The Health and Safety training courses are designed to assist ALL staff in meeting the requirements of current Health and Safety legislation. Health and Safety training courses can also be adapted to incorporate your companies systems and procedures and is carried out in small groups so that you receive plenty of individual attention, supplemented by course materials.
Other Health and Safety Training courses include:-
AAW - Asbestos Awareness (non-licensed work only)
Course Objectives:-
Who are the courses for?
All levels of staff involved in managing asbestos
Location / Format
1 Day
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FAAW - First Aid at Work Training
Overview: One of your core emergency preparation activities involves making provision for first aid. It is essential to be able to offer a basic level of first aid for both your colleagues and customers. This 3 day initial course is certified, approved and recognised by the HSE.
Who should attend: Those who are designated First Aiders for their companies. A 2-day refresher course is also available for those seeking to renew existing certification.
The course objectives:
- For course members to act safely, promptly and effectively with emergencies at work;
- For course members to be familiar with the types and uses of first aid equipment
- For course members to gain an appreciation the duties of employers and the legal framework
- For course members to be familiar with records keeping and management issues in connection with an emergency
- For course members to recognise the importance of personal hygiene in first aid procedures.
The course aim: To enable students to provide help & give safe, prompt & effective First Aid to a casualty in the workplace following an injury or illness.
The course includes:-
- Emergency response
- CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation)
- The unconscious casualty
- The wounded or bleeding casualty
- Treatment of burns & scalds
- Treatment of injury to bones & joints
- Treatment of shock
- Treatment of eye injuries
- Treatment for poisonings
- Treatment of those overcome by gas or fumes
- Transporting casualties
- Recognition & action for major/minor illness
- Record keeping and information
- Personal hygiene
- Use of First Aid equipment
- Overview of the Health & Safety (First Aid) Regs 1981
Duration: Three days
Venue: In-company or Public Courses
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: FAAW
Optional Follow-up courses: • First Aid at Work Refresher (2 days) • First Aid Appointed Persons (1 day) • Emergency First Aid (1/2 day)
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FAAP - First Aid Appointed Persons Training
Overview: Popular one-day course that supplies the necessary practical and theoretical information to enable delegates to make a first response to an emergency situation.
Who should attend: Those who have been identified or volunteered to be designated First Aiders for their companies
The course aim: To provide delegates with the skills to respond to emergency first aid situations using ‘first help response’ and ‘life preserving help’ techniques.
The course includes:-
- What To Do In An Emergency
- Assessing The Casualty
- Learning your ABC – Airway, Breathing & Circulation
- Contacting Emergency Services
- Rescue Breathes
- The Recovery Position
- Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Adult Basic Life Support
- Choking
- Control of Bleeding
- Burns/Scalds
- Electric Shock
- Broken Bones
- Heart Attack
- Stroke
- Epilepsy
- Diabetes
- Hypothermia
- Asthma
- Anaphylactic Shock
- First Aid Boxes
Duration: One day
Venue: In-company
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: FAAP
Optional Follow-up courses: First Aid at Work (3 days)
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AI - Accident Investigation Training
Overview: If you want your key personnel to take an active role in the investigation of accidents at work then this course has been designed to meet that need.
Who should attend: Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, those with responsibility for the investigation of accidents, near misses and dangerous occurrences.
The course aim: To provide delegates with the skills necessary to carry out investigations into accidents/incidents, accurately report their findings and make recommendations to prevent a recurrence.
The course includes:-
- Principles of accident prevention
- Legal requirements
- Civil liability issues after Woolf
- Different types of accident investigation
- Essential skills of the investigator
- Emergency response
- Information gathering
- Witness interviewing
- Basic accident cause identification
- Fault Tree Analysis
- RIDDOR 95 and Record Keeping
- The role of the Local Enforcing Authority
- Internal accident reporting systems
- Presenting your findings
Duration: One or two days
Venue: In-company
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: AI
Optional Follow-up courses: Risk Assessors • Manual Handling Assessors • IOSH Managing Safely
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MHSA - Manual Handling Skills Awareness Training
Overview: A core requirement for ALL staff to meet the requirements of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
Who should attend: Health & Safety Advisors or support staff, Occupational health staff, Supervisors, key operational staff or anyone who needs to instruct others in Manual Handling/Kinetic handling skills. Those who additionally need to carry out Manual Handling Risk Assessments.
The course aim: To provide delegates with the base knowledge to understand the principles of safe lifting and handling technique, the duties under the Manual Handling Operations Regs 1992. Also to equip delegates with the necessary skills in how to carry out a basic manual handling risk assessment in their workplace.
