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Really interesting course with alistair furminger on the confined space course

Charismatic and enthusiastic instructor made it engaging. All the practical was the highlight.

Although too many information to absorb. Very vital information for working in construction sites

Had John Davies for an SSSTS course and he was great!

John Davies was very patient throughout the course - he answered all of our questions and was very knowledgeable. The breakout rooms especially were really useful in breaking-up the day and keeping us focused and thinking!

Very competent and knowledgeable instructor kept everyone engaged. Covered a lot of material in a short time - efficient transfer of knowledge.

Al the tutor was superb, the course was nice mix of theory and practical. But the actual location of the course could have been improved a lot, barely any phone signal and a dated outbuilding for one day of the course.

The instructor al firming we was top notch he made it interesting and was very knowledgeable, the course was made to run smoothly and efficiently. Top banter

All good clear and concise training for confined spaces training city & guilds

Al Furminger - Confined space
One of the best trainers I think I’ve ever had. Great knowledge, experience and banter. Highly recommend!

Al Firminger was brilliant made the course Easton understand and fun.

Al was an excellent trainer and really helped during the session. Highly recommended course

Overhead training with Anth very interesting and informative

Stephen gormey great lecturer

If you are a contractor who feels that you have too much money and too much time, try HSS Training. Their customer service oozes no qualms about wasting contractors' money and time. And they'll treat you like a chump too, for free!

30% price mark up for the priviledge of losing x2 days work for x3 men.

Edit: HSS Training does NOT provide Spanset training. They are just a middleman. Go straight to the provider, eg. Spanset.

Edit2: Now we have booked the same course through Spanset directly, we can see that you are supposed to get an overview email before the course, giving useful info like: Required arrival time; full PPE required; only vending machines available, no canteen, so bring lunch. Of course HSS Training FAILED to provide our delegates with this useful info. More evidence that they just don't care about the service they provide.

1) They refused to refund a 50% booking fee penalty of £140 (penalised because we moved the date for one delegate), although they then cancelled the booking for the same day for x3 delegates, with less than 24hours notice.

2) They did give us a discount code for the day they cancelled, after I hassled them for some recognition of the money lost and illogical penalty fee. However, HSS Training wouldn't give us any details about what discount the code could be used for - what courses, what limitations - like how long it was valid for.

3) I chased a confirmation of a booking for x3 delegates, as by now I was concerned about dealing with this company. Confirmation received. So a few days later our delegates arrive at the training site. They were turned away. HSS Training had failed to put their names on the list.

4) Spanset - the real training company - are not happy with them either. Imagine the embarrassment for Spanset that they've had to turn away so many contractors, who have taken the day off esp to attend a Spanset course.. but HSS Training REPEATEDLY fails to pass on names and monies!

NOTE: If monies had been passed on, the booking would be in place. So when Spanset say our payment was not passed on - it was NOT passed on. Ours was not the first time either.

5) I alert HSS Training on the day of the refusal of entry for our delegates. No apology, no reply. I email a full breakdown of our loss and requirement for a refund. No apology, no reply. I call the next day - Ricky comes to the phone eventually - condescendingly 'What seems to be the problem here?'

The problem was that we were racking up £1000's losses losing days of work for x3 men + the cost of an over-priced Spanset course for x3 delegates.

We did get a refund for the course. I will never use HSS Training again.

Ricky was mystified - how this could happen? Couldn't be HSS Training. Like it's never happened before. Strange that Spanset reps - who are at the training site - have a different story from HSS Training - who are nowhere to be seen at the training site.

Don't expect HSS Training to rectify a problem they can't see.

Edit: HSS Training does NOT provide Spanset training. They are just a middleman. Go straight to the provider, eg. Spanset.

(Just seen the way the travesty of a 'Customer Service manager' is telling me how I'm allowed to complain and that I am not allowed to pinpoint who abused our time and money... these people make me sick.)

Over head gantry crane.
Anth was great he delivered the training in a clear and professional manner and made a boring subject matter interesting and informative.

I had the overhead crane training with Anth, good course, vonvayed well.

The whole training experience was amazing, it wasn't your average classroom boring learning, this training day was enjoyable and fun, Steve Smith our trainer was fantastic and very funny which kept us awake and interested in actually learning the course.

I 100% loved this course and will definitely be booking again because of Steve. Thank you for keeping our spirits up and giving us a fun day of learning.

paul did a great job at the 18th edition course couldnt of been anymore help

Absolutely happy.. Good staff