Look at the Specialsit Courses on the RTL page. Dates coming soon.

Book your space through FLRT 

Folkingham and Loveden Rural Training Group

Programme to date 2025

All these courses will be run subject to sufficient numbers of people being booked on to them.

FLRT reserves the right to cancel courses at short notice if there are not enough attendees booked on.

Courses that are in the planning for 2025 but awaiting firm dates are shown below: - Please advise if these or any other courses are required.

Please ring me if there is something specific that you would like to do. I will do my best to facilitate the Training.

Emergency First Aid at Work (EMFAW)

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Emergency First Aid at Work + Forestry (MFAW +F)

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Dates available on request.

Other dates availablle for a block booking on request.

                Whole day training 9am-4pm

BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW with FLRT. 

There are max 12 places per course available.

Tractor Training.

13-15 year olds.  LANTRA Training.  

Safe use of Abrasive Wheels. LANTRA Course.

All types of Abrasive wheels can be included. Please clarfy on booking which ones you will be bringing. Hand held, Electric, Bench mounted etc.

Fire Awareness. Can include the use of Fire extinguishers and the Fire Warden role. Half Day course. Clasroom based. Engaging instructor who previously was a Fire Officer and uses videos and his real experiences to help protect you from the risks to you and your staff in the workplace and at home.

Modules cover:- Legislation, Risk Assessments, Understanding Fire, Fire fighting equipment, In case of Fire, Fire Precautions and questions.

Welding Practical Training day. Upto 4 people. Mig, Stick or gas welding.  

Safe use of Abrasive Wheels LANTRA ITA. upto 6 people on a training day with some practical included. Bring your own Abrasive wheel. 

Each day will either be Welding or Safe use of Abraive wheels dependent on demand from members. 

Basic Health and Safety or Manual Handling am and Fire pm

HALF DAY COURSE. Classroom based. Covers a wide range of health and safety risks pertinent to the farm or industrial environment. Covers some Health and Safety law and the responsibilities of both employer and employee,  touches on Safe Manual Handling, Fire Awareness etc, Engaging instructor.

Modules cover:-Health & Safety in the Workplace, Hazards inc Risks, control measures and Managing Health and Safety in the workplace.

Risk assessment course. 1 day classroom based. 

Risk Assessment Training

The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1998 require employers to carry out ‘Risk Assessment‘. To carry out effective risk assessment, knowledge and expertise are required. This course gives guidance and information to enable delegates to carry out a logical and effective assessments.

Good risk assessments can assist in the prevention of injuries, property damage incidents and other losses. This not only helps to prevent human loss and suffering but also assists the effective management and finance of any business.

Apart from the corporate and personal benefits arising from assessment, employers and the self employed have a legal duty to make suitable and sufficient assessments of the risks to the health and safety of employees, non-employees and the self employed. The Risk Assessment course is designed for anyone with a responsibility to conduct risk assessments. Employers need to ensure that individuals carrying out risk assessments are competent to do so. Competency does not necessarily require particular qualifications but involves a combination of knowledge, experience, skills and personal qualities. Assessors must have an understanding of the workplace and work activities, knowledge of the best practicable means to reduce risks and an ability to make informed judgements.

Successful completion of the risk assessment training will enable someone to

• Contribute to the risk assessment programmes at their workplaces.
• Conduct risk assessments.
• Organise and implement a risk assessment programme.
• Participate in the identification of specific training needs for the activities being assessed.
• Assist employers in meeting legal requirements and promote improved standards of health and safety within their organisation.

Course Objectives:

• Purpose for and benefits of assessments.
• Principles of assessment and stages involved in carrying out risk assessment in practice.
• State the key legislative requirements.
• Carry out, record, monitor and review assessments within their own working environment, (subject to possession of the necessary technical knowledge and skills).
• Additionally, trainees will be able to realise the limitations of their knowledge and experience and will be aware of where to seek further information, guidance and assistance.

Course length: 6 -7 hours.

Rodent Management Level 2

Classroom based. LANTRA certified with skills card to allow purchase of poison and satisfy ACCS.

Course dates: Courses often happening with other RTL groups. Please email, ring or use contact page to ask for up to date infoormation.

 Happy to book more to meet demand. 

Option to do Elearning on line course via LANTRA 

Recommended to attend a refresher course ever 5 years as legislation changes regularly etc 

Venue TBC

MEWP ****NEW BOOKINGS ****( Mobile Elevated Working Platforms) 

In the last 2 years no one has chosen to take this course with FLRT.

Make this your season to take this training.

It is no longer acceptable by HSE to use a Forklift bucket or man basket for any planned work, only emergencies. 

We need to be thinking of alternative ways of lifting and need to be able to control the lift by the operator at height. 

 Now have an integrated course that covers MEWP and Scissor lift in one day. The venue will need to have on site both machines for the training day. 

Max 4 on each course. DATES TO COME

Please register your interest and book your places

Pesticide courses:- Next training dates. 

• PA1  Foundation Module training.  Venue often is Potterhanworth.   NPTC Assessment on the same day, after the training.  Done Monthly. 
• PA 2 Boom Sprayer training. Followed by the NPTC Assessment on your own farm/venue soon afterwards. Done monthly 
• PA4 S& G training. Followed by the NPTC Assessment on your own farm/venue soon afterwards.
• PA6 A& AW Handheld training.  Followed by NPTC Assessment at your venue/farm soon afterwards.   

