Only need a yard!!! Hmmm that would be cheap! Where would it be?
Would also need a rake of materials, classroom(s), instructors who would, I suspect, want payement for their services, an expensive and detailed H&S policy - covering a plethora of different scenarios, stationary, an office with staff (who might, I suspect, require payement), a website, advertising, gas and electricity, a canteen, toilet and washing facilities, PPE, security, car parking, accreditation from the CITB. Oh, you'll also need to convince hundreds of scaffolding contractors & thousands of construction/power & utility, local and central governments, and pretty much everyone else who employ the use of scaffolding services that it's acually worth taking a risk with, when in their eyes, they have a perfectly good scheme already up and running.
I totally agree with and admire all the lads on here who recognise the need to improve the current training system and are trying to be pro-active in trying to change things for the better.
In my opinion, the best starting point here, after the HSE, would be to try and secure a meeting with one or two of the major construction contractors - Carillion, Bovis Lend Lease, Balfour's etc and basically tell them, as experienced scaffolders/managers/design engineers/labourers, that we think that the current training regime is basically, totally unfit for purpose.
Without the customer on your side, you're nothing.
Good luck.
