Mark One Training prides itself on providing five star training at our training centres across Essex run by a training team with over 80 combined years experience in the training industry.
Mark One Training started as a need to train our own staff in our parent businesses that provides powered access hire and tool hire. Starting off with one trainer we soon expanded to provide training to every type of business and now we have a team of trainers who can provide accredited training across a number of courses including IPAF, PASMA, First Aid, Forklift, Health and Safety and more.
We are happy to provide on-site training across the United Kingdom and we are happy to discuss any bespoke training requests to help with any training requirements that you may have.
Our friendly and knowledgeable training team are here to make your experience with Mark One Training comfortable, informative and easy. They will be on hand to answer any questions that you may have about our training courses.
Simon Old
Simon has worked at Mark One for over 12 years, originally as a driver, before moving into the training side of the business. He enjoys helping people of all abilities to achieve their goals and is a very patient and approachable instructor.
LES SALMON
Les comes from a plant and construction background and has worked for Mark One since 2008. He has an extensive list of courses that he can cover.
MATT HEADLAM
Matt joined Mark One in 2016, he comes from a Hire background where he used to hire a variety of access equipment to customers, before moving over to Training. He enjoy’ s teaching delegates from different industries and backgrounds and hearing their own experiences in the workplace.
STEVE JONES
Steve started working for Mark One in 2005. After 3 years he trained to become an instructor. Steve finds it very rewarding when training delegates who are inexperienced or nervous and they achieve the level required. He, also, enjoys learning information from delegates when they share experiences relevant to the subject being taught.
RICHARD THORNTON
Joined Mark one Hire in 2015, Richard comes from a car sales background & previously had the role of Plant Manager at Mark One for 5 years. Enjoys the challenge of meeting a new set of delegates each day & help them to understand a new course.
WENDY TIPPER
Wendy joined the Team in May 2015 to help cover the additional workload within our Training Department, before progressing on to her current position.
Samantha Rawlinson
Joined the team in July 2021 to help cover the additional workload within our Training Department.
Kyly Ballinger
Joined the team in July 2022 to help cover the additional workload within our Training Department.
Explore our wide range of courses and book online with our simple and easy to use booking system. If you need a course run on-site or would like us to run a bespoke course then contact our friendly training team who will be more than happy to help.
Don’t just take our word for it, see what our clients have said about their experience whilst training with Mark One.
"Great environment, well qualified instructors, I will 100% recommend the training centres to anyone. During this hard time they put everything in places to make the training centre safe and tidy and well sanitised. Each candidate’s temperature was taken before the training. Everything was absolutely spot on."
"I will recommend anybody to go to MARKONE Training. I did health and safety course. To be honest I had dificulty to spell, but Simon Old was very patient and helpful. I am very grateful. Thank you Mark 1 Training team!"
"The training sesions were proffesionally delivered in a comfortable environment. The instructor was very professional and welcoming. A really nice experience overall. I'd highly recommend it to anyone!"
"I have a lot of training centres close to home, some just a few minutes from my house, despite this I'm more than happy to travel for over an hour from Kent to Southend to do my training with them as I feel the service you get from Mark One is second to none!"
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