PLT Training has invested more than £200,000 in a dedicated working-at-height training area and three new instructors, securing PASMA accreditation for aluminium scaffold tower training; the investment builds on last year's £1.25 million relocation to a purpose-built 82,250 sq ft centre of excellence in Oldbury and is expected to generate up to £500,000 in new contracts over the next twelve months.

PLT Training Ltd (Companies House no. 05918541) is a privately owned workplace health and safety training provider founded in 2006 by Nicc Bennett, headquartered in Oldbury, West Midlands, employing approximately 24 people including 17 instructors with estimated annual revenue of approximately £4 million. PLT delivers more than 150 courses from its Oldbury centre and at over 1,500 client locations across the UK, working with clients including Assa Abloy, Arvato SCM, AO Recycling, Williams F1 and Red Bull Racing. PASMA is the UK industry body for mobile access towers whose accreditation is obtained through a full premises audit and panel approval process.

The structural driver is the working-at-height regulatory compliance market. Working at height remains the leading cause of workplace fatalities in the UK, accounting for 40 of the 138 worker deaths recorded by HSE in FY2025. The Work at Height Regulations 2005 require employers to ensure all work at height is properly planned and carried out by competent people. PASMA accreditation is the recognised standard of competence for aluminium scaffold tower assembly and use that satisfies that regulatory requirement.

Achieving PASMA accreditation alongside existing IPAF certification for Mobile Elevated Work Platforms gives PLT Training single-provider coverage of both major regulated categories of working at height, the procurement outcome that multi-trade contractors actively seek to reduce supplier complexity.

The commercial thesis is straightforward: the scaffolding sector employs approximately 240,000 workers in the UK, all of whom require PASMA training for mobile tower assembly and inspection. PLT's existing relationships with Omega Scaffolding, Pro Scaff and Midland Metro give it a direct route into that market without cold-start business development, and the additional three instructors increase throughput capacity to capture volume the previous single-site operation could not accommodate.

For the UK health and safety training sector, PLT's model — a regional provider using accreditation upgrades to move from generalist to specialist coverage of high-compliance markets, is a replicable template for smaller training providers seeking to differentiate on regulatory credibility rather than price.

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