Cosaint Training is committed to delivering quality training and qualifications to a range of health and safety professionals across the UK and Ireland. We have proudly been the first training provider in Ireland to deliver certain courses, and now we've done it again. We are the first provider in Ireland for the new one-day NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Health and Safety Leadership Excellence. This is not the first time [...]
The past 12 months have resulted in new ways of working for most employers – understanding and implementing furlough as a new concept, ensuring COVID-safe practices such as frequent sanitising and social distancing, and many employees adapting to full-time or part-time remote working or working from home (WFH). Initially, it was assumed that working from home would be a temporary arrangement, but as we begin to emerge from strict lockdowns [...]
We’re celebrating! We’re delighted to announce Cosaint Training has been awarded NEBOSH Gold Learning Partner Status - the world’s leading accreditation body for the health and safety industry. NEBOSH launched the new learning partner programme as a quality assurance scheme. It’s a way to help people recognise the learning providers that go above and beyond in their delivery of NEBOSH courses. Achieving Learning Partner Gold Status with NEBOSH means [...]
Cosaint Training are at the forefront of delivering quality training and qualifications to a range of health and safety professionals across Northern Ireland, Ireland, and the UK. The company were the first training provider in Northern Ireland to be approved to deliver the new NEBOSH HSE Introduction to Incident Investigation one day course. Many Cosaint clients have been asking about incident investigation training, so when two huge names in [...]
Cosaint Training are approved to deliver NEW courses in First Aid for Mental Health. What is Mental Health? Mental health is defined as "psychological and emotional wellbeing”. Mental ill-health has reached an all-time high in the UK. As employers, we take steps to ensure the physical health and safety of employees, which is undoubtedly important, but with mental ill-health reaching epidemic proportions, employers are in a unique position to [...]
Mental Health First Aid training teaches participants how to recognise mental health problems in others, how to provide support to those experiencing a mental health problem, and what to do in a mental health crisis. First Aid for Mental Health is not a substitute for professional mental health services, but it can be used to help identify mental health problems in their early stages, as well as offering first-line support [...]
The Health and Safety Executive have released their statistical summary for 2018. The full PDF includes information and facts on a range of topics, including: ill health, injuries, costs, differences within various industries, comparisons with other countries, and information relating to enforcement. Key figures presented include: 1.4 million working people suffering from a work-related illness 2,595 mesothelioma deaths due to past asbestos exposures (2016) 144 workers killed at work 555,000 injuries occurred at work [...]
In 2017, Construction News carried out a Mental Health Survey with 1,139 participants. The aim of the survey was to raise awareness of mental health issues in the workplace, particularly in construction. Some of the key findings are displayed in the infographic above. While awareness of mental health has generally increased, poor mental health can still be stigmatised. This can be combated by talking openly about mental health, sharing tips [...]
Cosaint Training are the only provider in Ireland approved to deliver the NEW IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing one day course. Health and wellbeing has increasingly become a strategic consideration for many businesses, bringing with it the need for companies to focus on both what they do for health and wellbeing and how they do it. According to the IOSH report ‘The Healthy Profit’, sickness absence due to mental [...]
The British Heart Foundation are supporting Restart A Heart Day 2018. Held on Tuesday, 16th October, the aim of the day is to promote vital and life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and Automated External Defibrillator (AED) skills. Heart Attacks - The Facts Someone in the UK has a heart attack approximately every 7 minutes. There are more than 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK each year. Around 3,000 of these [...]