When you spend enough time around flood water, drysuits, you get quite intimate with the Flood Rescue Concept of Operations and in December 2025 this document has changed for the first time in just over 6 years. We deliver a lot of training that correlates with that document so we were a bit anxious andContinue reading “Same Same but different: What’s Changed in the 2025 Flood Rescue Non-Rescue Module?”
Author Archives: J Leverett
First Aid Trauma & Casualty Care courses
Having sat on various first aid courses and having been a first aid instructor for a number of years it started to feel like we were very much doing the same thing over and over again. Technology was changing, the emergency services were changing, healthcare as a whole was changing. But the ‘first aid course’Continue reading “First Aid Trauma & Casualty Care courses”
New years first aid advice – burns
On New Year’s Eve it’s likely many of us (who aren’t working) will be out celebrating the arrival of 2019, and who can have a New Years celebration without fireworks. (Here’s some more advice on Fireworks) Whether you’re off to a big display, nipping round a friend or family members or letting off a fewContinue reading “New years first aid advice – burns”
Sea Cadet’s Chosin Cup
Every year the Sea Cadets in London hold an “Adventure Training Competition” called the Chosin Cup. This year we supported the event that was hosted in Sussex. We provided medical cover, teamed up with paramedic Emma to run a first aid scenario for the cadets and supplied some water safety cover and risk assessments toContinue reading “Sea Cadet’s Chosin Cup”
RLSS Water Smart Award
Jacob Leverett – Chief Instructor Square Knot. At the annual conference the the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS) announced their new Water Smart Award, a new award developed in line with the Curriculum Swimming outcomes. With the summer months here and the sun well and truly out we’re seeing a spate of water related deaths.Continue reading “RLSS Water Smart Award”
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