Training with 1st Safety Solutions

At 1st Safety Solutions, we offer high-quality training solutions specialising in Health, Safety, Environmental, and Quality Management.

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)

First Aid Training Courses

At 1st Safety Solutions, we offer a range of certified First Aid courses designed to equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to respond effectively in emergency situations. Our training is delivered by accredited professionals and tailored to meet the requirements of both workplace and community settings. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refresh your skills, our courses ensure you’re prepared to handle a variety of first aid scenarios with confidence.

This qualification equips learners with the knowledge and skills to handle a wide range of first aid situations. It is ideal for those with workplace responsibilities under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 or involved in voluntary roles. The course includes practical training on CPR, AED use, managing unconscious casualties, and treating minor injuries, heart attacks, strokes, and more.

The qualification is valid for three years, with an annual refresher recommended. No prior first aid knowledge is required, and the course includes a written exam.

The Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work course equips individuals with essential first aid skills to respond to a variety of emergency situations in the workplace or community. Ideal for those with responsibilities under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981, the course covers CPR, choking, shock, minor injuries, and unconscious casualties. Learners will gain practical competencies over one day, with a multi-choice written exam.

The qualification is valid for 3 years, with annual refresher training recommended. No prior knowledge is required. We are an approved Qualsafe training provider, offering high-quality, accredited first aid courses designed to meet regulatory requirements.

IOSH Training Courses

IOSH, a global leader in certified safety and health training, equips individuals and organisations with practical tools to create safer, healthier workplaces. Their innovative courses, suitable for all levels across sectors, foster a culture of safety and health, reducing sickness absence and boosting productivity. Each year, approximately 100,000 employees earn an IOSH qualification.

The IOSH Managing Safely course is an intermediate-level qualification designed for managers and supervisors who are responsible for ensuring workplace safety. It equips participants with the knowledge and practical skills needed to manage health and safety risks effectively. The course covers key topics such as legal responsibilities, conducting risk assessments, investigating incidents, and monitoring safety performance.

No prior experience is required, making it accessible to those new to health and safety management. Upon completion, participants will have the confidence to implement safety measures and foster a safer working environment.

The IOSH Working Safely course is a 1 day, entry-level training designed to provide essential health and safety knowledge for employees across all sectors. It equips participants with the skills to identify common workplace hazards, assess risks, and contribute to a safer working environment. The course is ideal for individuals with no health and safety experience and focuses on practical, real-world applications. Participants will learn how to improve workplace safety and reduce accidents. Upon successful completion, learners receive an IOSH Working Safely certificate, recognised across industries. Delivered by experienced Health & Safety Consultants in Scotland, this course ensures that attendees leave with the confidence and knowledge to implement safety measures in their workplace.

Training Tailored To your Needs

Ever thought about how bespoke training could transform your team? 

1st Safety Solutions offers tailored training programs designed with your business in mind. Picture the leap in efficiency and effectiveness.

Improve Your Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality in your Business

Main Training Courses

Investing in training and process improvement is crucial for all businesses. It equips employees with tools for safer, more efficient work, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. This leads to reduced downtime, increased productivity, and overall benefits. Such training, suitable for all organisational levels, can transform business operations and spur growth as employees continually gain new skills.

Manual Handling Awareness

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require employers to ensure that all employees are trained and competent in manual handling.

This Manual Handling Training Course provides the necessary information and training for organisations to understand more about the risks associated with manual handling.

The manual handling course is aimed at all levels of employees who may undertake manual handling operations, including the transporting of a load of items by lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof by hand or by bodily force.

Asbestos Awareness

Asbestos is an incredibly hazardous substance that causes serious ill-health to anyone who disturbs it. For this reason, anyone who is likely to disturb asbestos in their work must have an awareness of the correct health and safety procedures to follow.

Asbestos Awareness training ensures workers understand the risks associated with the material so that they can avoid work that may disturb asbestos. This Asbestos Awareness course provides a comprehensive introduction to the dangers of working with asbestos and helps employers to comply with the law by ensuring that their workers are appropriately trained in order to work safely.

