July/August Issue 62 - Flipbook - Page 22
NEWS
TRAINING TODAY TO SEC
INSTITUTE OF VEHICLE
RECOVERY
The IVR set the training standards
for rescue and recovery and are
the Administrators of the National
Highways Sector Scheme 17/17B.
The scheme is focused on industry
best practice and standards for
the industry and uses National
Occupational Standards (NOS) as
the minimum.
Steeped in history, some may
wonder how the Institute began,
why it was formed and what its place
is in the recovery industry today.
From its humble beginnings it was an
Institute with a strong membership
base, with a commitment to
raising
educational
standards
and skills through training and
development as well as maintaining
professional skills and competence
relating to legislative and industry
requirements.
to form the Industry’s Institute,
known today as the Institute of
Vehicle Recovery (IVR).
Tasked with improving training and
safety standards within the industry
the IVR partnered with many
individuals and organisations from
all corners of the industry throughout
the Institute’s history including
recovery vehicle manufacturers,
VROs, trade associations, SURVIVE
and work providers. Underlining its
roots as an industry scheme - by the
industry for the industry.
The Institute of Vehicle Recovery
was formed almost 40 years ago.
For an institute it is relatively in
its infancy, but for the industry of
rescue and recovery it draws on
an unrivalled depth of industry With those early AVRO decisions
experience and knowledge through the IVR has gone on to successfully
countless volunteers.
create an enviable protective training
structure that is industry leading
BORN OF AVRO
and remains fully fit for purpose, still
going strong today.
Before the formation of the IVR in
1983 training within the recovery
IVR TRAINING SERVICES
industry had no formal structure,
it was one industry professional In 1996 the Institute formed IVR
offering his valuable experience to Training Services in order to fill a
another. It was the forward thinking of void in training within the industry.
the then AVRO council that realised It quickly became established
the need to protect technicians as a highly professional training
and the vehicle recovery operators provider, offering training in every
themselves. They formed a steering vehicle category and to the highest
group of professionals within AVRO standard.
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NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL
STANDARDS (NOS)
During the 1990’s the Institute was
invited by the Motor Industry Training
Council to join a committee, which
had been set up to develop National
Occupational Standards (formally
known as ‘NOS’) for the rescue and
recovery industry. The Institute was
invited back again in 2002, this time
by the newly formed skills council,
Automotive Skills, to review and
revise the standards.
Eventually
Automotive
Skills
was taken over by the Institute
of Motoring Industry (IMI) who
caretake the National Occupational
Standards to the current day.
MODULAR TRAINING
Around 2002 the Institute of Vehicle
Recovery met with Automotive
Skills to investigate how training in
the rescue/recovery industry could
be standardised, with the main aim
of raising training standards for the
benefit of all in the industry.
Following negotiations with a
number of industry representatives
