What’s This About

All three day first aid at work courses are certified by the Health & Safety Executive. This is the gold standard first aid course within the UK and as a result of this it carries the strictest assessment criteria. All candidates...

What Happens?

All candidates who enrol on our open and in-house Paediatric First Aid training (12 Hour) courses are required to complete an in-formal assessment. The aim of the assessment is to allow the candidates the opportunity to demonstrate that...

What Does This Mean?

Train Aid are pleased to announce that we will now be offering free Anaphylactic Shock training on all of our open paediatric first aid courses. This is usually run as a separate course, but we feel that it can easily be integrated...

What’s This All About?

Train Aid is able to provide its open course candidates with a paediatric first aid certificate on the same day that the training takes place. The open courses are held over two Saturdays, which in total make up the 12 hours...

What Does This Mean

Train Aid’s Paediatric first aid courses have been approved by Kent County Council. This means that our training courses meet their desired expectations, which subsequently falls them in line with both Ofsted’s and the Early...

Unconscious Casualties

One of the biggest elements to first aid at work training is preparing candidates to deal with unconscious casualties. It is extremely common to come across someone who has been knocked unconscious, or has drifted into this...

Background

The vast majority of Train Aid’s first aid at work courses include a CPR teamwork exercise. All candidates lean how to administer CPR by following the instructor’s demonstration, and then by having a practice themselves.

However it...

Instructor Bill was sent out to the Kingdom of Bahrain to host four one day Emergency first aid at work courses. You can receive the lowdown on what happened by following the diary entries from each days training:

http://www.train-aid.co.uk/blog/first-aid-training-in-bahrain-day-1...

Brief Background

An electric shock on the body can potentially be fatal, as it can interfere with the hearts rhythm and may even shut it down.

Other complications can include nasty burns, which will often require prompt first aid treatment. Children...

Background

The first aid training course industry has been regulated over the past 30 years through the HSE approval Scheme. This ensured that those who wanted to work in the industry had to ensure that their courses met a certain standard. This was...

The Final Day

Everyone who has been following us so far will know that instructor Bill was sent out to the Middle East to deliver a series of first aid at work courses. His base would be Manama, where he would deliver a series of training courses...

The Day Itself

By the time we got to day three things were very much in full flow. Instructor Bill had settled into his surroundings. Hopefully he will be able to fit a bit of sightseeing in around all this training. So look out for some tourist snaps...

The Day

If you have been reading the blog you will know that instructor Bill has been sent out to the Kingdom of Bahrain in order to host a series of Emergency First Aid at Work Courses. The kingdom of Bahrain is really starting to embrace first aid...

Introduction

Train Aid was recently contacted by the Dynamic Training Institute, which provides a wide range of practically relevant courses within the Kingdom of Bahrain (Middle East). They enquired about the prospect of us coming over to teach their...

What Would This Involve

Train Aid will always endeavour to tailor a course around the specific needs of a business. We understand that many companies don’t fit the traditional 9-5 model, and require bespoke courses, which need to be tailored around...

What Does This Mean?

Traditionally training courses run throughout the day, quite typically starting at 9AM and finishing at 5PM. This is great for all those who work in the daytime, but what about the network of night workers that operate throughout...

The Lowdown

Here with our PTLLS coordinator Tom in a real life interview. He was on hand to tell us all about the world of Petals and how it can benefit anyone who is looking for a change of career or who needs to link their experience within a field...

Big Year!

Train Aid has got a big year planned, which will hopefully bring new & exciting courses in more locations. We are looking to take our unique approach to training to a wide variety of towns and cities. We will promise to keep courses...

The Course Itself

The first aid at work refresher course is aimed at those who have previously completed the full three day qualification, and who need to requalify themselves. Candidates can expect to refresh their current skills over a two day period,...

What Is It?

The accident book is designed to keep a record of any accident / illness that has occurred within the workplace. It should contain all the details that were associated with the situation, and is typically stored in a safe location, owing...