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We believe our years of experience within this industry will help us answer all of your questions and take care of all of your training needs.

We can help you with your duties as an Employer:

Manual Handling

- To avoid the need for hazardous manual handling, as far as is reasonably practicable
- To assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling that cannot be avoided
- To reduce the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling as far as is reasonably practical

Fire Awareness

- Carry out a fire risk assessment of your workplace
- Identify the significant findings of the risk assessment
- Provide and maintain such fire precautions as are necessary those who use your workplace
- Provide information, instruction and training to your employees about fire precautions.

First Aid At Work

It is the duty of every employer to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of all their employees so far as is reasonably practical. This means that all employers have a ‘duty of care’ for their employees.

Complying with the law

Employers have an obligation under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 and Approved Code of Practice and Guidance (ACOP L74) to make adequate and appropriate First Aid provision for their workforce. It is recommended that someone is able to undertake First Aid duties at all times when people are at work.

Assessing Your Needs

It is your duty to assess the number of staff you need to train and the type of First Aid course they need to do. The level of First Aid cover you require should be based upon an assessment of the following factors:

• Number of employees Hazards and risks in your workplace
• Size of workplace. The distribution of the workforce and work patterns
• The history and location of accidents in the workplace
• Multi-occupied sites and contractor. The remoteness of the site and workers

Always bear in mind that you need an adequate number of trained people at all times to cover for annual leave, hours of work and sickness.

These tables are intended to offer guidance to minimum levels of First Aid cover, and are no replacement for a thorough risk assessment.

Lower Risk e.g. shops, offices, libraries
Employed	Suggested number of First Aid personnel
Up to 50	At least one Appointed Person
50 to 100	At least one First Aider
Over 100	One additional First Aider per 100 employed
Medium Risk e.g. light engineering, assembly work, food processing, warehousing
Employed		Suggested number of First Aid personnel
Up to 20		At least one Appointed Person
20 to 100		At least one First Aider for every 50 employed (or part thereof)
Over 100		One additional First Aider for every 50 employed
Higher Risk e.g. construction, chemical manufacture, dangerous machinery
Employed		Suggested number of First Aid personnel
Up to 5		At least one Appointed Person
5 to 50		At least one First Aider
Over 100		One additional First Aider per 50 employed

These figures are purely recommendations and a true and accurate number of qualified personnel will not be ascertained until a full and accurate risk assessment is carried out by the employer

Advice
If you are unsure what you should do next or need advice on what your requirements may be, please feel free to contact our office on 02392 483283 or email your query to exl.training@btconnect.com. We shall e

ndeavour to answer your queries quickly and professionally.

Lower Risk

Higher Risk