
ALTTA is pleased to announce that we are now working in partnership with the National College for High Speed Rail.
Who are the National College of High Speed Rail?
The college is a new specialist education and training institution and is one of only five, government sponsored, specialist institutions that is designed to bring the specific, higher level skills that businesses need. The college is a flagship skills centre for high speed rail, which opened its doors in September 2017 and have two campuses, one in Doncaster and the other in Birmingham. The college is at the forefront of cutting-edge technology and aims, with the help of ALTTA, to change the way training is delivered.
The skills that you will develop are transferable and supportive to the new era of rail. ALTTA and the college will help you to gain the skills required to work on the HS2 project, as well as all future rail projects across the UK. The rail industry is an exceptionally good place to build a career, especially considering approximately 1,500 rail professionals are retiring each year, with the number of people joining not being high enough to fill this gap. There is a lot of room in the rail industry to create careers for the next generation, ALTTA and the college will work with you to help bridge that gap.
The training courses are employer led, which means the courses will be tailor made to suit the role that each candidate will be performing.
ALTTA and the college are non-discriminative organisations, actively working to bring greater diversity to the logistics and rail sectors.
The courses
Our partnership will be focused on bringing safety to the rail industry, our courses will be delivered by highly skilled individuals who will have a great understanding of the roles you will be required to undertake. Health and Safety is at the forefront of everything we do in the workplace, the safety culture begins with the management, so managers will need to have a great understanding of their roles and responsibilities towards their employees, as well as others.
Our IOSH Managing Safely course will focus on:
Unit 1: Introducing Managing Safely
Unit 2: Assessing risks
Unit 3: Controlling risks
Unit 4: Understanding responsibilities
Unit 5: Understanding hazards
Unit 6: Investigating incidents
Unit 7: Measuring performance
This course will be delivered over 3 days in either Doncaster, Birmingham or ALTTA’s academy in Peterborough. As well as the managers being responsible for the safety culture, all employees must co-operate with their employer on matters of health and safety. Our aim is to ensure that all employees, are also aware of their responsibilities, to themselves and others.
Our IOSH Working Safely course will focus on:
Module 1: Introducing working safely
Module 2: Defining hazard and risk
Module 3: Identifying common hazards
Module 4: Improving safety performance
Module 5: Protecting our environment
This course will be delivered over 1 day in either Doncaster, Birmingham or ALTTA’s academy in Peterborough.
It doesn’t matter how well organised or how good a safety culture is, accidents will happen, especially when dealing with heavy machinery and equipment. Our partnership aims to train the workforce with the highest quality first aid. Our 3-day Level 3 course covers the following:
Initial Care
First Aid at Work Regulations and Rules
Accident Reporting
Activating Emergency Medical Services
Fears of First Aid
Barriers - gloves and face barriers
Initial Assessment and airway management
Unconscious Breathing and Recovery Position
Cardiac Problems
The Heart
Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attacks and CPR
One Rescuer CPR
Compressions only CPR
CPR Handover to a Second Rescuer
Introduction to AED's
Other Primary Care First Aid Problems
Adult Choking, Conscious and Unconscious
Serious Bleeding Management and Wounds
Shock Management and types of Shock
Spinal Injury Management
Specific Injury Management
- Injury Assessment
- Breaks, Fractures and Splinting
- Strains and Sprains
- Types of Wounds and Practice Bandaging different Injuries
- Embedded Objects
- Burns and Scalds
- Head Injuries
- Poisoning
- Temperature Injuries - Heat Stroke, Heat Exhaustion and Hypothermia
- Eye Injuries
- Bites and Stings
- Crush Injuries
- Chest Injuries
- Electrical Injuries
Illness Management
- Illness Assessment
- The Respiratory System and Hypoxia
- Diabetes
- Anaphylactic Shock
- Heart Attack
- Angina
- Stroke
- Asthma and Respiratory Problems
- Hyperventilating
If the company risk assessment has shown that the 3-day first aid course is not required, then we also deliver the Level 2, 1-day training course. The content is as follows:
Initial Care
- First Aid at Work Regulations and Rules
- Fears of First Aid
- Barriers
- Initial Assessment
- Unconscious Breathing and Recovery Position
Cardiac Problems
- The Heart, Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Heart Attacks and CPR
- One Rescuer CPR
- Chest Only Compressions
- CPR Handover to a Second Rescuer
Other Primary Care First Aid Problems
- Adult Choking, Conscious and Unconscious
- Serious Bleeding Management and Wounds
- Shock
- Spinal Injury Management
- Burns and Scalds
- Anaphylactic Shock and Allergies
- Seizures and Epilepsy
If you are looking for a career that is passenger lead, then we also offer the 12-hour paediatric course that deals with both adult and child emergencies.
These courses can be delivered at either Doncaster, Birmingham or ALTTA’s academy in Peterborough.
Our partnership is also able to deliver fully accredited RTITB and ITSSAR forklift training, this training can only be delivered at our Peterborough academy at the moment, but we aim to role this out in Doncaster and Birmingham in the coming months.
If you are interested in any of the following courses please email your interest to businessenquiries@nchsr.ac.uk
We can offer a wide range of courses and services to the logistics and transport sector.
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