Just one blog post for B’s – Bench Saw, in this series of short blogs looking at the A to Z of courses we do.
Bench saws can be covered in many of our different courses, we have a
- Hand Held Equipment course
- Small plant and portable tools course – with NPORS registration
- or our every popular Wood working machinery course.
Why so many? That is because we tailor these courses to suit you.

Course ratios – Bench Saw
The course durations, training and testing ratios are slightly different for each course
Hand held equipment : 1 day for up to 6 delegates
Woodworking machinery : 1 day for up to 6 delegates covering 5 different woodworking tools
Small plant and portable tools : 1 day for up t0 4 candidates, covering 5 different pieces of equipment
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Accreditation
Upon successful completion of the course the candidates will received a Kentra Training ID card (credit card size) detailing the course completed.
We work with the HSE advises for when refresher training is due.
They recommend refresher training every 3 – 5 years, depending on the frequency of the candidates use of the knowledge. For example if the candidate is using the machinery or equipment on a daily or weekly basis they would be able to have a longer time, 5 years before a refresher is required, whereas less frequent users are 3 years.
Training locations
At Kentra we have always provided on-site training, coming to you and delivering the training in your own space. On-site training is available for all the small tools courses.
How we can help
Speaking of help, at Kentra we like to assist our clients with helping to arrange your training needs. We have customers from all walks of life, self employed lone workers to multi national blue chip companies and its a pleasure to talk to you all. If you would like more information about the courses we offer, click HERE for a link to our brochure or please get in touch and let us help you though.
The Kentra Training Team
01606 832 556.

Established Feb 1997 – Proud to be celebrating 25 years delivering quality training.
Our Awarding Body is NPORS


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