Forklift trainer expands to Cyprus
Train-a-lift, the forklift training provider based in Canley, is expanding overseas. The company has begun training workers in Cyprus in a bid to reduce the number of industrial accidents which occur in the country.
The company, which has a workforce of 15, provides forklift training and mechanical handling equipment safety training courses.
It said it was able to invest in foreign markets following support from Yorkshire Bank’s Investing for Growth programme.
It is now planning to expand on the 5,000 clients it assists in the UK and branch out in Europe.
David Brown, managing director of Train-a-Lift, said: “Health and safety is not as stringent in Cyprus as it is in the UK and there have been a lot of industrial accidents.
“We have been working with the Health and Training Safety Centre (HTSC) in Cyprus by sending our instructors over there to train workers at a port to safely use handling equipment.
“We have set up a lot of practices and systems in the UK which can easily be transferred to organisations such as the HTSC in Cyprus which shows the importance of businesses having a few strings to their bow.”
