Training officers in the engineering industry

This report is the result of a survey of training officers in the engineering industry undertaken during November and December 1972. At the time of the survey, according to the EITB's grant claim form analysis there were 9000 training officers in the industry, and approximately 6 250 of them were employed in firms with over 250 employees. Just over one half of these were full‐time staff. There is little variation in the distribution of training officers by size of firm. The average is 2.5 per thousand employees with only the smallest size group, that is firms with between 250 and 500 employees, employing more than the average. Eighty‐nine per cent of all firms employing over 250 have at least one training officer. The sector of industry with the largest proportion of training officers, the electronic and electrical goods group, also has the highest number per thousand employees.