Congratulations and thank you to our team at Progressive Training on achieving re-registration for another 7 years with our regulatory authority. I acknowledge the leadership of our CEO Jason Driscoll supported by Steve Meeny in Compliance, Casey Taylor in Client Services, Sue Backshall in Business Development, Kris and Ree in Finance, Stacey Ackley It Support and Graem Watts, in WorkSafe and high-risk training.
 
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I further acknowledge David Sims and Aidan Feddersen in Glass and Glazing who have raised the training and assessment services to a very high standard. We thank the Glass and Glazing businesses that utilise our services and key industry representatives Peter den Boer, Patrick Gavaghan and Steve Cuff for their exceptional support of us as we have worked through industry specific audits, and ongoing continuous improvements on what we took over a few years ago from another provider.
 
Thank you to Amanda Dawson for leading our Childcare Training and the invaluable support from Kelly Burton and staff from Bambi Child Care Centre and Kylie Quinones from Early Explorers Learning Centre.
 
I also acknowledge the contribution of Geoff Oliver who has provided valuable compliance support to us for years. Geoff has challenged and trained our team towards meeting the ever-increasing regulatory burden.
 
We thank our clients and those who operate in auspicing arrangements with us for their contribution and trust, when we have continued to ask more and more from you as compliance and audit requirements significantly ramped up from 2015 onwards.
 
We look forward to serving the VET sector in the coming years as we strive to enable students to gain qualifications for a range of employment streams, and specific skills to help them in the workplace.
 
Geoff and Kris Feddersen
Directors

Now this is a man of many talents – not only did he share his birthday cake with us, he also harvested the honey that went into the ‘honey layer cake’! 
We are a talented lot here you know – not only do we have some of the best trainers on staff you could possibly want but they too are a truly talented when it comes to choosing their life partners especially when it comes to cooking and kitchen skills! 

Progressive Training (WA) Pty Ltd offers the following products and services -

• Nationally Recognised Qualifications
• Non-Accredited Courses
• Plant & Equipment Training
• Verification of Competency Assessments
• Qualification Upgrades & Conversions
• Training Room Hire
• Auspice/Partnering Arrangements
• Training Resource Development
• System Auditing (RTO’s & GTO’s)
• Technical writing services
• Preparation of documentation including work procedures
• Professional consultancy to suit your requirements

 
We welcome your enquiries across our wide range of service offerings as well as other areas in which we may be able to offer assistance.  Please call us on (08)9964 9497 or visit our website www.progressivetraining.com.au

Before we know it Christmas will be upon us – a scary thought, I know! This edition is one of the last for 2013 with just one more issue of Newsline to be distributed before the end of the year. Keep an eye out for our Christmas issue!

I have just returned from a wonderful five week holiday in Europe where I spent my time enjoying the Netherlands, the magnificent scenery of the Rhine and Moselle rivers and the history and architecture of Germany and France. The Bavarian area of Germany is something else! Hope you enjoy the few photos (of the more than 1200 that I took!) that have been included in this issue.

The team here did a magnificent job of keeping everything in perfect running order while I was away and I thank each and every team member for their contribution. Plans are underway for our Management Team meeting to be held mid-November – this meeting will concentrate on our plans and targets for 2014 and beyond. Our internal audit will also occur early in November.

Over that past four months I’ve been working on a number of projects at Port Hedland.
The majority of the projects are focused in the electrical technical training area in meeting BHP Billiton’s requirements under the Mines Safety & Inspection Act.
These include:
• HV Switching Operator Levels 1, 2 & 3.
• Substation Safety & Arc Flash
• Statutory requirements for Electrical Supervisors
• Electrical Welding
• Electrical Induction
• Electrical Safety Observer
• Low Voltage Safety Procedures

In August Geoff headed off to Christmas Island to conduct an audit for the Department of Training and Workforce Development.

Christmas Island is a natural wonder - a remote tropical island famous for its unique red crabs, robber crabs and spectacular bird life. It is an Australian Territory which lies way out in the Indian Ocean 2,600 kilometers northwest of Perth and 500 kilometers south of Indonesia's capital Jakarta.

Lyn and I have just returned from our third visit to Italy. There is something special about this country that we both love. Maybe back in history a friendly Roman took a liking to a lovely welsh lass and that's where the love of Italy started for the Davies, who knows.

Yet again Lyn turned her hand to travel consultancy and turned out a fantastic holiday for us both.

We began the Italian leg of the holiday in Turin. Arrived at around 11:00pm then up and off at 7:00am the next morning (what jet lag?). Here we took in a number of cathedrals, Egyptian museum (best outside of Cairo), Mole Antonelliana and of course the Shroud of Turin (only the copy).