First Aid & Health and Safety Training in Wigan

Why we come to you instead

Training providers concentrate their scheduled open courses where the volume is, which usually means central Manchester. For a Wigan employer that turns a one-day course into a one-day course plus two hours of travelling per person, and it turns a single replacement first aider into a disproportionate amount of hassle.

Our answer to that is to bring the trainer to you. Group courses run at your own premises anywhere in the borough with no travel charge, which means nobody loses a morning to the M6 and the examples can use your own equipment rather than a generic warehouse. Where you only need one or two people trained, our open course places are scheduled at the Castle Hill Centre in Bolton, which is a considerably shorter journey than Manchester.

What runs as an open course place

These are bookable by the single place. Dates currently run at our Bolton venue:

Live dates and prices are on each course page. If a Wigan venue would make the difference for you, say so when you get in touch — it is worth us knowing there is demand.

When a group course is not the right answer

Most training pages push you towards the bigger purchase. This one will not, because for a lot of Wigan businesses it would be the wrong advice.

Group courses are priced per course with a minimum of 12 places chargeable. That is excellent value if you have a dozen people to train and poor value if you have four. A small employer with three or four staff needing first aid is almost always better off buying open places, and we would rather tell you that than take the larger booking.

One thing that flips the answer: if you are already paying for 12 places, the seats above your actual need cost nothing. If eight people must be trained and four more are due a refresher, put all twelve in. The full working is in how much does training cost.

Group training at your premises

Where a group course does make sense, the trainer comes to you anywhere in the borough at no travel charge, the price is flat across the block of places, and the examples can use your own equipment and your own hazards instead of a generic warehouse.

Courses that run only as group training:

• Level 1 Health and Safety, three hours for the whole workforce
• Manual handling, taught against the loads your team actually lifts
• Level 2 Principles of COSHH
• Level 3 Risk Assessment and Level 3 Health and Safety
• Level 1 and Level 3 Food Safety
• Paediatric first aid for nurseries
• Mental Health First Aid, which takes up to 16 with a minimum of 6 chargeable

Manual handling is the one worth flagging for a borough with this much warehousing and distribution in it. The law does not simply require training: the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 say avoid hazardous handling where reasonably practicable, assess what you cannot avoid, then reduce the risk. Training is one way of reducing it, and on its own the weakest one. A trolley or a better shelf height removes the risk; training asks someone to cope with it.

How many first aiders do you actually need?

There is no legal ratio, which surprises most people. The number comes out of your first aid needs assessment. HSE’s guidance is that where 25 or more people are employed, even in a low-hazard workplace, at least one trained first aider should be provided.

Two practical points that matter more than the headline number. Holiday and sickness cover means one first aider is really no first aider for several weeks of the year. And if your only first aider leaves, your cover walks out with them, which is the argument for training two rather than one.

Whether you need the one-day or the three-day course is also an assessment decision rather than a budget one. We compare them in First Aid at Work: one day or three?, and what the law requires overall is in workplace first aid requirements.

Checking a provider before you book

Nobody has been “HSE approved” since 2013, and satisfying yourself that a provider is competent is the employer’s own responsibility. It takes about ten minutes and costs nothing.

Ask which awarding organisation issues the certificate, not which logos are on the website. Ask about the trainer’s qualifications and currency. Ask how many people will be in the room, because for first aid HSE guidance notes that class sizes above 12 raise concerns about assessing everyone properly without a second trainer. The full list is in how to choose a first aid training provider, and what makes a qualification regulated is in how to check a qualification is accredited.

Current courses and prices

Deals

Emergency First Aid at Work Group Course – Sale: £295.00 for up to 12 people £495.00 Original price was: £495.00.£295.00Current price is: £295.00. Excluding Vat View course →

First Aid at Work Courses

Emergency First Aid at Work Group Course £495.00 Excluding Vat View course → Emergency First Aid Open Course £85.00 Excluding Vat View course → First Aid at Work Group Course £945.00 – £1,145.00Price range: £945.00 through £1,145.00 Excluding Vat View course → First Aid at Work Open Course £185.00 Excluding Vat View course → First Aid at Work ReQual Open Course £95.00 Excluding Vat View course → Paediatric First Aid Group Course £650.00 – £750.00Price range: £650.00 through £750.00 Excluding Vat View course → Paediatric First Aid Open Course £105.00 Excluding Vat View course →

Deals

Level 2 Health and Safety Group Course – Sale: £295.00 for up to 12 people £445.00 Original price was: £445.00.£295.00Current price is: £295.00. Excluding Vat View course →

Health & Safety Courses

Level 1 Health & Safety Group Course £370.00 – £450.00Price range: £370.00 through £450.00 Excluding Vat View course → Level 2 Health & Safety Group Course £445.00 – £555.00Price range: £445.00 through £555.00 Excluding Vat View course → Level 2 Health & Safety Open Course £85.00 Excluding Vat View course → Level 2 Health and Safety Online Course £25.00 Excluding Vat View course → Level 2 Manual Handling Group Course £370.00 – £450.00Price range: £370.00 through £450.00 Excluding Vat View course → Level 2 Principles of COSHH Group Course £370.00 – £450.00Price range: £370.00 through £450.00 Excluding Vat View course → Level 3 Health & Safety Group Course £1,495.00 – £1,875.00Price range: £1,495.00 through £1,875.00 Excluding Vat View course → Level 3 Risk Assessment Group Course £645.00 – £725.00Price range: £645.00 through £725.00 Excluding Vat View course →

Give us the numbers and we will be honest about whether open places beat a group booking. If the smaller purchase is the right one, we will say so. 0845 838 4643.