The course includes:-
- Causes of Manual Handling Injuries
- Manual Handling and Occupational Ill-health
- Basic Anatomy and Physiology
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
- Kinetic Handling – Theory
- Kinetic Handling – Practical Lifting exercises
- Dealing with awkward loads and awkward work areas
- Team lifting • Manual handling aids
- Manual Handling Risk Assessment
- ‘TILE’ Factors in detail
- Risk Control strategies
- Basic ergonomics
- Practical assessment to evaluate learning
Duration: 1/2 day Certification can be "in-house" or CIEH (Chartered Institute of Environmental Health)
Venue: In-company or Public Courses
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: MH
Optional Follow-up courses: Manual Handling Trainer and Assessor • Risk Assessors • DSE Assessors • IOSH Managing Safely
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MHTA - Manual Handling Trainer and Assessor Training
Overview: Recommended for those providing on the job manual handling training for staff. If you are concerned about trainer competency this course will teach commonly accepted knowledge and skills techniques required for your manual handling trainers.
Who should attend: Health & Safety Advisors or support staff, Occupational health staff, Supervisors, key operational staff or anyone who needs to instruct others in Manual Handling/Kinetic handling skills. Those who additionally need to carry out Manual Handling Risk Assessments.
The course aim: To provide delegates with the base knowledge to understand the principles of safe lifting and handling technique, the duties under the Manual Handling Operations Regs 1992 and the ability to train others in kinetic handling techniques. Also to equip delegates with the necessary skills in how to carry out a manual handling risk assessment in their workplace.
The course includes:-
- Manual Handling & Loss Control
- Causes of Manual Handling Injuries
- Manual Handling and Occupational Ill-health
- Basic Anatomy and Physiology
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
- Kinetic Handling – Theory
- Kinetic Handling – Practical Lifting exercises
- Dealing with awkward loads
- Dealing with awkward work areas
- Team lifting • Manual handling aids
- Training & communication skills
- Preparing a manual handling presentation
- Manual Handling Risk Assessment
- ‘TILE’ Factors in detail
- Risk Control strategies
- Basic ergonomics
- Exam & Short presentation to evaluate learning
Duration: 4 days
Venue: In-company or Public Courses
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: MHTA
Optional Follow-up courses: Risk Assessors • DSE Assessors • IOSH Managing Safely
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IOSHMS - IOSH Managing Safely Training
Overview: This IOSH accredited course offers an opportunity for businesses to train their management team to a widely accepted UK standard.
Who should attend: Managers at all levels; those requiring an essential understanding of health & safety management and responsibilities to fulfil their role; those with responsibilities for contractors.
The course aim: To provide delegates with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage the health & safety of others in a modern business. Also, to understand how good safety management can control losses.
The course includes:-
- Principles of 'Loss Control' & accident prevention’?
- Concept of the 'Near Miss'
- Principles of successful Safety Management
- Accident & Near miss reporting
- RIDDOR 1995
- Civil/Criminal law differences as they effect health & safety
- Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Employers & Employees ‘Duties’
- How to find & use safety information
- Powers of Inspectors
- Health & Safety Document
- Risk Assessment
- Permits to Work
- Safety Consultation (committees & forums)
- Specific hazards/risks including Fire, Vehicles, Machinery, COSHH, Electricity
- Monitoring Safety Performance • Safety Inspections
- Safety Auditing
- Examination & Workplace Based Assignment to test knowledge and skills gained leading to IOSH Certification
Duration: Four or five days
Venue: In-company or Public Courses
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: ISOHMS
Optional Follow-up courses: NEBOSH National General Certificate • Contractor Safety Management
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RA - Introduction to Risk Assessment Training
Overview: Designed to meet the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 this course is ideal for those looking to develop competency skills in identifying risks at work and making suitable and sufficient assessments to eliminate or reduce the risk of accidents
Who should attend: Managers and Supervisory staff or any person with the responsibility of carrying out Risk Assessment in the work place
The course aim: To provide delegates with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to identify risks and make provision for effective risk assessments to be carried out within the workplace
The course includes:-
- Legal Requirements
- Employers Responsibility
- Employees responsibility
- What is a Risk Assessment
- Risk / Hazard identification
- Existing controls in place
- Effectiveness of controls
- Identification of effected personnel
- Preventive and protective measures
- Carrying out a Risk Assessment
Duration: One day
Venue: In-company
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: RA
Optional Follow-up courses: Manual Handling Assessors • Other specific assessment course • IOSH Working Safely
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PTPSTS - Supervising Teams Safely Training
Overview: 'Adequate supervision complements the provision of information, instruction and training to ensure that the health and safety policy of an organisation is effectively implemented and developed. Good supervision regimes can form a powerful part of a proper system of management control.' – HS(G)65
Who should attend: Supervisors, Team Leaders, or anyone who has a responsibility to implement workplace and behavioural health and safety standards within groups.