Working at Height

The Work at Height Regulations 2005 require employers to ensure that a sufficient risk assessment is carried out so that all potential work at height risks are effectively identified, controlled and managed.​

Every employer must also ensure that employees are appropriately trained to ensure that they can carry out their work safely.​

This Working at Height training course helps you to comply with the Work at Height Regulations 2005 by providing employers and employees with the necessary information needed to be able to successfully deal with working at height risks and control measures.

It is the employer’s duty to ensure that this training is provided: Regulation 5 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 states that employers must ensure all employees engaged in any work at height activity must be competent to do so.

Abrasive Wheels

Nearly half of all accidents resulting from abrasive wheels happen due to unsafe working practices and operator errors. If you work with abrasive wheels then following strict health and safety practices is needed to protect both yourself and others from harm.

Abrasive Wheels training will provide you with an introduction to working safely with abrasive wheels so that you can easily identify the hazards, understand the risks and know which control measures are needed to prevent injury and ill-health.

​This course is suitable for anyone who uses abrasive wheels in their work activities.

The course is particularly relevant for those who use bench grinders, pedestal grinders and angle grinders.

Risk Assessors

Risk Assessment training helps businesses comply with the Management of Health and Safety Regulations 1999 by providing guidance on how to complete a suitable and sufficient risk assessment in the workplace.

Risk assessments are a legal requirement for all types of workplaces.

The course helps learners understand each of the key steps of a risk assessment, including how to identify risks, manage hazards and determine the likelihood of harm, so that they are confident in carrying out a risk assessment in their own workplace.

The Risk Assessment course will train attendees on your own risk assessment template making it relevant to your own business operations.

Accident Reporting

The accident investigation and reporting course is aimed at those who are expected to contribute to accident investigations. It is relevant to people at all levels – from senior managers to employees and their representatives.

The course provides sound techniques which can be incorporated into an organisation’s procedures to make accident investigation more structured and consistent.

COSHH Awareness

Hazardous substances can affect anyone within the workplace, not just those who handle them regularly.

COSHH Awareness training is designed to give workers knowledge of the health risks surrounding work with hazardous substances, including how to undertake a COSHH assessment by identifying the risks and the control measures needed, and ensure that they understand how to work safely with hazardous substances.

By providing effective COSHH training, employers can help to ensure that everyone in the workplace is competent to carry out their work safely. Managers, supervisors and other members of staff should be able to recognise the hazards posed by their work, be able to take action to reduce or eliminate the risks and understand how to follow procedures.

COSHH Assessors

COSHH assessors training will provide the important link within your safety management system, and will in turn minimise the potential harm to people. The COSHH Assessors Course has been created to with the flexibility for adjustment to suit any organisations requirements.

​This course is aimed at those who are responsible for assessing the safe use of substances within the workplace. Course Attendees will be provided specific techniques which can be used when assessing usage of substances, reporting their findings and any further action required to be taken.

Fire Safety Awareness

Fire Safety Training is designed to provide employees with knowledge of the risks associated with workplace fires. It goes into detail about the causes of fire and what appropriate fire safety precautions and fire evacuation procedures are in operation at your place of work.

Knowledge on fire safety is incredibly important, as failure to comply with government fire safety regulations could potentially lead to prosecution, fines or legal claims. Fire safety training is therefore compulsory for all organisations.

​Under government legislation, all employees are required to take adequate fire safety training, regardless of the industry they work in. Our fire safety course provides suitable training for all levels of employees, including managers, supervisors, full-time and part-time staff.

​The course is tailored to your businesses fire safety measures and evacuation procedures.

Mental Health First Aid

This course is designed to give the understanding of the need for, and the role of a Mental Health First Aider in the Workplace.

We will go into how to identify ill mental health and provide practical support for someone. We discuss a range of the most common Mental Health Conditions, as well as recognising the signs of stress & how to manage it.

We discuss how to implement a positive culture for Mental Health, and how to introduce an action plan within the workplace.

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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how 1st Safety Solutions uses and protects any information that you give 1st Safety Solutions when you use this website.

