Free Video Online First Aid Course for Every School Child Site Now Live

Help us spread the word, we have a free video first aid course for every school child. We need to get the out to schools and clubs to sign up for free. See www.studentfirstaid.co.uk and like our Facebook page at Facebook.com/studentfirstaid Schools can sign up and choose online only or we can offer a practical session as well. First aid is a very important skill for all children to learn and completing an online course will expand first aid into schools. If a practical module is needed then we will contact our instructors to complete this part.

It works by the school registering and they get a school dashboard like our instructor or company dashboards. They can either opt for 100% online or blended, which creates a code which starts “SCH” and that relates to a school or class so when entered on the home page the child gets access free to the course.

This is an excellent chance to expand first aid awareness and we welcome anyone who wants to be part of the project. If you know any schools or clubs who want to register ask them to register here or email their details to us.  Please email any ideas to support@protrainings.eu, this is not a normal course that you can set up from your dashboard. If everyone helps to get this free course in to their local schools and clubs it will help the project become a success. Thank you.

HSE Removal of Direct Approvals

There is a lot of information being sent out in relation to the HSE and First Aid at Work.  We have been aware for sometime of the HSE’s intention to cease monitoring and approving First Aid at Work related courses (FAW and EFAW). We have not to date sent out information regarding this matter because nothing has been decided and no formal decisions or information has been sent out to us as an HSE centre by the HSE.

The one fact that is true is that the HSE are stopping direct approval of first aid in the workplace as a result of the Lofthouse report.  This will not affect any of our instructors or centres as a credible certificate will still be required by businesses and our courses will always comply.  The HSE will set out the course material that we at ProTrainings use to then issue the certificates, similar to the way our other certificates work.  Nothing is going to change immediately and there is no need to panic. We have been working on changes for sometime and this is one reason why we made all our courses CPD Certified recently to ensure you have desirable and recognised qualifications for all your courses.

One other thing that seems to be happening is that the onus will be on the employers to ensure that any course they put their staff on is certified and run through a credible organisation (like us) or Ofqual QCF (through us).  We are prepared if these courses do take the Ofqual QCF route or to give you a choice on the type of certificate you want to provide to your customers. Unlike other organisations, our certificates can be validated online so employers can prove they are genuine, we will continue to meet all the guidelines for courses when released.

Remember no decision about the future of First Aid at Work courses has been made yet and we will continue to provide you and your customers with benefits such as free CPD Certified certificate to download, free manuals and downloads, refresher reminders, free advertising for your courses, free online booking, weekly emails and you will still earn on commissions etc.

We are watching this very closely and will let you know when something is decided and the likely date will possibly be as soon as October 2012 but more likely from what we hear April 2013. We will make sure that everything is ready well in plenty of time for the changes.

We have launched a video online Anaphylaxis Awareness course

We have launched an online Anaphylaxis Awareness course at www.proanaphylaxis.co.uk  The course covers the use of Jext, EpiPen and Anapen auto-injectors and comes with free student manual and other downloads as well as the usual other features of our online sites.  You can add affiliate links to this course form your website.

If you want to teach this course you can upgrade as an instructor in the usual way from the home page once logged in.

Free Accident books and other downloads with ProTrainings video online and classroom courses

Not only have we updated our online course websites but we have now added lots of downloads and links on the sites under student downloads (under red button).  This now means that there are many more reasons to buy online course and class courses as they get more. We have also added links to the relevant HSE documents so student can easily access further information on each subject.

Some free downloads available are: Workplace accident book, childcare accident book, child medications consent, personal medical information sheet, pet emergency contacts, home emergency contact sheet, workplace emergency contact sheet. There will be others added soon and if you have any ideas let us know.

RIDDOR’s over-three-day injury reporting requirement has changed and PowerPoints updated

As of 6 April 2012, RIDDOR’s over-three-day injury reporting requirement has changed. The trigger point has increased from over three days’ to over seven days’ incapacitation (not counting the day on which the accident happened).

Incapacitation means that the worker is absent or is unable to do work that they would reasonably be expected to do as part of their normal work.

Employers and others with responsibilities under RIDDOR must still keep a record of all over-three day-injuries – if the employer has to keep an accident book, then this record will be enough.

You must still keep a record of the accident if the worker has been incapacitated for more than three consecutive days. If you are an employer, who must keep an accident book under the Social Security (Claims and Payments) Regulations 1979, that record can be treated as a record for the purposes of RIDDOR.

The deadline by which the over-seven-day injury must be reported has also increased to fifteen days from the day of the accident.  New leaflet available at http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg453.pdf and the EFAW, FAW, FAWR and Manual Handling PowerPoints have been changed and on the dashboard.

