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Some more photo’s from training courses carried out so far this year.

Its been a busy start to 2026 with Steve working 7 days a week from early January, helping long standing customers to remain compliant. Here are just a small selection of some of the courses carried out.

Its always nice to hear feedback from a customer, recently I spent 9 days with a new customer conducting mainly refresher B1 forklift training, also some experienced (and rusty) training & a novice course. The staff were all enthusiastic & engaged with the training & keen. Cracking results as they all responded positively to the correctional training given. All passed the training assessments.

I even managed to take home some of their finest ale – Tally Ho! is something else, I can vouch for that……or what I can remember. Have a great Christmas everyone & a Happy New Year, here’s to all the best in 2026

If you need to discuss your site training requirements, please get in touch with Steve: steve@smctrainingservice.co.uk or call 07870 901167.

We have been busy all over the South West helping customers to remain compliant. Also, SMC Training helps other Training providers locally out on a subcontract basis.

We have delivered ALLMI Accredited Lorry Loader & Slinger/Signaller training to a variety of customers this year, some are long standing returning customers! In nearly all cases the customers have opted to gain DCPC hours towards the drivers 35 hr 5 yearly total required to maintain their Driver Qualification CPC cards. This is something we have offered our clients for many years now, and makes perfect sense to do whilst the training takes place. Covering nationally or mainly in the South West, please get in touch to discuss your training requirements today.

Call Steve on : 07870 901167  or email: steve@smctrainingservice.co.uk

Here at SMC Training, if we can, we like to give course delegates real world experience of some of the tasks that they will be expected to undertake. When possible I like to get the course delegates unloading pallets of goods. In this next set of pictures (taken by someone else) you can see this very inexperienced course delegate being guided under the strict supervision of Steve, unloading a pallet of goods weighing about 850kgs from a large goods vehicle from start to finish.

Rest assured, his visual checks were plentiful and constant! I believe in giving course delegates experience in doing this if we have time, also smaller vans are trickier to deal with. We only did 1 or 2 pallets each delegate, the usual forklift operator completed the lorry, 26 pallets takes a while.

Please get in touch, to discuss your companies training requirements – 07870 901167 or email : steve@smctrainingservice.co.uk

I was recently tasked with providing some ALLMI Accredited Slinger/Signaller training for some Network Rail staff. Carried out at their Doncaster depot. Now the staff are completely prepared and suitably qualified for all the jobs they will be tasked with moving forward.

Helping out to train the local council staff team with some Telehandler training, these course delegates underwent a variety of tasks, using the different attachments that they would use in their daily routines. All of them took to the machine very well. Demonstrating very high levels of skill and control.

Sometimes you only have a limited amount of space to train in, due to this you have to adapt the training to the tight locations! Still a test has to be conducted, so we do the best we can.