29.10.2007

Hewden takes training award

Hewden, the UK’s largest plant-hire company piped its competitors at the post to secure this years ‘Excellence in Training Award’ from the Hire Association Europe (HAE) awards.

Held this year at the Holland House Hotel, Cardiff on Saturday 13th October, the awards celebrate best practice in all areas of the rental industry.

Hewden received the accolade in recognition of its Movex training programme, introduced to support the roll-out of the company’s £14 million IT system in July this year. As part of the programme, Hewden delivered over 3,500 man days of training, the majority of which were delivered over a seven week period.
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Steve Bird of CITB (L) presents the award to Martin Williams of Hewden

Christine Hardy, UK training and development manager at Finning Group UK said: “The roll out of Project Horizon, our new enterprise resource planning system, presented a real challenge to the whole of the Hewden business over the past year. Developing effective training to support this significant business investment was critical. We actively engaged with over 60 Hewden employees to design and deliver training that enable our workforce to go live with the new system on launch day.”

Martin Williams, Hewden's health and safety manager collected the award on behalf of the company