Jeremy Palmer

Profile: Jeremy Palmer - Director, Tutor & Workplace Assessor

Jeremy's (021 528 266) training career started when he joined SME (the School of Military Engineers) as a tutor in 1976. He left the Army in the early 1980's where he established a contracting company that specialised in water reticulation, demolitions - (using both explosive and plant), forestry, general contracting and house construction, employing up to 20 people within the Central North Island. Jeremy then joined a National Consultancy Company (1996) to develop, design, market and implement Health and Safety Systems aligned to ACC's Tertiary level for Workplace Safety Management, Quality Assurance (ISO 9002 – TQS1 systems), Resource Management, H. R. Systems and Emergency Risk Management Systems. In that role he assisted over 120 companies in the lower North Island from the Self Employed and small company's, to Local Bodies, Polytechnics Tertiary Institutes and the corporate sector.

He developed a team of six consultants and was promoted to Central Regional Manager, in that role he his highlights were being called upon as an expert witness and being invited to deliver a presentation to the Contractors Federation National Conference in New Plymouth on Health, Safety and Quality Assurance. While in this role he was approached by many of his contracting clients to develop and provide training to their employees as he had a good rapport within the industry and had become a NZCITO Registered Workplace Assessor.

During 2000 Jeremy approached Land Based Training Limited to see if an arrangement could be made so that he provide civil engineering and health and safety related training, culminating in a joint venture and the Construction Training Wing was formed.

Jeremy tutors and designs our Civil Engineering and Construction training packages, assists and mentors local contracting companies with their training and assessment needs. He is a Transit Level 1 TC and STMS Trainer and since LBT Construction inception in 2000, Jeremy has provided training nationwide to over 20% of the 24,000 people ( Dec 03) that have undergone this training. Jeremy still writes TMP's and provides STMS services for selected Clients and Organisations

During 2002 Jeremy designed and ran our initial 44x week SkillNZ Introduction to Contracting training course in Palmerston North, this course is Government funded and is to assist people into the contracting industry, using work-based training (minimal cost to employers) coupled with formal classroom training and on job assessment.

During 2003 Jeremy designed the Health and Safety Representatives training course, Training Resource and Reference Manual, Multi Media training tool and assessment log. These have both been evaluated and approved by the Employment Relations Education under Section 19G of the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 and the New Zealand ITO for the Health and Safety Representatives Certificate. For all the Construction / Health and Safety training taught indoors we use audio visual teaching tools with take home documentation.

Jeremy is a Registered Workplace Assessor for unit standards, qualifications and National Certificates with InfraTrain (formally NZCITO), the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation BCITO (Health and Safety and Injury Prevention), New Zealand Industry Training Organisation NZITO (Occupational Health and Safety), Extractive (Miniming and Gas Exploration) Industry Training Organisation ExITO (Traffic Management , Road Opening, Trenching), the Electrical Supply Industry Training Organisation ESITO (Traffic Management and Road Opening). In September 2003 Jeremy developed a training and assessment tool based on the revised Unit Standard 1099. as a requirement of this course the students have to design and then physically shore a trench on site.

Jeremy also operates a website design and hosting company (Mynet Ltd) and is responsible for our website.

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