Training Ltd

"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 concerned with training in general, and our philosophy on delivering training, rather than detailing Lucid's wide range of health and safety training courses. Follow these links for IOSH courses, Laser Safety courses, LED Safety courses, and laser or IPL 'Core of Knowledge' courses or our range of more general Health and Safety courses

Is the quality of safety 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 own thoughts...

Sometimes health and safety training courses are booked for people, and the prospect of having to attend them does not fill employees with glee, but health and safety can be fun and interesting and we work hard to win the sceptics over. It is only by engaging the trainees that health and safety can become part of the working culture rather than just being seen as an obstacle to be overcome. To find out more about what makes Lucid training special, read on.

Health and Safety Training courses

There are several providers of health and safety training often offering similar sounding courses, or even nominally identical training courses such as the IOSH 'Working Safely' course. The problem is that this does not make the training identical. Where some safety trainers 'go through the motions' to cover the material, others are engaging experts who can inspire and get information over in a lucid more natural manner. Our aim is for health and safety training to be enjoyable and painless, we believe this way people get turned-on to working safely rather than simply regarding Health and Safety as a collection of nuisance rules and regulations.

How should you select a training provider? There is no substitute for a personal recommendation, but otherwise visit the supplier speak to their trainers and check the numbers they take on the courses and the facilities they use. Training providers who train large numbers at once should be viewed with suspicion, as should providers who don't provide a comfortable working environment.

Main course types

Our sister company, Lucid Optical Services Ltd. was set up in 1998 as specialists in communications cabling courses, and gradually established their expertise in telecoms and datacoms cabling, photonics, optical fibre testing and laser safety. Many courses now have certification from the Open College Network, examples being the Advanced OTDR Testing course and the Advanced Chromatic Dispersion and PMD Testing course that are both accredited as level 3 qualifications.

Following the success of the laser safety courses and requests for more general safety training, Lucid Training Ltd has been set up to provide a range of safety training and associated consultancy and auditing to the same high standards as Lucid Optical Services Ltd.

As specialists in these 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.