In line with the company’s stated aim of expanding its roots, extending its services to offer all forms of training and skills development, and making a sustainable difference in reducing unemployment – the Dekra Institute of Learning (IOL) has opened a branch in Lephalale (formerly Ellisras), a regional hub just east of the Waterberg coal-mining district in Limpopo.
Members of the DEKRA IOL and DEKRA Industrial management team at the Lephalale branch opening.
Here, there is an urgent need for an accredited provider of skills training programmes, industry-related qualifications, and occupation-focused adult-based education to serve the local coal mining, agricultural, power generation and commercial sectors.
DEKRA IOL Head of Training and Consulting, Christopher Mörsner says, “We are filling this void by offering much-needed QCTO-accredited safety, First Aid and other occupational and skills training.
“DEKRA IOL is the only training provider in this regional centre offering business and operational training with a strongly client-centric approach. This is the right time and place for us to collaborate with and support the local training industry.”
He adds: “The strategic decision to open this branch stems from our commitment to localising our services – and in this way addressing the specific safety and occupational training requirements of the businesses and sectors operating in the town and in the wider region. These include the mining, power generation, renewable energy, agriculture and petrochemical sectors.
“Choosing Lephalale was driven by its status as a regional hub where all these sectors – as well as other commercial businesses – have growing requirements for a QCTO-accredited training provider with a quality approach to adult-based education," he says.
In addition, DEKRA Industrial will be offering its non-destructive testing and inspection services to the same sectors that DEKRA IOL will be serving. “We will be able to develop client relationships from an adult-based education and training – and an NDT and inspection – perspective,” Mörsner says.
For more information visit: https://dekraiol.co.za/
