What's New - First Aid News and Information
November 2009 - How the new HSE First Aid Guidance affects schools
Our website has now been updated with detailed information on first aid for schools including the affects of the new HSE first aid changes:
First Aid for schools
First Aid Needs Assessment for schools - From October 2009
October 2009 - HSE Implement New Guidance on First Aid at Work
The new Health & Safety Executive (HSE) guidance for Employers becomes effective from 1st October 2009. Click here for full information and guidance on the new training regime.
September 2009 - Resuscitation Council (UK) Announce Date for New Guidelines
The Resuscitation Council (UK) have announced the publication date for the next Resuscitation Guidelines - 18th October 2010. ILCOR, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation will meet early in 2010 to agree a worldwide consensus on resuscitation science which will then form the basis of the new guidelines.
The worldwide experts meet every 5 years to formulate the best way of teaching and performing resuscitation, based the latest scientific evidence available. The present guidelines, published in 2005 were phased in over 3 years as first aiders renewed qualifications. The new guidelines will hopefully be phased in over 1 year as annual refresher training is now recommended by the HSE.
June 2009 - Impending HSE First Aid training changes
On the 1st October 2009 the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will release new guidance on first aid to employers. The updated guidance will see the introduction of a new HSE approved 1 day Emergency First Aid at Work course to replace the current Appointed Persons course and a new 3 day First Aid at Work course.
The qualifications of all First Aiders trained under the current system (before October 2009) will remain valid and can be counted in the new first aid needs assessment.
A comprehensive guide to the new changes is available to download using the link below:
HSE First Aid Needs Assessment - From October 2009
May 2009 - Course Dates
Our website has now been updated with course dates for open public course running at all our venues in 2009.
Click here to see scheduled course dates
January 2009 - Price Freeze
We are pleased to announce that we have frozen the prices of our course at 2008 prices! We believe this offers fantastic value to our customers who can benefit from expert instructors at a price significantly below that of our major competitors.
December 2008 - New Fire Safety Training Courses
A key to our success is the fact that we only use highly experienced trainers such as Paramedics to deliver our First Aid courses. Keeping these principles, we now have a range of fire safety courses that will only be delivered by experienced Fire Fighters. New Fire Safety Regulations place the responsibility of Fire Risk Assessment firmly with the employer, including the provision of fire safety awareness training for staff. A range of training options are
available
through large area of the UK - Please ask for more details.
June 2008 - Early Years First Aid Changes As part of the new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) there is a requirement for early year's settings who care for 0 to 5 year olds to have a first aider who has completed a specific course in paediatric first aid (from September 2008). For more information on this please see our Q & A guide using the following link: Paediatric first aid advice for schools
More information on the numbers of first aiders required in schools can be here:
How_many_first_aiders_schools
October 2007 - ISO 9001 Quality System
First On Scene are glad to inform our valued customers that we have successfully implemented an ISO 9001 quality system and have now gained our approval from ISOQAR. We believe that achieving this quality standard will help us to reach new heights of total quality throughout our business.
Find out more about ISO 9001
January 2007- Free Plastic Card certificates
From the start of 2007 all delegates successfully completing any of our first aid courses will now receive a high quality credit card style certificate with first aid guidance printed on the rear. The new credit card certificate will be sent in addition to our standard A4 certificate
and will replace the small laminated card we
previously
issue after some courses.
October 2006 - New Industry Body for Paediatric First Aid
First On Scene's Training Director, Nigel Barraclough has been actively involved in the formation of a new industry body formed to approve and regulate paediatric first aid courses.
Find out more about the Paediatric First Aid Association here
June 2006 - First Aid at Work requalification
The HSE have announced a change to the First Aid at Work requalification process, with regards to the time period that delegates are allowed to attend this course. As was previously the case, requalification should still be taken up to 3 months before the delegates current FAW certificate expires. In addition to this the HSE will now allow a dispensation of 28 days if for any reason someone could not attend a course before their certificate expired. Click here for more information on requalification
April 2006 - New Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Sign
The Resuscitation Council (UK) has
recommended
that a standard sign should be used to indicate the location of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), especially in public places.
Download a copy of the new sign here
November 2005 - New First Aid Guidelines
New guidelines have been issued by the Resuscitation Council UK that includes updated protocols for CPR and chocking. First on Scene will be introducing these changes into all our courses at the start of 2006 including updated course materials.
Find out more about the changes here
October 2005 - HSE Training Changes
The HSE has released a position statement regarding the future of First Aid at Work and Emergency First Aid courses. These recommendations are still being discussed and are unlikely to be introduced until 2008 at the earliest.
Full document available here
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