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Course dates 2012

Student called to action during course Student on a FAW course on 30th November was certainly grateful for attending the course that week! Hi, I cannot thank you enough for the first aid course and the practical knowledge you have imparted us. I was not expecting to use my newly learnt skills so soon (and although this happened in a non-work related setting, I still would like to share) Yesterday (Tuesday) evening I picked up my 4.5 year old from the after school club and came back home - he was playing around the living room as usual and then all of a sudden came to me with blood literally pouring from his nose... His dad was panicking a bit but I remembered what you taught us - the 'sit the casualty down, head bent down slightly, hold the soft part of the nose for 10 minutes X 3 - My son was remarkably calm too (probably because I was able to keep calm!) and followed instructions to breathe through the mouth, not to pick/blow his nose! After about 20 minutes, the bleeding did stop but we did take him to the out of hours/paediatric A&E to get him checked out as there was a lot of blood that he had lost and he was a bit quieter than usual! The triage nurse and the A&E doctor commended my calm/quick thinking and the 'head down' position as they said too often they have parents doing the head tilted back position. (They were quite surprised/happy when I mentioned the first aid course which I had just done about 3 hours back!!) I cannot thank you enough! You are a star!

1/12/2011

New First Aid Kits (British Standards) The British Standards have approved a new first aid kit at work (BS8599-1) to bring the contents more in line with current first aid practices. Gone are the days of 26 bandages to one pair of gloves and a first aid kit with nothing but triangular bandages and 6 safety pins left. There is an emphasis on more gloves, more suitable bandages and a common sense approach to employers needs. Every employer needs to carry out their own risk assessment and determine the most suitable first aid kit. As an example, if you work in a kitchen then more plasters would be ideal. If you worked on a building site then more eye wash would be the order of the day. Gymnasiums have a need for ice packs and bandages for sprains... the list goes on. The document explains the changes furthers. Further information

4/7/2011            more

First Aider put skills to the test May 16th 2011: We often get emails sent to us when our students have been called upon to use their first aid skills. Here is one from a delegate who came to us in December 2010 on one of our public courses in Canary Wharf: "Basically, a guy turned up who had allegedly been stabbed (outside of the property). He had climbed the fences to get into our building, allegedly to get away from pursuers. He suddenly appeared in front of me, and I treated him for shock and stopped the bleeding. He was bleeding profusely from the neck and it did look pretty gruesome. It was one week after I had passed as a first aider. The paramedic crew arrived and took over, but I had him “stable” as possible for when they arrived and even remembered the training regarding appointing someone to clear the way for the paramedic crew, and made sure that two separate people were sent to call for the ambulance. I stemmed the flow of the bleeding using the appropriate bandages and it was successful as he had clearly lost quite a bit of blood in the incident. Without the training I wouldn’t have been effective at dealing with an incident like this, or infact remaining so calm and falling back on the training I had received during my first aid course." Student: D Lawrence

16/5/2011

Hero teacher performs CPR at school concert Taken from the Enfield Indedpendent newspaper 29th July 2010 A TEACHER is being hailed a hero for helping save the life an elderly man who stopped breathing during a school concert. Physics teacher Barry Berndes, 50, sprang into action at Latymer School’s end of year Gala on July 14, helping to resuscitate 67-year-old member of the audience after he suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing for ten minutes. The elderly man, who was accompanying the grandparent of a 14-year-old girl who was performing in the concert, had collapsed in a gallery in the school hall after telling his companion he was feeling unwell and was going outside to get some fresh air. With the music of the Pixar film The Incredibles still playing in the background, Mr Berndes, started giving the man CPR. He had returned from a first aid course just six weeks before, and succeeded in starting his breathing for a short time before it stopped again. He said: “Very soon after I found him he was unconscious and not breathing. He was looking quite blue, but I thought well I will do what I have been trained to do. "The paramedics had to shock him three times but apparently he was conscious when I went home at 10.30pm. "Apparently he had come to look after a grandparent who was old and frail and then himself had this massive heart attack. He lives on his own, so I was thinking if he had had the attack there he would probably be dead.” Thanks to the teacher’s efforts, the Haselbury Road School has now bought a defibrillator, which costs about £2,000, and will train ten members of staff to use it in September. About 15 members of staff are already trained in first-aid, while all its Year 9 pupils are sent on a first aid course. Mr Berndes, who has been at the school for 27 years and is also a football referee, said: “I think a lot of public buildings should have them. They are easy to use and can save lives. “People say you are such a hero, but I am just grateful I was in the right place at the right time and knew what to do.” Dave Simpson, managing director of STS Complete Health and Safety, the company which provided Mr Berndes’ training, said: “The man’s life was saved due to good first aid and the fact the ambulance was called so quickly. If a defibrillator can get to an unconscious patient within three minutes the chance of survival goes up to 75 per cent.”

