck driver refresher training | external | 1 day plus exam | yes | subject to negotiation |
| Safe use of abrasive wheels | external/internal | 1 day | no | yes |
| Practical Tungsten Inert gas (TIG) welding | external | 1 day | no | yes |
| Leading your technical team | external (residential) | 3 days | no | yes |
| Advanced leading your technical team | external (residential) | 3 days | no | yes |
| Introduction to project management | external | 1 day | no | subject to negotiation |
| Instructional skills for technicians | internal | 2 days | no | yes |
| Safe working with laser equipment | external | 1 day | no | yes |
| LabVIEW for Windows Basics 1 | external (residential) | 2 days | no | SD contribution |
| LabVIEW for Windows Basics 2 | external (residential) | 2 days | no | SD contribution |
| Vocational evening classes | external | evening class | yes/no | subject to negotiation |
| COSHH Control of Substances Hazardous to Health | external/internal | 1 day | no | yes |
| Working at heights awareness | external/internal | 1 day | no | yes |
| Computer aided design | external/internal | evening class | yes/no | subject to negotiation |
| NEBOSH certificate/diploma | external | various options plus exam | yes | subject to negotiation |
| ILM management and coaching | external/internal | various options plus exam | yes | subject to negotiation |
| Distance Learning eg degree with Open University | external | self study plus summer school | yes | subject to negotiation |
| Web page design | external | evening class | yes/no | subject to negotiation |
| Specialist courses (eg Phlebotomy, Biosciences) | external/internal | various | yes/no | subject to negotiation |
HEaTED |
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HEaTED is a national training and career development framework for the UK Higher Education sector. In partnership with the IST HEaTED are continuously developing and delivering a range of services to support the development of technical staff, including a specialist Virtual Learning Environment for HEATED subscribers ( see the HEaTED project pages on the Institute of Science & Technology website). Staff Development pays an annual membership fee to HEaTED to ensure we have access to all available support and development for Loughborough's Technical staff. To find out more about what HEaTED can offer, visit the HEaTED website. if you are interested in any of the activities on offer through HEaTED, please contact Chris Harris, ext 227606 in the first instance. |
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