9 Driving & Vehicles courses in Hartley

Our intention is to ensure our students leave us happy, confident and looking forward to years of riding a motorcycle on the road. Most of our instructor team have been with us for over five years and have a wealth of experience between them. We operate from Maidstone and Sittingbourne seven days a week, offering CBT and full licence courses on our own private training areas. All our course prices are inclusive of third-party and damage waiver insurance, and bike hire.

Automatic driving lessons with friendly, patient, experienced and fully qualified male and female driving instructors. Our current Automatic teaching vehicle is a Nissan Micra, which our students have again found has a simple logical layout and is easy to control with good all round visibility when driving, that is why we feel it is ideal as a learning car.

Manual driving lessons with friendly, patient, experienced and fully qualified male and female driving instructors.

The Pass Plus Scheme is not a test, it is an evaluation by your instructor who, when satisfied that you are competent in each of the above types of driving situation will issue a pass plus certificate.

Safe urban Driving

Safe Urban Driving

Training is on Days 1-3. Testing will be on either day 4 or day 5. Course structure: Establish the weight and dimensions of loads and communicate this information to the crane operator. Select appropriate lifting tackle and attach and detach it correctly and safely. Use clear and unambiguous signals to direct the actions of a crane moving loads of various weights and dimensions. Determine the serviceability of lifting accessories, and maintain and store them. Includes ‘Pick & Carry’ Duties training and testing. The course runs for 4 days (3 days of training and 1 days for technical tests). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTRUCTIONS You must also bring your own PPE (boots, hi vis vest or jacket, hard hat and gloves). NB VERY IMPORTANT: All candidates must provide identification in the form of a current Photo ID Driver Licence or Passport. If you do not have one of these please call or email us to ask what suitable alternatives might be. If you are undertaking a CPCS course you MUST have passed an approved CITB or NOCN Health, Safety and Environment Test within the last 2 years. If you are unsure about this requirement, please contact us at cpcs@handsonskills.co.uk [cpcs@handsonskills.co.uk]. If there are any queries regarding this booking, or if you would like to talk to us about further training requirements, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can contact us from Monday to Friday between 09.00 to 16.00 on: Tel: 020 7511 7881 and by email to cpcs@handsonskills.co.uk [cpcs@handsonskills.co.uk] Before you attend the course, please read the joining instructions and training terms and conditions. It is very important that the course delegate understands the course objectives and complies with the centre rules before attending the course in order to gain maximum value from training. Details of the course are as follows: Registration and course timings: Courses will start at 08:00. You should aim to be at the centre a minimum of 15 minutes prior to the course start time for signing in. There is a half hour break at lunch time (approximately at 12:00) and courses generally finish between 15.30 and 16.00. Depending upon the course content, the instructor may require the course to start and finish at different times on subsequent course days (if any). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 📎 SLINGER_manual_PDF_v1.pdf [https://images.cademy.co.uk/c7b286ef-d078-435c-9894-10ef7a805bb6/2e1ef83f-5005-4918-b872-85d56bfedbe4/original.pdf]

M&O of engineering plant and services is becoming more important to the success of the core business. To select the right M&O technique for specific plant and equipment it is necessary to know what options are available, what they deliver and how they should be implemented. This course will help you consider options and techniques that provide best value based on that thorough understanding of the business need. M&O will increasingly be required to demonstrate it is delivering the optimum of cost and value and the main purpose of the course is to show how this can be achieved. Note: this is a purely indicative list of topics that can be covered. The content, duration, objectives and material used would all be adapted to match your specific requirements. This course will help you: * Determine what the business needs from the M&O service * Determine the cost and value of the various M&O options * Prepare and present the business case for the selected M&O strategy * Introduce meaningful KPIs based on performance-based service by the M&O provider * Undertake a review of current M&O and make recommendations for improvement * Introduce energy and carbon management performance criteria in M&O * Better deal with project risk and uncertainties * Motivate others to deliver a reliable and cost effective M&O service Note: this is a purely indicative list of topics that can be covered. The content, duration, objectives and material used would all be adapted to match your specific requirements. 1 WHAT IS MAINTENANCE AND WHAT IS OPERATION? - THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE TO THE BUSINESS 2 COMPARISON OF THE VARIOUS MAINTENANCE OPTIONS AND TECHNIQUES, INCLUDING: * Planned preventative * Run to failure * Condition monitoring * Business focused * Business critical * Total productive * Reliability centred maintenance 3 FORMS OF CONTRACTS AND SERVICE, INCLUDING: * Comprehensive * Input driven * Output driven * Limited replacement * Performance based M&O 4 SELECTING THE RIGHT OPTIONS AND MAKING THE BUSINESS CASE 5 CONTINUOUS COMMISSIONING AS A TOOL FOR DELIVERING BEST VALUE 6 CASE STUDIES

Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) is commonly used to help establish safe minimum levels of maintenance, determine changes to operating procedures and help establish maintenance regimes and plans. Successful implementation can result in cost savings, machine uptime and improved risk management. But the devil's in the detail - how can you achieve these benefits and successfully implement RCM in your organisation? This programme will help you do just that. Note: this is a purely indicative outline. The content, duration, objectives and material used can all be adapted to match your specific requirements. To provide a better understanding of RCM, particularly: * What, why, how and who? * Opportunities and benefits * Risks * Cost effectiveness Note: this is a purely indicative outline. The content, duration, objectives and material used can all be adapted to match your specific requirements. 1 WHAT IS MAINTENANCE? * Why maintain? * Traditional maintenance methods * Common current practices and trends 2 WHAT IS RELIABILITY CENTRED MAINTENANCE? * Its history * Its development * Current usage * Where can it be cost-effective? 3 HOW DOES IT WORK? * Basic features * Key criteria * Maintenance options * Key outcomes 4 MAKING THE BUSINESS CASE AND PREPARING THE STRATEGY * Identifying and quantifying current risks * Identifying and quantifying current costs * Motivating decision-makers * Identifying and empowering those who have to deliver the results * Educating / gaining buy-in from interested parties 5 IMPLEMENTATION * Identify business functions * Prioritise functions * Verify correct usage * Identify failure modes * Identify the consequences of failure * Understand the failure process * Specify the appropriate maintenance action(s) 6 ONGOING REQUIREMENTS * Monitoring * Recording * Analysis * Continuous re-evaluation 7 OPEN DISCUSSION * Sharing experience and addressing specific issues of interest to participants * Course review * Close