Learning Light prompts The Safety Train to gain NCFE accreditation
The Safety Train, a company which operates an e-learning training portal aimed at covering all aspects of health & safety training, has been granted an NCFE bespoke quality licence – making it one of the UK’s first e-learning providers to be accredited in this way.
“The NCFE licence accredits our course content,” said Jonathan Blythe, The Safety Train’s Business Development Director. “At present, we’re not aware of any other e-learning provider that has this accredited status.”
Jonathan went on to explain, “The Safety Train grew from a need to provide distance learning in health and safety-related subjects – principally because it was proving difficult to arrange classroom-based courses to suit the diaries of a large number of delegates who were based throughout the UK.”
“Our answer was to form The Safety Train and provide the training via e-learning materials dealing with social care, office health and safety and personal development. These e-learning materials are delivered via streaming video over the web and/or via mobile phone apps - and they offer a low cost to competency.
“Learning Light, a company which focuses on promoting the use of e- learning and learning technologies, advised us to apply for NCFE accreditation because they were certain that the high quality of our courses’ content would meet the NCFE’s accreditation criteria – which proved to be the case.”
NCFE advisor Helen Gregory, who assesses The Safety Train – in terms of how it produces content for its video-delivered courses; how its learning materials interact with learners, and how it measures the learning outcomes - commented: “I was impressed with the enthusiasm together with professionalism of the team from The Safety Train.
“There is no doubt about the commitment of this team towards the NCFE Investing in Quality licence. There is a clear drive to get the course right and I look forward to working with The Safety Train further.”
Learning Light’s Operations Director, David Patterson, commented: “The Safety Train getting accreditation from NCFE illustrates how the training industry is waking up to the potential and power of e-learning. After many years, face-to-face trainers – whom NCFE has been dealing with for about 150 years - are coming to view e-learning not as a threat to their jobs but as a technology to be embraced and exploited.”
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