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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We run a wide variety of training courses at Cosaint. Some of these are bespoke training days put on for a specific company, but many of our course dates are available for individual bookings. To make it as easy as possible for you to know what training courses we have on, and when, we have created a handy PDF Course Planner that covers October to December 2018. [...]
Accident investigation is one of the most challenging aspects of a Health and Safety Manager's role - the investigation needs to uncover a full picture of the incident, being sufficiently detailed, while also ensuring lines of communication remain open. A Health and Safety practitioner is also carrying out an accident investigation in the knowledge that a HSE inspection or compensation claim could be just around the corner, which can increase [...]
It's not something we tend to think about, but all jobs have an element of risk to health and safety - from sales people to construction workers, and farmers to office workers - we all face hazards in different forms on a daily basis. In the UK, strict health and safety legislation and high standards of expectation on employers, employees, and others, means that in the Health and Safety Executive's [...]