Do you have a link to the legislation Jon - I can only find stuff that applies to teaching professionally (i.e getting paid for it)? Maybe we need to check we are complying properly with any law.
Good point John, there may indeed be a difference and your law could be different to ours, I will ask some colleagues for an opinion and if I find anything will let you know.
One of the problems may be that the trainer has to be "competent", usually taken in my industry as having at least 5 years experience on a particular machine. I had pics of a job taken in 1980 as proof of mine!!!! A training qualification would also help competency.
Come to think of it the Scouting organization may be able to help as they would be training in lots of things on a non professional basis.
I would not be happy helping to defend a claim unless the trainer had considerable experience.
Trev, a cert does not mean a whole lot, there are more important pieces of paper involved!!(i.e. to protect the trainer)
Kip, we will shortly be able deliver a course in swimming in dirty old rivers, we have been asked to develop one for people using boats in shallow water. Tree climbing courses we already provide but fireworks are illegal here!!!!
We recently did some work for a company that had an employee on snow clearing at an airport using a tractor and loader. He ran into a parked 737 with the loader. His defence ? he had not been trained properly, nobody had told him open his eyes and look up..................