Baz Trewhella, learning and development projects specialist at the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), was tasked in 2018 to initiate a project for establishing an apprenticeship standard for the Lifting industry. He explains the progress and scope of the initiative. During the industrial height, the lifting industry found it easy to absorb recruits. A young person seeking their first employment only had to walk down to the docks, for example, where they might be given a job on a crane. In more recent times the lack of apprenticeships has made it hard to channel much needed recruits into an industry with a maturing workforce and a general skills shortage.
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