Amanda pearson

Why Solutions?

Solutions Training & Advisory Ltd has been providing sector bespoke accredited health and safety training solutions to organisations UK-wide since 1994.

Our Success:

Emergency services train the trainer outcome - Five months after delivering our Moving People (moving and handling) train the trainer programme to Kent Fire and Rescue Services they reported:

• Musculoskeletal injuries have reduced from 59 to 27 – 54% decrease
• Manual Handling injuries have reduced from 14 to 8 - 43% decrease
• Patient Handling injuries have reduced from 18 to 2 - 89% decrease

eLearning/online/blended learning solution - We saved a customer in the Ambulance sector £350,000 in one year by implementing e-learning as part of their training strategy.

Manufacturing & Logistics - Our conflict resolution training successfully reduced absenteeism for a rail network customer by 84% over a year.

Health & Social Care - By implementing our care sector-specific moving and handling training programme we reduced our customer's level of absenteeism and reported manual handling incidents by 38% in one year

Special Education – We have developed bespoke training solutions for this sector and have on average saved schools around £700 a day in training costs.

Our team and history:

A successful business, established in 1994 by Paul Meek a former Operations Director of an ambulance service. Throughout Paul's career, he was exposed daily to the consequences of poorly managed risks, and this is what spurred Paul to establish Solutions Training, he wanted to bridge the visible but avoidable gaps in risk management and in particular health & safety education and the development of the equipment used to aid safer transportation of people.

Our team are all members of the “National Back Exchange” and have been contributors to various working groups on developing good practice since 1995, including research into “what constitutes effective moving and handling training” performed by the Ergonomics Department at Loughborough University and in partnership developed topic-related awards at Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 which are on the regulated qualifications framework.

We have successfully designed a wide range of training programmes to assist organisations with managing risk effectively.   

Paul and his team's continued vision of improvement to managing risk by developing people and his operational experience has helped many companies and individuals improve their knowledge and technical skills, which has proven to reduce risk in the workplace.

Being at the forefront of its specialist subjects we have designed and manufactured specialist manual handling equipment to aid moving and handling tasks, including our unique bariatric carry sheet used by ambulance trusts UK Wide, click here to view our website - https://movingandhandling.equipment/ 

Our Sector Experience:

Our solutions range from sector-specific train the trainer and trainer update/refresher programmes, video conferencing practical skills training, accessing our unique online/e-learning courses, tutor-led group-based classroom training, or through “blended learning”, a mix of both online and face-to-face training. We can deliver training at our customer's site, a mutually agreed venue, or your staff can attend one of our nationwide open courses which are attended by like-minded industry professionals.

We deliver health & safety training solutions to all industry sectors however, we are renowned to be the preferred training partner, offering bespoke solutions to the below key sectors:

• Most ambulance trusts UK-wide
• The fire services
• The health & social care sector
• Special education (SEN schools)
• Transport sector

Our longevity has provided us with multiple case studies within these sectors, all of which demonstrate how our solutions and training interventions have reduced injury and absenteeism linked to work-based conflict/violence and musculoskeletal injuries.

Click on the your sector above to view the full scope of the training solutions we offer that are bespoke to your sector.

Our Training Solutions:

We offer educationally accredited training qualifications ranging from Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 awards, including Moving & Handling, Conflict Resolution, Fire Warden, and First Aid, all of which are on the QNUK-regulated qualifications framework.

Our most popular training topics include (but not limited to):

• Moving & Handling (manual, people, and patient handling, moving people, moving patients, lifting/transferring of pupils)
• Conflict Resolution & Preventing Violence Training (breakaway/disengagement/holding skills & techniques)
• First Aid (resuscitation, basic life support, etc)
• Fire Warden
• Falls Training
• Stroke Training (ASLS -Advanced Stroke Life Support)
• Terrorism Training (run hide and tell)
• Infection Control

We are proud to boast that our online courses for Conflict Resolution, Moving & Handling, and Advanced Stroke Life Support have been consistently rated as being ‘extremely effective’ and praised for being the most bespoke e-learning courses in the sectors they have been developed for. Each course has been designed with educational rigor by world-class instructional designers.