How Splat are delivering Covid Safe First Aid Training
Since Covid some things have changed, but we think you might life it better!
If you have done first aid training before you know how physical it is, and how much human contact there is. Often, when we’re training, people are already a bit ‘grossed out’ by the level of contact with strangers or colleagues. If this is you, you’re in luck.
Its changed, for now and for the foreseeable future – contact in first aid classes is barely a thing!
At Splat we follow guidance from the First Aid Awarding Organisation Forum (FAAOF), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Qualsafe Awards. The guidance ensures you will be safe during first aid training without losing valuable learning experience.
And we have carried out a full risk assessment of our premises and we are re-configuring our huge classroom so that social distancing is easy. We will use the same principles when we train on your premises too. If you don’t have a large enough training room to provide socially distanced training we would like to invite you to use our premises for free.
In our classroom your safety is paramount. Here’s the things we have put in place:
- Lots of new sanitizer points installed.
- A space large enough that you can be 2m distanced at all times.
- New hand wash basins installed.
- Any shared equipment sanitized between uses.
- Clean equipment provided for every session.
- Signage will remind learners to sanitize hands regularly.
- Learners are asked to bring own snacks and biscuits.
- Sanitiser will be provided.
- Masks will be available.
New ways of learning are in development but we will keep our fun collaborative approach, don’t worry!
Some other things we are putting in place:
- CPR will be learned with your own manikin and your own set of lungs.
- You will be taught CPR with and without breaths, and we will discuss the impact Covid has on your decision making in an emergency.
- To learn recovery position, you will discuss in detail how to put someone into recovery position, and be assessed putting yourself in recovery position.
- When learning bandaging, you will now be asked to bandage your own leg.
- Choking will be learned through detailed description and demonstration, and you will demonstrate on a manikin.
New approaches to the booking and administration side of things:
- All delegates will be screened at booking and on arrival.
- We will collect and store data safely for track and trace purposes.
- If a learner develops symptoms before or during training, we will send them home to put their feet up.
- If a learner develops symptoms after training, we will track and trace those people on the course.
We think these new procedures go above and beyond the basic requirements, in order to care for our learners. We are determined that Covid will not impair your experience of first aid training with Splat.
If you have any further suggestions or worries we would love to hear about them, we’re willing to learn from you.
Finally, you will be pleased to know we are going to try to keep our prices the same. Although training at your own site may have to be slightly more expensive. If your training room is too small to safely provide all your delegates with 2m social distancing. This means we have to deliver 2 separate training days. We will provide your second day at a discount, OR you can come to our beautiful rural classroom, where we can provide 12 socially distanced seats at no extra cost.
You can book courses here, and if you have any questions at al please get in touch.
Stay safe folks, see you soon.
Amy @ Splat