The course aim: To provide course participants with the necessary knowledge and skills to enable safe team leadership in the effective implementation and maintenance of high standards of occupational health and safety.
The course includes:-
- Roles and responsibilities regarding health and safety issues
- How effective supervision can have a powerful effect on safety standards
- Setting a leading personal example
- Causes of accidents and ill-health
- Importance of reporting accidents/hazards/incidents/near misses
- Basic health and safety law
- Company safety management systems
- Company health and safety information sources
- How to carry out a risk assessment
- Workplace hazards and risks and task safety standards
- Emergency preparation
- Action on dangerous task, activity or behaviours
- How to carry out safety inspections/tours
- Means of effective consultation with the team
- Upkeep of notice boards and local information
- How to spot and correct unsafe behaviour
- How to communicate the safety message effectively
Duration: Three days (2-days in-house learning, 1-day for work-based projects)
Venue: In-company
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: PTPSTS
Optional Follow-up courses: IOSH Managing Safely
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SREP - Safety Representatives Training
Overview: A course designed to inform & empower individuals to become safety representatives in order for them to contribute towards an organisations health and safety culture
Who should attend: Delivered on an in-company basis. Suitable for both new and existing health & safety representatives.
The course aim: To develop the knowledge base & skills of delegates to enable them to effectively represent the health & safety interests of colleagues and contribute to the safety culture within the business through the health and safety committee.
The course includes:-
- The role of the safety representative
- Problems with committees
- Legal overview (HaSaW Act 1974)
- Safety Representatives and Safety Committees Regulations 1977
- Health and Safety (Consultation with Employers Regs. 1996)
- Strategies for effective consultation
- Risk Assessment
- Accident Investigation
- Safety Inspections
- Monitoring safety standards and problem solving
- Goal setting for health & safety
Duration: Four or five days
Venue: In-company or Public Courses
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: SREP
Optional Follow-up courses: IOSH Managing Safely
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LSA - Ladder Safety Awareness Training
Overview: Working on any type of ladder/stepladder to do even the most simple of tasks can be hazardous. This course helps identify typical hazards, looks at essential care and maintenance checks as well as pre-use checks and also the general safe use of typical types of ladder
Who should attend: Those people who are involved or could be involved with the use of ladders (including step ladders) as part of their work routine.
The course aim: To introduce delegates to the hazards of using ladders / stepladders in the workplace and the safe precautions to be taken when using such work equipment
The course includes:-
- Identify Hazards
- Typical accidents
- Reasons why people fall from ladders/stepladders
- Type of work requiring the use of ladders
- Pre-Use Checks
- How to identify ladders / stepladders
- Positioning of all types of ladders/stepladders
- Safe Use of All Types of Ladder - General safety rules - Leaning ladders - Stepladders
Duration: 1/2 day
Venue: In-company
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: LSA
Optional Follow-up courses: Risk Assessors • Manual Handling Assessors • IOSH Working Safely
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FAW - Fire Awarness Training
Overview: Managing fire safety issues is an essential part of virtually all business nowadays, so this ½ or 1 day programme is one of those core items on your list of regular training needs. Whether it’s a new Fire Awareness or a refresher that is required for existing staff this course will fit the bill. Can be adapted to incorporate your companies systems and procedures and includes an introduction to the use of fire extinguishers.
Who should attend: All Managers, Supervisors and staff as part of your company mandatory training programme.
The course aim: To provide delegates with the knowledge and skills to enable those to grasp the essentials and understanding of the causes of fire and it’s outcomes. In particular to enable them to respond promptly and positively in the event of a suspected or actual fire and facilitate the safe evacuation of a premise.
The course includes:-
- Fire Triangle
- Causes of Fire
- How fire spreads
- Fire hazards
- Classes of fire
- Fire extinguishing principles
- Portable fire extinguishers
- Practical use of fire extinguishers (where possible)
- Fire action procedures
- Assembly points & role call
Duration: 1/2 or one day
Venue: In-company
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: FAW
Optional Follow-up courses: Fire Risk Assessors • First Aid at Work • Emergency First Aid
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FMS - Fire Marshall Skills Training
Overview: Managing fire safety issues is an essential part of virtually all business nowadays, so this ½ or 1 day programme is one of those core items on your list of regular training needs. Whether it’s a new Fire Marshall or a refresher that is required for existing staff this practical course will fit the bill. Can be adapted to incorporate your companies systems and procedures.
