Training - not just Health and Safety
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle
This page is mostly concerned with training in general, and our philosophy on delivering training, rather than detailing Lucid's health and safety training courses. If you are looking for our health and safety training courses, most of these are listed below with links to some pages with more details.
Our sister company, Lucid Optical Services Ltd, provides technology training courses, but we work closely with them on Laser safety and LED safety training courses, seminars and workshops.
Health and Safety Training Courses
We are specialists in Health and Safety courses, the main training course areas being:
As specialists in these health and safety fields we can offer what we believe is the very highest quality of training, with trainers able to answer questions often far beyond the course syllabus requirements. Our trainers never just read the slides, and trainees are encouraged to ask questions.
We could offer a wider range of courses, but we don't believe in offering courses where other specialists may be better able to answer questions and support you. If we don't feel we are delivering the best training available in a subject area, then we will recommend somebody else. We are truly independent, we are truly expert in our field and we don't sell products or courses from anybody else.
For a Lucid Training corporate leaflet or brocures on any of our Health and Safety training courses please contact us.
Is the quality of training important?
We believe it is. We appreciate that people don't do training courses for no reason, and we firmly believe that for you to get the most from a training course it should be:
- well-structured
- relaxed and fun
- independent
- developed by subject experts
- delivered by training professionals
At Lucid all of our trainers are both subject experts and training professionals. Within the training team we have a blend of academic knowledge and real-world field experience. Others may make similar claims, but we don't see them listing their trainers by name with details of their experience and expertise on their websites. Why is this? Well we have our thoughts...
The quality of our training is something we take great pride in. It is important to us and we feel it should be important to anybody investing in training, not least when that training is in health and safety - something that can affect your future career, retirement and life.
Beyond Health and Safety Training Courses
If required our health and safety trainers are also experienced health and safety practitioners able to help with writing and auditing procedures, doing risk assessments, and generally advising on many aspects of health and safety.
Some of our clients have chosen to emply us as their health and safety specialist and we have accepted the role of appointed person working for them on a contracts basis for a number of days per month. If you are interested in discussing our health and safety services and the role we might perform for you business please contact us to arrange a meeting.
"...beyond the scope of this course"
The favourite phrase of trainers who can't answer your questions or put selling you more above providing value for money. Lucid trainers do not use this phrase and do not 'bull-****'. In the rare event that we are unable to answer a question on the spot, we refer the question back to colleagues and we get back to you with a correct answer.
Other phrases favoured by less knowledgable trainers are:
- "it would take me too long to explain"
- "that's not an appropriate question"
- "you'll have to come back on another course "
- "you're just here to cause trouble"
- "we've no time for further questions"
OK, there are times when questions can eat up time and take the course off at a tangent, but Lucid trainers will normally ask if the question is appropriate or important to others in the group, and if not will suggest answering it at a break time. Where a question is important to the whole group it can be covered for the group, and Lucid trainers will, and often do, stay later to answer your questions.
Above all you'll find Lucid trainers friendly and honest. We're here to help and we enjoy being helpful.
