First Aid Open Courses

Date: Tue 29th Jan 2008

Please see below a list of our imminent First Aid open courses in Sale (Manchester) and Wimborne (Dorset) below. If you would like to book a place, please call us on 0800 389 1314.

Dates for February/March 2008

Venue: Sale, Manchester:

4 day First Aid at Work:

4-7 February 2008

1 day Appointed Person:

5 March 2008

Venue: Wimborne, Dorset:

4 day First Aid at Work:

5-8 February 2008

1 day Appointed Person:

3 March 2008

Remember we now offer open courses for Fire Training and Health & Safety - please call us for details of prices and dates.

Teach for Ouch

Date: Tue 29th Jan 2008

If you are super safe, but still possess a dynamic teaching style you could be a perfect Ouch trainer. Please contact Simon on 01202 880999, and walk this way......

CIEH courses get a makeover

Date: Tue 29th Jan 2008

Both the CIEH Foundation Certificate in Health and Safety in the Workplace and the Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene have had a makeover including a new name in response to the new UK standards in health and safety.

The CIEH Foundation Certificate in Health and Safety in the Workplace is being replaced by the Level 2 Award in Health and Safety in the Workplace. This qualification has been completely revised with new and updated content including major new sections addressing transport and vehicles in the workplace, noise and vibration and working at heights.

The CIEH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene is being replaced by the CIEH Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering. This qualification has been completely revised with more emphasis on monitoring controls, corrective actions and methods of reporting within food safety management systems. The syllabus has also been updated to reflect the latest changes to legislation and now includes the problems that arise from allergen contamination. There is less about the science of bacteriology and more about its control. The subject of pest control is also scaled down, due to the increased use of commercial pest control contractors.

Both new qualifications, as with all CIEH qualifications, can be customised to meet both business and individual needs in order to make the learning experience more relevant.

These new qualifications will run in conjunction with the old CIEH courses until their withdrawal.

Ouch Training Room open for even more business

Date: Tue 29th Jan 2008

Ouch now offer even more open courses at both our training room in Wimborne and our venue in Sale. As well as First Aid training we now provide the following courses for individual delegates:

Fire Marshall
Fire Extinguisher
CIEH Level 2 Health & Safety in the Workplace
CIEH Advanced Health & Safety
CIEH Level 3 Risk Assessment
CIEH Level 2 Conflict Resolution & Personal Safety
CIEH Principles of Manual Handling

Please get in touch if you are an individual looking for excellent low cost training or an organisation in search of training solutions for smaller numbers of staff.

The Corporate Manslaughter Act: what you need to know.

Date: Mon 5th Nov 2007

In 2008, Ouch will be offering a lecture on this new act, to provide you with all you need to know about your responsibilities towards employees.

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act comes into force next year under which gross failures in the management of health & safety, causing death, can result in prosecution. A substantial part of this failure must have been at a senior level but the Act does not increase liability for individual directors or managers.

Organisations convicted of corporate manslaughter face an unlimited fine and courts will also have the power to impose a publicity order, requiring them to publicise details of their conviction and fine.

The new Act will only be used when standards are far below what would have been reasonably expected, so if you have an effective health and safety management system in place there will be no repercussions from this new law.

Go to www.justice.gov.uk for an up to date guide to the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act and get in touch with Ouch for details about the lecture.

Why IOSH are bonkers about conkers!

Date: Mon 5th Nov 2007

IOSH are working to dispel the media fuelled myth that health & safety laws are ridiculous and only exist to restrict our lives. They are launching the ‘Bonkers Conker’ stamp to apply to stories that distort the aim of health & safety, such as tales of goggle-wearing conker players.

The positive version of this stamp will be the ‘Bonzer Conker’, awarded to balanced and sensible portrayals of health & safety laws and practices that continue to keep workers and the public safe from unnecessary risk through reasonable precautions.

To publicize this campaign IOSH are sponsoring the World Conker Championships in Northamptonshire and entering their presidential team as players, minus the safety goggles, of course.

That’s one in the eye for health and safety detractors!

Find out more about this campaign by going to www.iosh.co.uk/conkers

Steve's our manual handling man!

Date: Wed 19th Sep 2007

Ouch would like to say a big hello to Steve Hankey, our newly qualified Manual Handling Instructor who has recently completed an intensive course at the Health and Safety Laboratory in Buxton. He adds to our growing team of highly qualified trainers, all ready and willing to provide their training expertise to organisations wishing to comply with increasingly stringent Health and Safety regulations.

Ouch plus one!

Date: Wed 5th Sep 2007

We would like to welcome Sylvia, our new office assistant, to our head office in Dorset. An expert administrator, she joins the hub of activity that is the Ouch power house, helping to allocate trainers, adminster booking system and generally keep Ouch processes running smoothly.

Blackpool Bonanza for YHA

Date: Wed 5th Sep 2007

Ouch held an ambitious first aid training session beside the sea in July, for 300 Youth Hostel Association staff. Beautiful Blackpool was the venue for a bumptious day of bandaging, blood and breathing with YHA staff acting out scenarios using realistically gory props and lashings of fake blood. Ouch trainers demonstrated valuable life saving techniques and awarded prizes to the delegates with the best skills. This was another successful event for the YHA and we look forward to repeating this enjoyable mass training day next year.