Blueprint Training Solutions, the in-house training division of Scottish security company SecuriGroup, has picked up the top prize in the ‘Security Training’ category of the 2009 BII NITAs, the annual national training awards for the licensed retail industry. BII, the industry’s professional body, announced the winners of these prestigious awards, which recognise and reward training excellence, at its awarding body conference in Coventry.
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The ultimate
recognition of training excellence within the licensed retail industry, the BII
NITAs attract a huge following and entries are received from all sectors of the
industry – restaurant groups, pub companies, breweries, supermarkets,
convenience stores, colleges, training companies and individual licensees.
Blueprint has
engaged a number of ‘return to work’ charities, promoting the BIIAB National
Certificate for Door Supervisors (Scotland) (NCDS) as an opportunity to
transform the futures of their clients. Blueprint has demonstrated a firm
commitment to helping candidates with disabilities and those with complex
barriers to employment. SecuriGroup managing director Russel Kerr said: “We
create the right environment to boost the confidence and self esteem of
candidates who rarely possess formal qualifications. The NCDS is a worthwhile
vocational award and prerequisite for an SIA licence to practice.
The BII NITA
accolade recognises our continued goal of setting and improving standards within
the private security industry. Our staff work hard to develop and deliver
cutting edge security training packages to equip personnel with the skills and
confidence to excel.”
BII Director of
Marketing Sue Medhurst commented: “Each NITA award goes to the entry which
demonstrates training excellence, and the effective use of resources to achieve
measurable results. As with all winning entries, Blueprint Training’s excellent
programme would stand benchmarking outside of the industry and demonstrates good
practice for the licensed retail sector as a whole.”
The NITAs are an
important mechanism to raise the standards of training across the licensed
retail sector and are a tool for companies to benchmark the effectiveness of
their training against others in the sector. All shortlisted entrants receive
feedback from the judges and this enables them to improve their training
offering even further in the future. Judges will now select an overall winner to
receive the 2009 ‘Supreme Award’, which will be announced and presented at the
BII Annual Lunch on Tuesday 11th May 2010.
The ‘Security
Training’ category was sponsored by BIIAB and City & Guilds.
BII Website
Posted by Tracy
Loans
01 March 2010
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