Trauma & Resuscitation Services LTD have recently joined forces with the Association Of First Aiders to enable us to offer HSE approved First Aid courses to people & organisations across the UK. Our aim is to bring a fresh approach to First Aid at Work training by offering:
- Free, no obligation, straight forward advice on your requirements & obligations
- Price promise to match or beat your existing providers costs
- Quality guarantee to ensure the learners enjoy the experience as much as possible
- Free candidate management tools to make booking courses with us as easy as possible
Contact us on 01925 594 434 or email info@trauma-resus.com to discuss how Trauma Resus can deliver the best possible value first aid training within your organisation.
Your requirements & obligations
As an employer, you have a legal obligation to provide a safe and healthy environment for your staff and members of the public. These obligations are governed by the government agency – The Health & Safety Executive (HSE). The guidelines at this current time (August 2011) state:
- You must appoint somebody competent to be responsible for your health & safety duties.
- This person's duties will include management of:
- The Health & Safety policy for your business
- Risk Assessment relating to hazards in and around your site / premises
- Training of all members of staff in what to do in the event of an emergency
- Equipment available for staff to use to deal with an emergency
- Typically, this person will be a trained first aider with a valid First Aid at Work or Emergency First Aid at Work certificate.
Trauma Resus can help you with all aspects of the health & safety management within your organisation, however we focus on training staff in first aid so they know what to do in the event of a First Aid emergency. The HSE guidelines regarding First Aid state:
- You must have first aid arrangements within your workplace
- You are responsible for making sure that your employees receive immediate attention if they are taken ill or are injured at work
- You must report and keep a record of certain injuries, incidents and cases of work-related disease. This is because of legislation called RIDDOR - Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. Contact us for more information on this, or see the HSE RIDDOR website.
- As a minimum, you must have:
- A suitably stocked first-aid box;
- An appointed person to take charge of first-aid arrangements (typically a trained first aider, as mentioned above)
- Information for all employees giving details of first-aid arrangements.
The key things to take away from these guidelines is that somebody(s) need to be responsible for the health & safety procedures within your organisation, and they need to be suitably trained to do so. That's where we come in! But first, we need to assess how many people need training. This will depend on a number of factors, and we would normally need to have a chat with you about this over the phone, but here are there guidelines:
Suggested numbers of first-aid personnel to be available at all times people are at work
| 1 From your risk assessment, what degree of hazard is associated with your work activities? | 2 How many employees do you have? |
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| Low hazard eg offices, shops, libraries |
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| Higher hazard eg light engineering and assembly work, food processing, warehousing. extensive work with dangerous machinery or sharp instruments, construction, chemical manufacture |
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Please do not hesitate to get in touch to discuss our complex care course in more detail.
Email:
training@trauma-resus.com
Phone:
01925 594434 or 07740 284 402
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