New services from The Safety Educational Trust

Jo Howarth of The De-Stress Show.

Written By: Mark Armstrong

Provided By: The Safety Educational Trust

The Safety Educational Trust has announced a number of new services that it will be providing.

Holistic treatments such as reflexology, Indian head massages, back massages and reiki will now be provided by a partner associate of the Trust, which can be booked via the Trust website, as well as the introduction of games and quizzes to further enhance the finales of existing courses taking place at the Trust.

This is in addition to the existing services which are delivered in partnership with associates of the Trust. They include:

• Workplace Hazard Awareness Courses for Schools
• Bespoke Training
• Sixty Really Useful Minutes (Golden Hour Sessions) to minimise production or service down time
• Independent Insight Analysis of current compliance status
• Green Screen Recording - the facilities and support to produce an organisation’s own training courses and videos at a modest cost enabling the delivery of induction training and tool box talks at any time.
• Creating Animations and Safety Artwork
• Venue Hire
• Virtual Office (Business Address)
• Health and Safety Templates (Forms, Risk Assessments, Method Statements etc)
• Health and Safety Presentation materials (Slide Share)

Managed by George Phillips, the Safety Educational Trust was officially launched in April. The Trust provides a range of high quality comparatively priced (bespoke) safety, health and wellbeing training courses and workshops using an array of excellent resources which are delivered at 1 Old Hall Street or at an organisation’s premises by arrangement.

George commented: “Workplace safety measures are vitally important for a company to have in place. Some companies may think their health and safety systems are fine, but if there are gaps and accidents happen as a result, the consequences can be dire for all concerned.”

The Trust is a not-for-profit enterprise that aims to support the needs of social enterprises, Chamber members, charities, SMEs and business start-ups in becoming and remaining compliant with current legislation. By working in partnership with highly-qualified and experienced professionals associates and sharing resources, the Trust can deliver better value courses and workshops with greater regularity, flexibility and reliability.

The core subject courses such as Safety Induction and Awareness and a range of facilitated online courses are held on a weekly basis. Courses which are held bi-weekly cover such topics as managing safety, risk profiling, assessment and management; personal safety, conflict management, workplace resilience and managing workplace stress (the latter presented by Jo Howarth of The De-Stress Show, pictured here).

Full details of the courses can be found online at www.thesafetyeducationaltrust.org or by calling 0151 665 0009 or 07947 839075. For further information, you can also email admin@thesafetyeducationaltrust.org.

In addition, you can interact with The Safety Educational Trust on social media. Click these links to like, follow and connect with the Trust on Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. You can also follow The Trust on Twitter @SafeEdTrust.

Yet another week of stress?

Written By: Mark Armstrong

Provided By: The Safety Educational Trust

The following story is courtesy of The Safety Educational Trust ...

Hello from the Trust!

“We see the world of work changing fast. Everything has to be ‘agile’, everything has to be ‘lean’ and it all has to be right 24-7, 365 days a year.  It’s increasingly competitive and uncompromising”. This is a quote by Jan Chmiel, Chief Executive of IOSH.

We all understand that having healthy, motivated people in business improves results, and we believe that investing in good safety and health improves business reliance and reputation. Safety and health is seen as an integral part of running a well-managed business.

Conflict and work-related stress are major issues in many organisations today but equally important are safety and health management, risk management and statutory compliance. We offer the highest quality short courses and workshops dealing with these important issues at the right time, the right cost and at easily accessible venues.

From April, with the support of our associates, we will deliver courses and workshops which will enable you and your people the opportunity to create and sustain a safe and healthy workplace where the welfare and wellbeing of all is taken seriously. The courses and workshops will be delivered at our fee of £40.00 per delegate; see website for full details and our special introductory offers.

The next workshops are:

Get SET for Managing Workplace Stress (Thursday April 9; 09.30-13.00)

Get SET with Workplace Resilience (Friday April 17; 09.30-13.00)

You are now only a couple of clicks away from your solutions!

For more information, you can email George Phillips at admin@thesafetyeducationaltrust.org.

Alternatively, you can visit www.thesafetyeducationaltrust.org, or you can call either 0151 665 0009 or 07947 839075.

An introduction to The Safety Educational Trust

Written By: Mark Armstrong

Provided By: The Safety Educational Trust

The Safety Educational Trust is a not-for-profit enterprise which officially launches on April 7 2015. The Trust will work closely with a team of highly qualified and experienced professional colleagues to deliver essential, competitively priced (bespoke) training on safety, health, welfare and wellbeing issues, using excellent resources at easily-accessible venues to provide best value for your company or organisation. Once launched, a comprehensive range of workshops and courses will commence for enterprises that need and want cost-effective, relevant, readily available and easily accessible training. It aims to support the needs of social enterprises, Chambers of Commerce members, charities, small to medium-sized business enterprises (SMEs) and business start-ups in becoming and remaining compliant with current legislation.

As managers and directors of businesses, especially SMEs, you may sometimes overlook health and safety duties due to an understandable focus on delivering your products and services and concentrating on other areas of your organisation. However, it is vital that these duties are properly addressed; a failure to do so not only impacts on the reputation of the organisation and the safety of employees, but it can also lead to financial catastrophe in the event of an accident in the workplace. When investigations into such incidents are carried out and in subsequent prosecutions or litigation, the first question that will be asked is: "Was your employee properly trained in health and safety for this job?"

Research says that people in the workplace today value optimum safety, good health, a feeling of being valued, a sense of belonging and a chance to get involved. Clearly a workforce that is given the benefit of the information, instruction and training to which they are entitled will be a safer, healthier, happier and more productive workforce.  Commencing April 7, the schedule for training will be as follows:

Monday: Facilitated online courses

Tuesday: Health and Safety Induction Day

Wednesday: Managing Safety Day (fortnightly)
                Risk Profiling, Assessment and Management (fortnightly)
                 Facilitated online courses (early morning)

Thursday: Personal Safety Workshop (fortnightly)
              Conflict Management Workshop (fortnightly)
              Facilitated online courses (afternoon / evening)

Friday: Workplace Resilience (fortnightly)
           Managing Workplace Stress (fortnightly)

Saturday: Facilitated online courses

The Trust's rolling programme of certificated courses will be delivered by accredited tutors to meet the needs of managers, core staff and new starters to ensure your compliance within current legislation. As noted above, facilitated online sessions are available for the 'time pressed' which can also be taken at weekends, early mornings or during the evening to suit the needs of your business and shift workers.

Full details of all of the training that the Trust offers can be found online at www.thesafetyeducationaltrust.org.

To contact the Trust or to enquire about an upcoming course/event, you can call 0151 665 0009 or email admin@thesafetyeducationaltrust.org.