Learning at Work Week 2025: 12-18 May

This week is Learning at Work Week 2025 (12-18 May). At HSM, we constantly prioritise our employees’ Continuing Professional Development, and support our staff to undertake whatever training they need for their role, or have an interest in pursuing.

Learning at Work Week is an annual event led nationally by Campaign for Learning. It aims to highlight the importance and benefits of continual learning and development, and build learning cultures in workplaces across the nation.

Employers are invited to mark Learning at Work Week in their organisations, and Campaign for Learning provides the planning resources, activities and ideas to run creative, innovative and inclusive campaigns and events to get everyone involved. 

The 2025 theme is 'Get connected', which highlights the social aspect of lifelong learning at work with three aspects to consider: 

• how we connect people to learning experiences through building motivation and addressing barriers to engagement 
• the importance of our work communities for supporting, inspiring and driving engagement with lifelong learning 
• how through connecting colleagues through learning across the organisation, we can build understanding, skills and knowledge as well as create collaborative cultures

Benefits of taking part in learning at Work Week include changing employees’ attitudes to learning, creating greater awareness of learning opportunities, enhancing employee engagement, discovering internal talent, addressing skills gaps, and valuing and recognising a range of different ways to learn in the workplace.

Our commitment to workplace learning

Continuing Professional Development

We encourage all our staff to approach us with ideas of the types of training they’d like to undertake as a way of keeping our team engaged. At our annual appraisals training is discussed to ensure that employees are given the chance to explore areas of interest and a progression route within the business if the interest is there.

We have many long-standing members of staff who have joined us as apprentices or junior team members, and worked their way up to supervisory or management level. This demonstrates our ability to not only support staff with their ambitions, but also what a great place HSM is to work as staff have a high level of investment and loyalty. 

Health and safety training

We prioritise health and safety in all we do, and this starts with ensuring that our staff get the safety training that they need to undertake their work correctly and safely. We provide extensive training on all equipment that our employees will be using to complete their tasks so that everything is undertaken in line with regulations. 

Our staff are also briefed on the importance of workshop safety, taking the different operational requirements into consideration when moving from area to area. Additionally, we have a trained first-aider in each department to ensure that trained personnel are on-hand should any incidents occur.

Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are a great way to support staff learning, as well as bring new talent into businesses. We have been committed to apprenticeship training for many years, and we have an extensive apprenticeship provision in place.

We currently have four apprentices and two T-Level students on-staff and are always open to taking on more as the need arises. Gracie Williams is doing the 18-month, Level 2 Business Administration Apprenticeship, Kai Rowlands is doing a Level 2 Engineering Operative Apprenticeship, Oliver Berry is an Engineering Technician doing the Machinist Advanced Manufacturing Apprenticeship, and Xavier Cook is a General Welder doing a Welding and Fabrication Apprenticeship, alongside CSWIP Welding Inspection training.

We work with PETA Training  and Chichester College to deliver our apprenticeship programmes. They assist us with the selection process and once an apprentice is in place, they coordinate the programme, delivering the required classroom-based training, alongside our mentoring work and on-the-job training, to get the apprentices successfully through their end point assessments.

Oliver said: “An apprenticeship is a fantastic learning opportunity. To make the most of it you need to be organised and to take the chance to learn as much as possible from the instructors, your learning and development coach and your employer.” 

Find out more about HSM, and get in touch to enquire about apprenticeship / employment opportunities with us.

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