IMPACT HANDLING INDUSTRY-WIDE SKILLS SHORTAGE WITH APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME
1 October 2015The UK’s sole Cat® Lift Truck distributor Impact Handling is countering the acute skills shortage in the logistics and materials handling industry with its apprenticeship programme, with this year’s intake already signed up – and the company hopes to expand the initiative in coming years. Launched in 2012 and running in conjunction with North Warwickshire & Hinckley College, the three- or four-year programme currently sees four new students per year combining college-based technical training with hands-on experience repairing and maintaining forklifts and other materials