Powys Safety Solutions - Training
Training
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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
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!!
We can arrange for a Human Resource Development (HRD) advisor working under the ‘Workforce Development Programme’ who check your eligibility and work with your company FREE OF CHARGE to:
- review your strategy
- identify training and development needs
- develop an organisational development plan
- produce an agreed learning plan
- help you to find training organisations and source the right courses
- support your business towards the Investors in People award
- access discretionary funding - normally £1000, 70% of training costs (there are exceptions)
First Timers: For businesses new to training
Yours is a smaller business, with less than 20 employees, and you’ve never used staff training except to satisfy legal requirements. But it’s competitive out there, and you’re realising that you need to get more out of your staff through training. Think it’s going to be expensive and time consuming? Think again! Find out how we can help with expert advice and subsidised training.
Fast Trackers: For businesses who want to get better at training
Despite being a fairly small business employing less than 20 people, you appreciate how training makes your staff more efficient. But you are always rushed off your feet, so your training has been rather ad-hoc to date. That’s about to change: One of our expert advisors will help you devise a skills development plan, source the training you need (subsidised where possible), and help you implement the plan successfully.
People Professionals: For larger organisations seeking skills excellence
You are the person responsible for skills development within a large organisation. You are committed to nurturing the skills of everyone in your team, and you have sophisticated management and training processes in place. But you are constantly striving to improve your approach to skills development. We can work with you to do just that, and help you achieve higher levels of excellence.

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