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

CPD Certified on our online and some classroom courses

All our online courses are now CPD Certified and some of our classroom ones as well.  We have submitted the rest of the courses and will advise when they are approved.  This will mean that the courses can be used against CPD requirements which will expand markets.

Now the very serious bit, do not use the CPD certified logo on any of your material as the copyright for the logo is protected by the CPD Certification Service.  It will shortly appear on our certificates and websites for the courses that they have approved already.   More information to follow on CPD and the rules.

Online training website  register on our new blog at www.instructorblogs.co.uk

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

Manage your own free ProTrainings blog direct from your instructor dashboard

You can now access your own ProTrainings blog direct from your instructor dashboard.  Log in and select ‘Instructor Dashboard” then “Manage Account” then you can select to manage your blog.  From here you can create your own business blog and directly market to the web and increase your social media presence.  You can still access your blog form the main www.instructorblogs.co.uk site where you will find all the latest news from ProTrainings and you can join any group you want to learn more.  Login using your ProTrainings login

Please update your profile to tell us what work you will do and when you are available to do it

Please log in to your instructor dashboard and then click manage account then edit profile.  At the bottom for will see a new section.  Please complete this as soon as possible to help up know who is interested in day rate work, assessing, blended work etc.  Please do not say you are available if you are not.   The questions we need answered on your dashboard include:

Distance you are willing to travel to a student to perform a skill evaluation

Do you want day rate work? YES

Day rate you would work for: £             (£150 is usual rate)

Are you available for assessing? YES
Assessing rate you would charge: £          (£75 is usual rate)

Rate per student for day 2 of blended paediatric: £        (£40 – £65 is usual rate)

Are you available to teach during the week?

Are you available to teach weekends?

Are you available to teach evenings?

Do you or will you have access to manikins?

What is the smallest class size you are willing to teach?

See our new blog at www.instructorblogs.co.uk