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.

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

British Heart Foundation is promoting ‘no kissing, just hard CPR’

The British Heart Foundation is urging people to forget “mouth-to-mouth” and to concentrate on chest compressions when performing CPR.  ”Hands-only CPR” has previously been supported by the Resuscitation Council (UK).  But it is now being promoted in a new advertising campaign featuring footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones.  New polling by the BHF suggests many feel worried about the idea of giving the “kiss of life”.

Watch the video click here and register on our new blog for more detailed updates at www.instructorblogs.co.uk  This is nothing new in our training and the course is taught the same and full CPR training must still be trained.

The official position of the BHF is now that anyone who does not have CPR training should ignore the kiss of life in favour of hard and fast compressions in the centre of the chest.   A new poll conducted across the UK and involving 2,000 respondents showed nearly half were put off from performing CPR because of a lack of knowledge.

A fifth worried specifically about the thought of the kiss of life or about contracting an infectious disease.  Four in 10 people were worried about being sued if they did something wrong, even though the BHF argues no such case has ever succeeded in Britain.   ”The kiss of life can often be daunting for untrained bystanders who want to help when someone has collapsed with a cardiac arrest,” said Ellen Mason, senior cardiac nurse at the BHF.

She said the kiss of life remained the “gold standard” of CPR, but added if a person had not had training the best option would be to just do chest compressions.

Bee Gees hit  -  The BHF is also suggesting people hum to the Bee Gees hit Stayin’ Alive, to get the tempo of chest compressions right, although others have in recent months questioned whether this is appropriate, suggesting it may lead to compressions which are too shallow.  The new BHF advert features Vinnie Jones in his traditional hardman guise, administering chest compressions to a Bee Gees backbeat after being thrown an unconscious body by his henchmen.

Commenting on the new campaign, he said: “There really shouldn’t be any messing about when it comes to CPR. If you’re worried about the kiss of life just forget it and push hard and fast in the centre of the chest.

“Hands-only CPR should give have-a-go heroes the confidence to step in and help when somebody is in cardiac arrest.”  Ms Mason said everyone should learn what to do: “Thirty thousand people have a cardiac arrest in the UK every single year and half of those are witnessed, but in most cases no-one acts, no-one knows what to do, people panic.  ”If it was us, we would all want our loved ones and ourselves to be saved, wouldn’t we?”

More information http://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/life-saving-skills/hands-only-cpr.aspx and http://blog.protrainings.eu

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

Want to offer ProTrainings Courses in Fire, Health and Safety and Food Hygiene Awareness?

We have now launched our new classroom courses in the following subjects:

• Health & Safety Awareness
• Fire Safety Awareness
• Food Hygiene Awareness

You can register online by logging in as usual and on the first (home) page you will see the courses listed at £55.00 plus VAT.  These are the instructor upgrade.  You can complete the online course and then have access to the material.  Please then email the certificate to us so you can then start listing and teaching these new courses.

Other courses available in this way are Pet First Aid Instructor and Infection Control Instructor.  These upgrades are only available to approved instructors and the certificates are issued from your instructor dashboard in the usual way at £5 plus VAT each.  We hope that this will help you to be able to offer a wider range of courses to you your customers.

New logos for online courses to add to your sites now match student manual covers

We have changed the logos that you can create from the link/ad generator to bring them in line with the new manual covers for the courses. By adding these links to your sites will enable you to earn from e-learning courses that the links generate.  If you want to expand online sales and need any help please let us know.

Some examples are below and these will automatically change if you have them on your site already.