First Aid

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Where do accidents happen?
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Train for reality Train hard fight easy. Train like it's real. Build muscle memory. The HSE guidance is often miss interpreted. Whilst it says that …
Tim Bradshaw
Tim Bradshaw
Head of Operations
Its bigger than just remembering first aid techniques...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The bigger picture of First Aid... First aid courses have become class room based learning activities rather than learning how to save lives. You …
Fred Sherwood Transport
Monday, May 19, 2025
Basic Life Support - 15' in the air! A big thanks to Fred Sherwood Transport for allowing Sandstone First Aid into their lorry park to teach …
Mike Hope
Mike Hope
Chief First Aid Instructor
Monday, January 20, 2025

I’ll call the ambulance…

The aim of any first aider is to preserve life until professional help arrives. So many times, on first aid courses lip service is paid to calling …

Monday, January 20, 2025

Do you have machinery at work?

Within your workplace do you have forklift trucks, drills or engineering machinery? If so, then your first aid training should take this into …

Monday, January 20, 2025

We need to stop ticking boxes – and staring at PowerPoint!

First Aid at Work training has become a tick box exercise with courses consisting of 8 hours of power point often taking place in a classroom. Whilst …

Monday, January 20, 2025

Basic Life Support

This course should not just be an employee’s responsibility but should be a universal life skill. Recently several incidents which have been …

Monday, January 20, 2025

First Aid at Work (FAW/FTACC)

High-risk workplace environments will deal with more injuries and incidents. As Chief Instructor, the skills I teach are the same as those on the …

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