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August 2010 - Instructors Wanted
Are you a trainer / instructor? Do you have the skills to be able to teach a wide range of students on our short courses . Kensey Training are looking for part time instructors with the skills to deliver several of these courses throughout Devon and Cornwall . Good rates of pay available. Please look at our "course details" to see what we provide or contact us for further information. .
June 2010 - Environmental Policy
At Kensey Training, our aim is to act as responsibly as we can in being an “environmentally friendly” business and, as a local training company, to promote and raise awareness of the issues to others and to encourage them by example. To this end, we have available our full environmental policy. Please enquire to receive a copy.
February 2010 - First Aid Courses at Kensey Training are HSE registered and approved
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide suitable first-aid equipment, facilities and personnel to enable immediate assistance to be given to employees if they are injured or become ill at work. Regulation 3(2) states that in order to provide first aid to injured or ill employees, '..a person shall not be suitable unless he has undergone -
such training and has such qualifications as the Health and Safety Executive may approve for the time being in respect of that case or class of case, and
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such additional training, if any, as may be appropriate in the circumstances of that case'
If you have identified that first-aiders are needed in your workplace, they must have a valid certificate of competence in FAW or emergency first aid at work (EFAW). EFAW training enables a first-aider to give emergency first aid to someone who is injured or becomes ill while at work. FAW training includes EFAW and also equips the first-aider to apply first aid to a range of specific injuries and illnesses.
FAW courses involve at least 18 hours of training and are run over three days.
EFAW lasts for at least six hours of training and is usually run over one day. Kensey Training is approved by and registered with HSE to provide this training.
FAW and EFAW certificates last for three years. Before their certificates expire, first-aiders will need to undertake an FAW requalification course or an EFAW course, as appropriate, to obtain another three-year certificate.
HSE strongly recommends that first-aiders undertake annual refresher training, during any three-year FAW/EFAW certification period. Although not mandatory, this will help qualified first-aiders maintain their basic skills and keep up to date with any changes to first-aid procedures. We at Kensey Training provide refresher courses.
If you would like further information on any of our HSE approved First Aid training then please contact us
2009 - KENSEY TRAINING CELEBRATES 40 YEARS
1969 - 2009
Kensey Training has more than one reason to celebrate. Not only are they celebrating their
40th year of providing training courses, initially in and around Launceston but now throughout Devon and Cornwall, but also it is a year since the business was taken over by Mel Philps and Derek Gane, with the move to new premises at Tregaller Works, South Petherwin. Mel and Derek have been working for Kensey Training for a number of years and are ably assisted by their administrator, Sandra Smale, and new clerical assistant, Maria Philps.
The premises are located about one mile from the Pennygillam Roundabout in Launceston and there are plenty of parking spaces. Being on the Devon and Cornwall border and close to the A30, Kensey Training is easily accessible from all points of the compass.
The strength of Kensey Training lies in the fact that they offer a wide range of short courses which are open to everyone at really competitive prices, some of which have remained unaltered for a few years. Additionally they have excellent facilities in which to deliver their classroom based courses, but are also willing to come to any employer, group or organisation if that is more convenient. Such courses include First Aid, Health and Safety, Food Safety and Manual Handling. The full range of chainsaw courses, pesticide, forklift, brushcutter, tractor driving, vehicle and trailer, and transport of animals courses are all completed on site, wherever they are needed.
As accredited training providers working in partnership with Duchy College, Kensey Training deliver courses which carry nationally recognised qualifications e.g. NPTC, CIEH and Lantra.
Kensey Training offer generous discount on all their courses, ranging from £5 to £50 per person and will run special price reductions throughout the year.
If you would like further information on anything at all please contact Kensey Training and they will be only too pleased to give you any assistance or advice you may need.
Health and Safety and Risk Management in Winching
Do you have a winch on your 4x4?. Do you use it in your employment? Do you know how to use and maintain it safely and correctly? Suitable for any person who is to operate a hand or mechanical winch on or off the road. Recommended for many industries and work environments including Forestry, Local Authorities, Engineering, Recovery Operators, 4x4 Off Road Drivers. Training is a legal requirement if you use winches for business purposes. PUWER regulations require employers to ensure that adequate training is given and that winches are only used by those suitably trained in their safe use. This is a 1 day Lantra accredited course for up to 4 people. Course covers; Introduction to winching, Personal protective equipment, Safety of the scene, Winch types and equipment, The object, Methods of recovery, Practical recovery sessions.
Courses
Kensey Training are able to provide the following courses for individuals at one of our training centres or at your premises for a group. All first aid training courses to cover Cornwall and Devon, Emergency first aid, first aid at work, first aid at work refresher, paediatric first aid, health and safety first priciples, food safety level 2, food safety level 3, basic food hygiene, risk assessment, moving and handling, manual handling, health and safety induction, fire prevention, infection control, NPTC chainsaw CS30 31 medium trees 32 windblown 34 tree climbing and aerial rescue 38 39 use of chainsaw from rope and harness, Lantra basic chainsaw, maintenance and crosscut, crosscutting and basic felling, chainsaw refresher, brushcutter and trimmer, woodchipper, stumpgrinder, hand held hedgetrimmer, powered pole pruner, brushwood chipper, ride on mowers, sawbench, mobile elevating work platform, mewp, scissor lift, cherry picker, winching, off road 4x4, landrover, vehicle winching, hedgelaying, dry stone walling, small holders skills, lambing, fencing, pesticides knapsack spraying PA1 PA6 tractor mounted sprayer PA2, pest control, rodent rabbit mole squirrel domestic insects grain pests flies, abrasive wheels, small engine, mower maintenance, basic welding skills, workshop skills, working at heights, scaffold tower, safe use of ladders, forklift trucks, counterbalance, telehandler, tractor driving, tracors on slopes, hedgeflail, front end loader, atv, quad bike, b + e trailer training, welfare of animals in transit, CIEH, Lantra, NPTC, Kensey, HSE, RTITB, ITTSAR NPORS in Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Launceston, Bude, Tavistock, Plymouth, Liskeard, Saltash, Callington, Truro, Camborne, Camelford, Barnstaple, Bideford, Dartmouth, West Curry, Kingsbridge, Exeter, Torquay, Paignton, Brixham, Newton Abbott, Exmouth, Dawlish Warren, Sidmouth, Budleigh Salterton, Okehampton, Newquay, Wadebridge, Dartmoor, Bodmin, south west, Honiton, Tiverton, Falmouth, Penzance, Hayle, Redruth, St Austell, Torpoint, Looe, Redruth.
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