Intercept Training Group has opened the doors to its new Safety Training Centre at Tuggerah, with an emphasis on the construction industry.
Shadow Minister for the Central Coast, David Harris, was a special guest at the official launch and spent two hours at the centre, checking out the equipment and speaking to guests, who included many employment specialists and employers, all keen to see what training courses they could now offer their clients help them find suitable job opportunities.
Intercept Training General Manager, Brett Watters, said the company was keen to ensure that the training courses offered are in line with community needs.
“We encourage our job providers to let us know if there are in demand courses that we don’t currently offer, and we will look at how we can support them and provide them with what they need,” he said.
“The demand for skilled construction workers in the region has increased significantly over the past year.
“This was one of the key reasons for creating the new construction focused training centre.”
Intercept Training Group has been running job ready training courses on the Central Coast and in Newcastle for more than 23 years.
Courses on offer at the new centre include white card, enter and work in confined spaces, working safely at heights and forklift licences with additional courses such as smoke hazards in confined spaces and harnessed abseiling to be offered next year.
Intercept Training Owner and Director, John Forsyth, said there was a real demand for construction qualifications on the Central Coast.
“Whilst we have always offered the white card and traffic control, with the inception of big businesses and greater construction happening across the Coast, it made sense to expand our award-winning training services to cover a great skillset in this area,” he said.
“Whilst our other training locations provide fantastic facilities for learning across a wide mix of disciplines for every industry, some construction, courses such as the forklift licence and working at heights need much greater space to facilitate.
“It made sense for us to obtain a large warehouse where these courses could be provided to an exceptional level of service all under one roof.”
Course details and enrolments are available at www.intercepttraining.com.au.
Source:
Media release, Sep 15
Intercept Training Group