NROSO Training.

Half day training in the classroom  each year. 

Happy to book more to meet demand. PA SC ( special category) PA9 Fogging, Misting and/or Smokes. 

• Venue:tbc and various. 

Chainsaw courses.   BOOK ASAP 

I have booked some dates to satisfy recent demand and to ensure that you can  keep skills up to date with refreshers to help prevent accidents.

 Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross Cutting. 

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• Chipper course, Integrated Training and Assessment.  ( NPTC 1 day) 
• 2 day Chainsaw maint & x cutting. 
• 3 day felling to 380mm
• 5 day Chainsaw course inc Felling adn processing to 380mm 
• Chainsaw maintenance /cross cutting and felling refreshers available. 
• Over 380 NPTC integrated Training and Assessment. NPTC 
• Aerial climbing and cutting courses etc
• Brushcutter Integrated Training and Assessment ( NPTC or LANTRA) 
• Manual Wood chipper courses NPTC ITA or LANTRA  
• Clearing saw 
• Polesaw training
• Further chainsaw courses available by arrangement and request. 

Instructor:  Various and Venues tbc. – various. 

Please ask for dates.

Courses allocated dependent on demand. 

Portable Appliance PAT  testing course.  One course at least each year is run

• BOSTON & NORTH WASH TRAINING GROUP

  FACTS

  Tutor: Jim Lewis

  Please request places ASAP through FLRT email or phone or contact page, so instructor can be booekd for the 2023 spring season. 

  Progressive farmers have long required their fertiliser advisers to be properly FACTS qualified, but with increasing requirements to demonstrate professionalism (whilst gaining a better understanding of fertilisers and plant nutrition) many are now taking the qualification themselves.

  Legislation, Assurance Schemes and retailer protocols require that suppliers should only source advice from appropriately qualified sources.                                                                                                                        The FACTS award is the standard industry qualification for those selling or advising on the use of crop fertilisers.

  Training is delivered in a series of structured modules covering

  The Codes of Good Agricultural Practice, Nitrate Vulnerable Zones and Water Framework Directive:
  Water, Soil and Air. Environmental protection and legislation.

  The Soil in Relation to Plant Nutrition:
  Major, secondary and trace elements. Soil acidification. Liming materials and making recommendations. The role of plant nutrients.

  The Nature and Properties of Fertilisers:
  Manufacturing techniques. Raw materials. Fertiliser categories. Statutory declarations. Terminology and definitions.

  Organic Fertilisers (Slurries / FYM):
  Establishing the nutrient content. Using organics in fertiliser programmes.
  Calculating nutrient requirements for a variety of crops. Working with nutrient balance sheets.

  The Transport, Storage and Handling of Fertilisers:
  Storage locations, storage constraints. safety criteria. Statutory requirements.
  Notification of stores. Hauling fertilisers on the public highway.

  Recognition of Trace Element Deficiencies:
  Visual symptoms. Nutrient interactions. Antagonisms and the law of the minimum.

  Application of Fertiliser:
  Solids and Liquids. Application techniques and rate calculation. Problem solving. Safe practice.

  Assessment is by means of a multiple-choice examination and a fifteen minute oral exam.

  For more details or to book a place please contact                                                                               Margaret Dawson: 01205 480898 E-mail: dawsonm@dialstart.net

• Fertiliser Advisers Certification & Training Scheme

Forklift courses:  BOOK ASAP to ensure you get a space.

You will need to consider the level of ability of your attendee carefully so that together we can be sure that they are on the correct length of course.

• 2 days or more for novices, and those with very little confidnece or experience
• 1 day for experienced regular users or those doing refresher training. You will need to complete a Flexibility form that details the operators regular use and experience on the selected machine.  This is especially important when booking for people who have no previous formal qualification for the machine.  

      3 attendees per course.Ideally 3 people from the same business to adhere to Covid regulations whereever possible. 

The Forklift courses will be run at the venue of one of the attendees.

LANTRA have recently changed their certification for the Rough Terrain Forklift courses and you can now have each individual attachment itemised on your certificate. This is as long as it is availble to use on the day. Bucket, forks, grainpusher, bale spike, etc

Courses running all year. Will be some 2 day courses pre Harvest for Novice operators and refreshing one day courses for those with significant experience or previous training.

ASK ASAP SO I CAN RESERVE YOU PLACES 

Industrial Counterbalance or Rough Terrain Telescopic

A Last thought ......................

 Agriculture Health and Safety: How to Meet Your Legal Responsibilities

with the provider Lantra Online Academy

Price: £20.00 (£20.00 + VAT)This course, developed with HSE assistance, will help you prepare for an inspection and help you identify and manage safety risks. If you control or manage a farm, you are legally responsible for your safety and that of your employees, contractors, visitors, and anyone affected by your work.

This course will give straightforward advice on how to comply with safety law, and where to find guidance on good practice to work safely. This course has 8 modules, takes approximately 2-2.5 hours, and awards a Certificate of Attendance upon successful completion.