Achieving 'hire standard'

The HAE has launched a shared apprenticeship scheme aimed at raising and broadening the knowledge levels of customer facing staff so that rental customers receive high quality and skilled technical advice about machine selection and performance.

Makita has devised and delivered a new training course for these apprentices as an integral module within the HAE’s two-year training scheme. This embraces the general product knowledge delivered by the Makita Be Safe courses that are run in construction colleges and teach core health and safety factors.

Makita will provide an advanced module in the second year of the apprenticeship which will allow more specialisation within the power tool and grounds care machinery business.