September 2010 - SQT Training

Six sigma project results

Seventy four people have just received HETAC awards for their recent Six Sigma training. Fifty of those, mostly Level 7 Green Belts, completed in-company projects realising cost savings of an average of €62,000. This is an excellent return on their training investment. Twenty f...

Smart Thinking

With headlines like ‘High fail rates in Leaving Cert science, maths courses‘, (Irish Times morning of the Leaving Cert results), Engineers Ireland have just come up with a good practical idea. They have just announced that they are to offer grinds to higher-level Leav...

Some congratulations

FETAC have four assessment periods – January, May, August and November. As always, we had candidates going through for this assessment period. Congratulations to all those who did very well on the various courses: Implementing HACCP Food Safety Training Skills Design of Ex...

New team member

Welcome to Jean, who has just joined our admin team here at SQT. Jean who hails from Tipperary joined us a little hoarse after last Sunday’s All-Ireland Senior Hurling final. She’s hoarse again though today after the Under-21 win on Saturday. Jean is Kim’s siste...

Which environmental auditing course should I do?

This is a question we frequently get asked here in SQT. We have four Environmental Auditing courses. The first is the: EMS/Internal Environmental Auditor course We then have three IEMA approved auditing training courses: IEMA Approved Foundation Course in Environmental Auditing (...