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Closing Skills Gaps
Top tips to improve your training needs analysis In the last edition, we looked at the structure for a training needs analysis (TNA). Now that you understand the importance of...
A Consultant’s Reflections
Your author discusses frustrations with U.K. regulations. The decision to scrap the UK Conformity Assessment (UKCA) mark and recognise the European Union (EU) CE mark is welcome, but too long...
Works Despite Quirks
Liability cap upheld by TCC notwithstanding difficult language In Drax Energy Solutions Ltd. v Wipro Ltd. [2023], the Technology & Construction Court (“TCC”) upheld a contractual clause said to impose...
Training Needs Analysis
How to help your staff help you. Why is training, and even lifelong learning, important? Well, what our grandfathers learnt was pretty much the same as what their grandfathers learnt....
Psychological Barriers
Even those with relatively high levels of training and education can be sidetracked. This issue of ELEVATOR WORLD UK focuses upon training and education, and I might share an experience...
Fractions in a Day
How do the courts interpret a “day” under a construction contract? In Elements (Europe) Ltd v. FK Building Ltd. [2023], the Technology & Construction Court (“TCC”) has provided helpful guidance...
The Behaviour Change Cultivator
Is there an ideal approach? Management education and development is a lucrative business. Training provides us with new skills and concepts (head stuff), but do the things that are learnt...
A Cause for Concern
A look at the relationship between asbestos-containing materials and lifts, including risks to personnel Whilst writing this article during Global Asbestos Awareness Week (1-7 April 2023), I reflect upon discussions...
The Risks of Contracting With a Dormant Company
The case presented shows the importance of checking the identity and status of proposed parties when agreeing to a contract. In WRB (NI) Ltd. Henry Construction Projects Ltd. [2023], the...
Systems vs. Culture
Who wins? A hell of a lot of what we do is about implementing “systems”; we want to help make client company systems and processes slick. But there is a...
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