Who should attend: Supervisory staff, nominated emergency response personnel or anyone who needs an appreciation of the role of the Fire Marshall.
The course aim: To provide delegates with the knowledge and skills to enable them to fulfil the role of a company Fire Marshall. In particular to enable them to respond promptly and positively in the event of a suspected or actual fire and facilitate the safe evacuation of a premise.
The course includes:-
- The role of the Fire Marshall
- Fire Triangle
- Causes of Fire
- How fire spreads
- Fire hazards
- Classes of fire
- Fire extinguishing principles
- Portable fire extinguishers
- Practical use of fire extinguishers
- Fire action procedures
- Assembly points & role call
Duration: Four or five days
Venue: In-company or Public Courses
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: FMS
Optional Follow-up courses: Fire Risk Assessors • First Aid at Work • Emergency First Aid
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DSEA - Display Screen Equipment Assessors Training
Overview: Designed to meet the requirements of the Health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations 1992 this course is ideal for those looking to develop competency skills in workstation and daily work routine assessments.
Who should attend: Health & Safety Advisors, Safety support staff, Key Office staff with safety responsibilities or anybody who intends to get involved in display screen assessment in the workplace.
The course aim: To provide delegates with the necessary skills needed to identify health risks associated with display screen equipment assess those risks and recommend risk management solutions.
The course includes:-
- The causes, effects and costs of DSE ill health
- Health risks associated with Display Screen Equipment
- Visual disorders
- Postural problems • RSIs/WRULDs
- Job Stress
- Other health hazards
- The Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regs. 1992
- Display Screen Assessment requirements
- Assessment in practice
- Setting good standards
- Solving DSE problems
- Ergonomics
- The role of management
- Laptop workers
- Homeworking and Hot Desking
- Recording and reviewing
- Evaluation and Workplace Based DSE Assessment
Duration: One day
Venue: In-company
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: DSEA
Optional Follow-up courses: Risk Assessors • Manual Handling Assessors • Other specific assessment course • IOSH Working Safely
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Chap8 - Chapter 8 of Traffic Signs Regulations Training
Covering Traffic Safety Measures and Signs for Road Works and Temporary Situations - Design and Operation. Please contact us for more information on this course.
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Hand Arm Vibration Course Training
The Health and Safety Executive are continuing to apply pressure to ensure that adequate and proper information on Hand Arm Vibration Levels is available for users, and this includes training. One day course.
Course Content:-
- The risk of Hand Arm Vibration injury
- Management of the Risk
- Recommended measures to reduce Hand Arm Vibration Levels
- Recognition of the early symptoms of Hand Arm Vibration
- PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)
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Legionella Awareness Training
Course Objectives:-
- The Risk Assessor
- Legionella - Origins and Microbiology
- Relevant Legislation
- General Risk Assessment Theory
- Video Presentation
- Specific Risk Assessment
- Use of Plans and Schematics
Who are the course for?
Delegates will achieve a good working knowledge and an understanding of problems related to the control of Legionella in water systems based on the requirements of relevant legislation including the approved code of practice (L8 ACOP). This course will also identify health risks and the methods used to identify and control Legionella in hot and cold water systems.
Duration / Format
1 Day
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CLVT59Z - Food Hygiene Training
Overview: The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 (and Regulation EC No 852/2004 on hygiene of foodstuffs) require a food operator to make sure that any staff who handle food are supervised and instructed and/or trained in food hygiene in a way that is appropriate for the work they do.
Who should attend: Those food handlers who prepare open, high-risk foods should have formal training
The course aim: To provide food hygiene knowledge to all food handlers
The course includes:-
- Bacteriology
- Food poisoning
- Prevention of food contamination and food poisoning
- Personal Hygiene
- Cleaning and disinfection
- Premises, equipment and pest control
- Legislation
Duration: One day (roughly 6 hours)
Max Number of People: 12
Venue: Courses are held at PTP Training in Haverfordwest. If you have any staff needing a Food Hygiene Certificate, please telephone us to book.
Cost: Please Contact us for Details
Course Reference: CLVT59Z
Optional Follow-up courses: Please ask for more information