You can call the emergency services by text if you are hard of hearing

The emergencySMS service lets deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people in the UK send an SMS text message to the UK 999 service where it will be passed to the police, ambulance, fire rescue, or coastguard.

Simply by sending an SMS message to 999 you can call for help and the emergency services will be able to reply to you. You can register at http://www.emergencysms.org.uk/registering_your_mobile_phone.php

Free business training day Saturday 21st April in Colchester

We will be running a free business training day at our training rooms in Colchester Essex on Saturday 21st April from 9am till about 4pm.  This is aimed at our instructors with centres who want to learn to develop their business and internet presence.  We will also go through getting the most out of our system and marketing online and blended training.

Subjects will include: Social media, your website, using ProCourses, blogs, marketing with our new instructor ratings, online course sales, blended training, benefiting from our new free student first aid program as well as other new courses available and incorporating to your business. By linking with others on the day, you will be able to increase your ratings with the social media side and help to increase your web presence.

You will need to have a laptop with you that you can hook to our wifi, basic internet/computer skills and before you come you will have to set up a few things on the internet by replying to a “to do” list.   If you are interested please email keith@protrainings.eu and we will put your name down.  We are not sure on the interest and will be limited by numbers so we will confirm your space asap. Visit our new blog at www.instructorblogs.co.uk

Jext Auto Injector for Anaphylaxis Treatment

We have adapted all our Anaphylaxis courses to include the new Jext Auto Injector. This auto injector is not a “new version of the epi-pen” it is a different brand and has a lot of benefits over other auto injectors.

• Longer shelf life of 2 years
• Better temperature range allowing for a more stable drug
• Needle cover when activated
• Comes in a case to keep safe
• Simply put on the leg then pushed to fire the unit but could be used the same as an epi-pen if by mistake

If you look at our youtube channel you will find some training videos.  We have added a Anaphylaxis student manual to the course and updated the PowerPoint. You will need a Jext trainer and the Epi-Pen Trainer to show both systems.  The Jext is not available in all area’s yet but this is expanding rapidly across the country so both systems will be available next year and some retraining will be needed.  On completion of the ProTrainings Anaphylaxis course students will receive the free student manual and other features as well as the wall certificate/wallet card.  Jext trainers are available from our online first aid shop.

We will be adding Jext to our online sites in the New Year and adding a Anaphylaxis course online soon.

For more information please email support@protrainings.eu or call 01223 911805

New website to keep you up to date, communicate with each other and allow us to target help to those who want it.

We have launched a new tool to keep you up to date and share ideas by launching a new blog.  The existing ITG blog will still be live but this is a little different. The problem we have is to keep you up to date with changes and ideas but not to keep filling your inbox with emails so we have added www.instructorblogs.co.uk so that you can find news and information and share ideas.

The new blog home page has general news and then there are seperate groups for different subjects, some are closed to people who are that type of instructor like Pet and Moving and Positioning of People.  Join all the groups that will be of interest and we then know who to help in these sectors.  You can comment and ask as well from the groups.

The ProTrainings group will cover all the small changes to our system and you are automatically a member of that group.  If there is a group you want to join but not qualified yet like Pet Instructor email me and i will send you details.

We have added live chat to the site for some questions online.

Added to this the new site has set everyone their own blog.  Now you all have a blog which can be used as a sales website or a good way of communicating with your customers. Having a blog to be part of our site will help you with Google placement and generating leads.

Go to www.instructorblogs.co.uk and log in with your ProTrainings details and start by joining groups and add me as a friend so that I know who is using the site and then we will direct marketing to the right people.

The site is new so you will see more updates so visit it often.  We will still email out other news form time to time and auto email updated from this ITG blog where registered.

Use the blog to ask questions and share ideas as the more ideas you have the more you will sell.  If you are in-house training only the site will be useful as it gives you the latest updates to the ProTrainings sites so you can benefit from the new features.

If you have any problems logging in or would like to become a ProTrainings Instructor please email rather than phone, thank you.

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New design company login page for your online customers and your business

We have re-designed the company corporate login page to improve it’s appearance. This is a page that you can login with rather than going direct to our online sites.  All instructors can have one to allow you to have a link from your site named “customer login” or “student login” and this link to your special page on our site with your logo and contact details.

Your address will be www.OurSiteName.co.uk/corporate/YourCompanyName for example www.profaw.co.uk/corporate/YourName.  From your instructor dashboard click the upload logo section and it will show you the link. Your logo that you have on the certificate will be displayed on the page and if you do not have a logo then all your other contact details will still be there.

If you do not have the address, email us and we can set this up for you.  This feature is ideal when you create a company who buy our online courses as they will have a dedicated page that says their details and even their logo.  You will find this an excellent selling point.  If you need any help with selling online courses or you need the link please email us.