Lehtipiste strengthened its employees’ safety skills with flexible Occupational Safety Card training
Lehtipiste arranged Occupational Safety Card training for its employees in both Finnish and English through Trainify’s Työturvakortit.fi service. The partnership highlighted flexible training arrangements, helpful customer service and open dialogue that helps us continue improving our service.
Lehtipiste is a diversified group best known for distributing newspapers, magazines and other publications. Its operations also encompass a wide range of logistics services, including Pakettipiste’s parcel locker and transport network. The company is undergoing a significant change: Lehtipiste Group’s new, modern terminal in Tuusula is scheduled for completion in autumn 2026.
The new terminal, covering approximately 14,500 square metres, will meet the growing needs of the logistics business, enabling greater automation, more efficient processes and increased capacity. Around 80 people will initially work at the terminal, with staff numbers expected to grow alongside the business.
For this article, we interviewed Jere Haapasalo, Logistics Specialist at Lehtipiste, about choosing a training provider, employee feedback and the registration process.
Occupational Safety Card training in Finnish and English
Lehtipiste needed Occupational Safety Card training for both Finnish-speaking and English-speaking employees. Through Trainify’s Työturvakortit.fi service, employees could flexibly join scheduled public courses in either language.
According to Haapasalo, the need for training arose during the construction of the new logistics centre. A key factor in choosing a provider was the ability to fit the training around employees’ schedules.
“Construction industry regulations meant that our staff needed Occupational Safety Cards to carry out automation and system testing while the new logistics centre was still under construction. I was looking for a suitable training provider for our organisation and noticed that Trainify offered a course that didn’t require participants to set aside a full day in one go. Instead, they could fit part of the training around their own schedules,” Haapasalo explains.
Our Occupational Safety Card course follows a blended learning model. Participants first complete half of the training independently in the Trainify learning app, then attend a live webinar led by an instructor. The course concludes with the official Occupational Safety Card test.
This format makes it easier to fit training around work and everyday commitments. Participants can complete the independent study section at a convenient time before the webinar, so there is no need to set aside an entire uninterrupted working day.
Employees who have completed the training have also praised its flexibility.
“Participants have praised the format because their schedules are extremely busy with planning the logistics centre,” Haapasalo says.
Training vouchers make employee registration more flexible
Lehtipiste received training voucher codes for some of its courses, allowing employees to register for public courses that suited their schedules. Employees whose training dates had already been agreed could be registered conveniently through customer service.
Haapasalo says that finding suitable course dates and using the individual registration codes was straightforward.
“Registering for the courses has worked really well. It was easy to find suitable dates on the website, and the registration codes provided individually to each participant made registration and payment simple,” Haapasalo explains.
Training vouchers are particularly useful for companies that do not yet know the exact number of participants or training dates when placing an order. A company can purchase training in advance, and participants can use their codes later to register for a course that suits them.
This removes the need to place a separate order for each participant and allows companies to respond flexibly to staff training needs.
Customer feedback helps us improve our service
During the collaboration, Lehtipiste also provided valuable feedback on the registration process. They pointed out that the instructions on our website for registering with a voucher code could be clearer.
This feedback gave us useful insight into the registration process from the customer’s perspective. We took it on board and have already improved our website and registration instructions accordingly.
For us, a successful partnership means more than arranging the training our customers need. We also want to listen to their experiences and identify ways to make our service even easier to use.
Lehtipiste’s feedback is a good example: a small, practical observation can help improve the experience for all our future business customers.
Flexible Occupational Safety Card training for businesses
Our collaboration with Lehtipiste shows how training can accommodate employees who speak different languages and need to complete their courses at different times.
Courses in Finnish and English, training vouchers and customer service support helped make Occupational Safety Card training a seamless part of the company’s day-to-day operations.
Haapasalo also recommends Trainify’s courses to other companies, highlighting the flexibility of studying in the app and the ease of payment.
“I recommend Trainify’s courses to businesses. Completing part of the training in the app makes it much easier to fit the course around your own schedule. The registration codes also make paying for training very easy and straightforward for the company,” Haapasalo says.
For us, a successful partnership is above all about making training as easy as possible for the customer to arrange. We also welcome feedback so that we can continue improving our service.
Lehtipiste is a diversified group owned by Tradeka-Yhtiöt Oy. The group comprises assortment management and distribution company Lehtipiste, Pakettipiste’s parcel locker and transport network, greeting card and toy company Suomen Korttipiste Oy, and greeting card and art supplies wholesaler and importer Putinki Art Oy. Lehtipiste Group has a turnover of EUR 100 million and employs approximately 250 people, including its subsidiaries.
