TESTIMONIALS

IVES Training Group has been instrumental in helping Sockeye Enterprises reach a number of our safety and QAQC goals through the comprehensive, high-quality training they provide for our employees. The quality of instruction is high, and our employees return to work with the skills, experience and understanding of the machines that allows them to work safely and efficiently.

Georgia | Training Administrator | Sockeye Enterprises Inc

IVES Training Group has been instrumental in helping Sockeye Enterprises reach a number of our safety and QAQC goals through the comprehensive, high-quality training they provide for our employees. We have used IVES to bring our employee operator certification levels up to 96% of our final goal of 100% certification of all of eligible field employees. We have also sent employees to train the trainer sessions so that we can offer our own courses in remote locations and in our small town from where most of our employees live in the off season. The quality of instruction is high, and our employees return to work with the skills, experience and understanding of the machines that allows them to work safely and efficiently. Congratulations on 35 years in the industry, we will continue to rely on IVES as our company expands.

- Georgia | Training Administrator | Sockeye Enterprises Inc

Close

Read More

Prior to beginning our relationship with IVES, we had a disjointed equipment training program. We are at a better, safer place than we were at before IVES. We are starting to see our contractors also pick up the challenge and getting their trainers certified as IVES Trainers.

Trang | EHS Supervisor | Sims Recycling Solution

Prior to beginning our relationship with IVES, we had a disjointed equipment training program. For the forklifts we showed a video and had the employee drive the lift back and forth. Training on aerial lifts was similar or not at all – video and drive. There was no skid-steer training. We experienced multiple incidents related to equipment usage. Contractors were using our company owned equipment as well as equipment we rented for them. We did not verify that their personnel were knowledgeable. We had numerous incidents with equipment being damaged or personnel having to crawl down booms to escape from elevated platforms. We had vendors performing annual inspections on equipment, placing a certifying sticker and then finding so many safety related items on the lift that it had to be taken out of service. We started slowly training a core group of instructors in the IVES system. This first created awareness within a larger group of company employees that resulted in establishing a relationship with a knowledgeable vendor that could conduct correct annual inspections. We established comprehensive classroom training with a knowledge verification method, next came a comprehensive system to verify the operators could perform. We are spread across three geographical areas and the verification effort is the same at all three areas. We upgraded our equipment inspection efforts and now have employees conducting regular documented inspections and vendors keeping our equipment in top condition. Ives has given us a consistent, comprehensive and verifiable training program for our equipment operators. Along with education comes awareness and that helps create safer operators, less incidents, less damage. The journey has taken us two years and at times it was painful – it wasn't easy. We are at a better, safer place than we were at before IVES. We are starting to see our contractors also pick up the challenge and getting their trainers certified as IVES Trainers.

- Trang | EHS Supervisor | Sims Recycling Solution

Close

Read More