30/7/2010

Ban on taking good samaritans to court GOOD Samaritans who break rules to help save lives could soon be saved from legal action. It is one of 40 recommendations to end the health and safety lunacy that puts professional emergency staff and volunteer helpers at risk of compensation claims. Rescuers who perform first aid or give other help will no longer face personal injury cases if things go wrong. A report by former Tory Trade Secretary Lord Young also recommends a ban on suing police, ambulance and other services if they break health and safety rules during mercy missions. The NHS has paid £8billion compensation in the last five years. Lord Young's review for PM David Cameron follows the case of Jordan Lyon, ten, who drowned in a pond in Wigan. Gtr Manchester, in 2007. Two police community support officers did not dive in because they had not been trained in rescuing people from water. The report also recommends scrapping risk assessment forms for school trips. A Government insider said: "We want to see an extension of personal freedom."

21/9/2010

School First Aid faces sack after Death First aider faces sack after death Sam Linton, 11, from Stockport, Cheshire, died following an asthma attack at school A first aider is facing the sack after a schoolboy died following an asthma attack at school, it has emerged. Eleven-year-old Sam Linton died after having the attack at Offerton High School in Stockport, Cheshire, in December 2007. An inquest into his death ruled that staff, who left him sitting in a corridor struggling to breathe and failed to call an ambulance, "significantly contributed" to his death. Five members of staff were suspended following the inquest in March, and one of these - first aider Deborah Bouckley - now faces dismissal. Her pay was stopped as soon as the decision was made by governors at the school. It is understood she plans to appeal. Three other members of staff have been issued with formal warnings, Stockport Council confirmed. These include Janet Ford, the teacher who was supervising Sam when he became ill, and two student services assistants. The fate of headteacher Evelyn Leslie will be decided in September, a council spokesman said. Sam, of Dalby Grove, Offerton, died following a catalogue of errors when he suffered an asthma attack on December 4 2007. By the time his mother Karen was summoned to the school to take him to hospital his lips were turning blue. The youngster died a few hours later in Stepping Hill Hospital. An inquest heard he was seen wheezing and using his inhaler at school. But staff failed to dial 999 and told him to sit in a corridor. The jury ruled Sam's death was by natural causes but significantly contributed to by neglect on an "individual and systemic level

26/7/2010

First Aid Guidelines First aid guidelines in the UK have been revised and improved over the past few months after extensive scientific reviews. The new guidelines are designed to make simplify First aid procedures and make them more accessible to a wider audience. The current techniques are still effective, but STS First Aid promote the most current techniques to keep us at the forefront of First Aid Training. Changes affect primarily CPR and choking, but there are other aspects that are also developing. Please feel free to contact us with regards to the new protocols and techniques and discuss and questions you may have with regards to the latest First Aid developments. Have you tried the new CPR - What are your thoughts? Email us and let us know Please call us on: 0207 987 1227 or email us on: info@sts-firstaid.co.uk

2/1/2007

	Health and Safety Course We are proud to be able to extend our range of courses to provide the CIEH Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the workplace. This great course will commence from March 2008. Click here for more information - CIEH LEVEL 2 Health and Safety
	23/2/2008

Important changes to First Aid Courses CHANGES IN FIRST AID TRAINING As from 1st October 2009 there are going to be changes to First Aid at Work Training. There will be 2 Courses for First Aiders at Work. 1. FIRST AID AT WORK. Comprehensive Course that covering everything you need to know to be a First Aider in your place of Work, especially if there are many Employees or High Risk areas. This Course, traditionally run over 4 Days or 24 hours, will now require a minimum 18 hours training and will be run over a minimum of 3 Days instead of 4. 2. EMERGENCY FIRST AIDER at WORK Suitable to low risk environments and Companies with few Staff This new Course will last 6 hours (1 Day) and will result in an HSE Approved certificate.

23/7/2009