First Aid Training Courses - Special Offers
To be advised of Special Offers as soon as they arrive, please email us with your contact details. We have a special offer on appointed persons courses during June and July 2008
First Aid Training News
2008 First Rate Training instructors get shocking!
All instructors are now able to offer AED training on the following defibrillators
Cardiac Science Powerheart G3 semi & fully automatic
Defibtech Lifeline
Heartsine Samaritan PAD
Laerdal Heartstart HS 1
Laerdal Heartstart FR2
Laerdal Heartstart FRx
Medtronic CR Plus semi & fully automatic
Schiller Fred Easy
Schiller Fred Easy Port
Welch Allyn AED 10
Zoll AED Plus
2007
The Fire Safety Laws have changed let us take the heat!
First Rate Training are able to provide Fire Risk Assessments to help you comply with the Fire Safety Order legislation that came into force on the 1st of October 2006. Take a look at our fire safety section on this site.
2007
First Aid Instructors Course
First Rate Training are to launch first aid instructor courses in 2007, courses will be delivered in major cities throughout the UK including London, Manchester Cardiff and Birmingham. We will offer franchise opportunities to coincide with this. Please email us if this will interest you.
2006
Things are getting hot for First Rate Training !
First rate training launch fire courses ready for the new legislation that comes into force on the 1st October 2006. We are now able to offer a range of fire related courses to help employers conform to the legislation. To find out more look at our fire training pages or contact us for more information.
2005
First Rate Training get made up!
For those of you who have either attended a first aid course before, or indeed trained or assessed one, how many 'faked' injuries have you ploughed your way through to get some sense of what a real incident would be like ? Exactly. Plenty, we're sure!
First Rate Training have acted upon it’s feedback from all courses and have now, in association with the Graig Campus of Coleg Sir Gār, Llanelli, pioneered a “Direct Applied Make-Up Effects” course for all of trainers and assessors involved within the company.
The aim of this exciting course is to explore the avenues available to trainers and assessors to provide a variety of effects for casualty and trauma by working with direct applied materials.
First Rate Training believe that by giving their courses that ‘something little bit different’ course attendees will benefit greatly from seeing wounds or injuries that they can treat, not just pretending during training and assessment sessions that injuries are present.
Once this course has been completed, articles and photographs will be published online to advise potential course delegates of the type of realism that we are hoping to achieve.
First Rate Training maintains its Health & Safety Executive Centre Status.
Following the Post Approval monitoring visit on the 10th March 2005 by the Training Approval Service Consortium (TASC) and consideration of the Visit Report by the First Aid Approvals and Monitoring Section (FAAMS), First Rate Training have met all required standards set and maintain their Approval number (63/03) from the Health & Safety Executive.
A spokesperson from First Rate Training commented, “ This is really another large milestone for us to encounter and achieve. To our knowledge, there are other companies, of similar stature to ourselves, that due to mal-administration and ineffective in-house monitoring of the services that they provide, are finding it difficult to maintain their Approval status with the HSE. This successful monitoring visit by TASC on behalf of FAAMS proves that the products that we are delivering to our clients, is not only maintained the highest quality, but also improved upon.”
Changes to the Resuscitation Guidelines from the Resuscitation Council UK.
After much deliberation and consultation, the Resuscitation Guidelines may be looking at changing. The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) will publish its new guidelines in the journal Resuscitation in December 2005, and the Resuscitation Council (UK) guidelines will be published shortly afterwards.
Do we know what is afoot? If you read into all the articles from the ILCOR web site here http://www.c2005.org/, please be warned that there are many documents within this site, maybe – just maybe, we may be looking at possible 50 compressions to a couple of inflations?? Who knows?? We’ll all have to wait and see.
First Rate Training will be monitoring the progress of these proposed guidelines and will update you as soon as we know.
2004
HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMISSION RELEASE EVALUATION OF THE HEALTH AND
SAFETY (FIRST AID) REGULATIONS 1981 – PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE
To read this document please click here http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/hsc/meetings/2004/070904/c33.pdf
2003
FIRST AID TRAINING: RETENTION OF SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
by Dr Mark Woods
(proof that 3 years is too long for a First Aid at Work certificate!
HSE BRINGS ACCIDENTS TO BOOK
The Health and Safety Executive have now launched it’s new Accident book. The previous version, produced by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), and other similar books do not comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA). In revising the Accident Book, DWP has passed responsibility for production to HSE.
To read the full editorial from the HSE please click here < http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2003/e03064.htm/
IS FIRST AID EFFECTIVE?
The Health and Safety Executive have published a report prepared by Casella Winton to the effectiveness of First Aid.
A review is timely because in the years since FAW came into force there have been many changes in workplaces and the type and patterns of work that people do. This period has also seen a substantial increase in the number of small businesses. Health and safety regulation is also being modernised and we believe it appropriate to consider whether FAW is still effective in its current form in meeting the first aid needs of modern businesses.
Researchers were asked to focus on the impact of the many changes within the workplace, in medical knowledge related to first aid, in patterns of first aid training and the confusion over the boundaries of “first aid at work”. Their findings have in many cases supported the status quo, but we also explore in this document other options for maintaining and developing the most appropriate first aid at work arrangements.
To read the full editorial from the HSE please click here http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr069.pdf
For the second stage of the review, HSE recently sought more views on the future regulation of first aid at work in the form of a discussion document (DD). The DD created a wide interest because every employer - and self employed person - has a duty to make provision for first aid in their workplace. The consultation period closed on 30 November 2003 and HSE received over 500 comments.
The analysis of the responses to this discussion can be found here
http://www.hse.gov.uk/consult/disdocs/dde21response.pdf
TATTOO - DO NOT RESUSCITATE
An 85 year-old widow is so determined not to be resuscitated
against her will by doctors that she has tattooed the words "Do Not
Resuscitate" across her chest.
Frances Polack, a former nurse, said she paid 25 pounds
($40) for a tattoo with the instruction and a heart with a 'no-go'
sign in red and blue to ensure medical staff knew she did not want
to be revived.
"Years ago when I was nursing I could see they
resuscitated so many people they shouldn't have," Polack told the
Nursing Standard magazine.
"I don't want to die twice. By resuscitating me, they
would be bringing me back from the dead only for me to have to go
through it again," Polack said.
The white-haired pensioner who lives in the New Forest
in the south of England said she visited a local tattooist with a
friend. "I don't know if I want to start a fashion, but I hope I
will start a debate," she said
Date: 07/03/2003 Source: Reuters
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