Bespoke Training

Customers are always looking for the best price; but don’t overlook the importance of helpful, well-informed service from your staff as well.

Woodexperts offer a variety of tailor-made training formats, from our modular
Wood Science Workshops to entirely bespoke courses created in partnership with your organisation.

 

Contact us now to enquire about bespoke training

Wood Science Workshops

Overview

In 2019 we introduced a suite of short courses covering the topics of FIRE, MOISTURE, PLYWOOD, HARDWOOD and WOOD PROTECTION which can be delivered at your own premises or a choice of approved venues in London, the Midlands, Yorkshire or the South West.

Format

Up to four half-day workshops and one full-day workshop (Hardwood) from which you can pick and choose the modules that suit you. The perfect, targeted introduction to wood science topics relevant to your staff.

Fully Bespoke Courses

Woodexperts have worked with companies such as BSW Timber to create fully bespoke courses which we regularly deliver in partnership with our client organisations and their customers. Backed up by a combination of engaging presentations, visits to forests and sawmills, extensive handling of real timber samples, handouts and printed workbooks, these courses have proved immensely popular.

Please contact us if you would like to discuss the possibility of creating a training course that addresses the specific needs of your staff or customers.

Appreciation and Refresher Courses

Woodexperts can offer short courses to improve the general knowledge of your staff and encourage them in best practice, including:

  • Appreciation of tiling batten grading to BS 5534
  • Appreciation of scaffold board grading to BS 2482
  • Recognising dangerous or ungraded scaffold boards
  • Refresher training on grading of softwoods, tiling battens and scaffold boards

 

(Please note, these courses do not qualify attendees as graders – but we can help your staff achieve this. See below.)

Visual Strength Grading Proficiency Exams

Woodexperts provide practical training to help your staff achieve a recognised qualification in Visual Strength Grading:

  • Softwoods to BS 4978
  • Temperate Hardwoods to BS 5756
  • Tropical Hardwoods to BS EN 16737: 2016
  • Scaffold Board grading to BS 2482