1st Safety Solutions is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

1st Safety Solutions may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 23/07/2023.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

  • Name and job title
  • Contact information including email address
  • Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
  • Other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What do we do with the information we gather?

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, in particular for the following reasons:

  • Internal record keeping.
  • We may use the information to improve our products and services.
  • We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided.
  • From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
  • If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at chris@1stsafetysolutions.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to 8 Annat Rd, Perth PH2 7JF.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

 

Copyright Policy

This website and its content are protected by copyright laws. All rights reserved.

The content of this website, including but not limited to text, graphics, images, logos, and software, is the property of 1st Safety Solutions or its content suppliers and is protected by the United Kingdom and international copyright laws.

You may not reproduce, distribute, publish, display, modify, create derivative works from, or exploit in any way the content of this website without the prior written consent of 1st Safety Solutions.

You may download, print, and store limited copies of the content of this website for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you do not alter or remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices.

Any unauthorized use of the content of this website may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, and other laws. 1st Safety Solutions reserves the right to take legal action against any unauthorised use of the content of this website.

Cookie Policy

This website, 1st Safety Solutions, uses cookies to improve your browsing experience and to help us understand how users interact with our site. This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

 How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of purposes, including:

  • To remember your preferences and settings
  • To understand how you use our site and to improve your experience
  • To show you relevant content and advertising
  • To analyse traffic and usage patterns

Cookies that we use

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: These are essential for the proper functioning of our website and cannot be disabled.
  • Functionality cookies: These enable us to remember your preferences and settings, and to provide enhanced, personalized features.
  • Performance cookies: These collect information about how you use our website, such as which pages you visit, and help us to improve the performance of our site.
  • Advertising cookies: These are used to show you relevant content and advertising based on your browsing history and interests.

 Managing your cookie preferences

Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to accept all cookies, to block certain types of cookies, or to block all cookies. You can also set your browser to alert you when a website tries to set a cookie.

Please note that if you block or delete cookies, some features of our website may not work properly.

For more information about managing your cookie preferences, please refer to the help section of your browser or visit www.aboutcookies.org.

 

Terms of Use

This website is operated by 1st Safety Solutions (the “Website”). By using the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (the “Terms”). If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Website.

  1. Use of the Website

The Website is intended for your personal, non-commercial use. You may not use the Website for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. You may not use the Website in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Website or interfere with any other party’s use of the Website.

  1. Intellectual Property

The content of the Website, including but not limited to text, graphics, images, logos, and software, is the property of 1st Safety Solutions or its content suppliers and is protected by the United Kingdom and international copyright laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, publish, display, modify, create derivative works from, or exploit in any way the content of the Website without the prior written consent of 1st Safety Solutions.

  1. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. 1st Safety Solutions makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the Website or the information, content, materials, or products included on the Website. 1st Safety Solutions will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the Website, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages.

  1. Limitation of Liability

1st Safety Solutions will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the Website, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages.

  1. Changes to the Terms

1st Safety Solutions reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time without notice. Your continued use of the Website after any such modification constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms.

  1. Governing Law

These Terms and your use of the Website will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

 

Disclaimer

This website (the “Website”) is provided by 1st Safety Solutions on an “as is” and “as available” basis. 1st Safety Solutions makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of the Website or the information, content, materials, or products included on the Website.

1st Safety Solutions will not be liable for any errors or omissions in the content of the Website, or for any actions taken in reliance on the information provided on the Website. 1st Safety Solutions will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of the Website, including but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, and consequential damages.

1st Safety Solutions does not warrant that the Website will be available at all times or that the Website or any content will be error-free. 1st Safety Solutions reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Website or any content at any time without notice.

The content of the Website is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice. You should always seek the advice of a qualified professional before making any decisions based on the information contained on the Website.

 

Cookie Notice

This website uses cookies to improve your browsing experience and to help us understand how users interact with our site. By continuing to use this website, you consent to the use of cookies. You can find out more about the cookies we use and how to manage them in our Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy.