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AMTD involved in Restart a Heart Day 2017 !

Restart a heart day- Oct 16th 2017
Restart a Heart Day is a designated day of action across Europe with the aim to teach vital life saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills to as many people as possible

Last year, over 100,000 …

BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION SUPPORTER DAY

 

Alison Meadows and Pat Scott attended the British Heart Foundation supporter day on 4th July at University of Manchester.

AMTD have been keen supporters of the work of the British Heart Foundation since the start of the business 10 years …

Out of Sight – the dangers of eye injuries

Out of Sight – the dangers of eye injuries
At AMTD we don’t believe the dangers of eye injuries for workers should be out of sight as this is part of the First aid at work syllabus and a topic that is popping …

Future Changes to First Aid Guidelines

First Aid guidelines changes coming soon
As a first aider you may already be aware  that every 5 years there are potential changes to first aid as a result of the European Resuscitation Council (ERC), the Resuscitation Council (UK) and the …

Quality Matters!

AMTD – Where quality matters!
AMTD are delighted to announce that we are now a Qualsafe approved centre! Qualsafe is the UK’s largest awarding organisation for first aid qualifications.

So why did we want to become an approved centre?

In Oct 2013 …

Paediatric First Aid – Compulsory?

Government seeks sector’s views on compulsory Paediatric first aid training
At AMTD we are delighted that a Government consultation has been launched on proposals for all newly qualified nursery staff to undertake compulsory paediatric first aid training for the first …

Annual workplace fatalities rise !

Provisional data from the HSE shows that 142 workers were fatally injured at work between April 2014 and March 2015, an increase on last year’s all time low of 136. Some of the figures are  33 deaths in Agricultural workers, …

Level 1 TQUK approved centre !

In March this year AMTD became an TQUK approved centre, this is in addition to us being an EDI approved centre. TQUK and EDI are in the top 4 awarding bodies in the country and we are proud to …

HSE Inspection – First Class!

We have just had our, once every five years ,inspection from the inspection arm of the HSE. We are, acording to them ,a “first class training organisation” !! Not only is our training first class but we are £100 …