Powys Safety Solutions - Training

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Business Training in Wales

Successful businesses require a skilled workforce to realise their growth and profit aspirations. For companies in Wales, assistance for training and development and up to a 70% grant may be available!! More information on business training for Welsh companies

Training

We can assist in staff induction training, as well as health and safety, risk assessment, COSHH and manual handling training (Courses CIEH accredited). We can also arrange quality First Aid training at all levels.

If you need help with:

• Hazard Identification
• Avoidance of Slips & Trips
• Health & Safety Notices
• Legal Matters
• Fire Risk Assessments
• Workplace Health & Safety
• Ladder Safety
• Lifting / Lowering
• Display Screen Regulations
• Noise at work Regulations
• Personal Protective Equipment Regulations (P P E)
• or any other Health & Safety or Environment related topic

Health and Safety Training

We offer a range of health and safety training courses for staff and managers. Complying with health and safety law can often seem a very complicated business. However research has proven that managing health & safety properly saves money. Let us take the worry out of health and safety for you. Upon completion a valid certificate appropriate to the level of training is issued to course participants.

Our essential courses can save lives as well as 'time off sick' expenses.

Powys Safety Solutions can provide accredited training courses for people with responsibility for managing health and safety in your business.

COSHH and Manual Handling Training

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH). Using chemicals or other hazardous substances at work can put people's health at risk. The law requires employers to control exposure to hazardous substances to prevent injury and ill health. You should ensure you have the necessary COSHH training if their is any possibility such substances will be used in your business. COSHH training is essential for many businesses including:

• Farming
• Foundries
• Metal working
• Mechanical workshops and garages
• Electronics industries
• Any industry that uses chemicals for cleaning agents

HSE statistics show that in 2006/07:

• 2.2 million people were suffering from an illness they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work
• 646 000 of these were new cases in the last 12 months
• 2037 people died of mesothelioma (2005), and thousands more from other occupational cancers and lung diseases. Powys Safety Solutions can help you prevent your staff from becoming another statistic

First Aid Training

First Aid Training is essential to ensure your staffing levels and fitness are kept at the optimum levels for minimum cost. Powys Safety Solutions arranges First Aid Training appropriate to your needs. First Aid in the Work Place - The Law The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require that in order to provide first aid to their employees who are injured or become ill at work, employers must have adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel. Regulation 3(2) states that for this purpose a person shall not be suitable unless he has undergone:

• such training and has such qualifications as the Health and Safety Executive may approve for the time being in respect of that case or class of case, and
• such additional training, if any, as may be appropriate in the circumstances of that case