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Gaining a Passport to Work - with White Light
White Light's popular Training Initiative training and education scheme, now in its ninth year, has a wide range of training courses on offer through the spring and summer, including courses on a wide variety of popular lighting control systems, in using and operating automated lighting and - new for the year - ‘Passport' health and safety training, part of the Safety Passport scheme organised by the Safety Pass Alliance in association with the Production Services Association (PSA).
The Passport training is a one day course run for White Light by Chris Luscombe, a well-known production electrician now also working as a health-and-safety trainer and so able to teach the course with a considerable amount of ‘real-world' experience. The course is divided into six modules covering: organising for safety, workplace safety, plant and machinery, noise and health, procedures (including risk assessments) and the environment. The day concludes with a test; passing the test means that you receive a Safety Pass Alliance Passport, a qualification recognised by entertainment industry employers who will, increasingly, demand proof-of-knowledge of this type. The course, which is also being taken by White Light's own staff, is available to anyone interested at a cost of £110. Courses are currently scheduled for April 17th, May 7th and June 18th, held at White Light's base in Wimbledon, south-west London. Further information about the Passport scheme can be found at the Safety Pass Alliance website, www.safetypassports.co.uk.
The Passport courses sit alongside other long-established and popular courses, those currently scheduled including lighting consoles (Whole Hog 2 on 1st May, Zero88 LeapFrog on 13th May, grandMA on May 21st and 22nd, grandMA level 2 on 4th & 5th of June, Strand Palette on 11th and 12th June, Strand 500-series on June 19th-20th and 23rd-24th); moving lights; pyrotechnics; rigging and software.
Further information about the courses, and up-to-date course schedules, can be found at the White Light website, www.whitelight.ltd.uk/training. All of White Light's training courses can now be booked on-line, through White Light‘s on-line lighting shop, www.lxstore.com; BECTU members can receive a 20% discount when booking on-line in this way.
White Light has been supplying equipment and solutions to the entertainment lighting industry since 1971. Its Training Initiative training scheme has been providing training courses, student workshops, schools masterclasses and other information aimed at keeping those working in the industry up-to-date with the latest technology since 1999. Further information about the products and services offered by the company, including lighting hire, sales, installation and service, can be found at the White Light website, http://www.whitelight.ltd.uk.
10th April 2008
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