CORE TRAINING
- Passenger Assistant (escort) Training (PATS)
- Disability Awareness
- First Aid - appointed person
- Movement management
- Epilepsy Awareness and Management
- Management of Difficult Behaviour
- Safe & Legal Transportation
SUPERVISORY TRAINING
- Presentation Techniques
- Training & Assessing Staff
- Training & Assessing Drivers
- Risk Assessment & Management
- MiDAS DAT Training
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DRIVER TRAINING
- Learner driving
- Defensive Driving
- Driver Development
- Van & Minibus Driving.
- Emergency Procedures
- MiDAS Driver Training
CONSULTANCY
We will carry out all the functions of an in-house
training department from identifying training needs to delivery and
record keeping.
Where necessary we will source and recruit the services
of other trainers to cover areas of training outside our direct remit.
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ALL OUR COURSES ARE TAILOR MADE TO
SUIT YOUR EXACT NEEDS. SELECT YOUR TOPICS AND EITHER EMAIL OR RING TO
DISCUSS YOUR REQUIREMENTS AND COSTINGS
MiDAS Minibus Driver Awareness Scheme
The On Site Training Company is an approved training agent,
and as such, can either train and assess your drivers in accordance
with the MiDAS requirements or train a small number of your key
personnel to carry out the role of Driver Assessor/Trainer.
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Duration:
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4 days to train Driver Assessor/Trainers
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Numbers:
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Up to 6
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Duration:
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1 day to train drivers. 1½ hrs for driving
assessment
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Numbers:
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Up to 12 for classroom training (1 day). 1 to1 for
driving assessment
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NVQ Level 2 Road Passenger Transport
The latest NVQ for road passenger transport drivers offers
core units common to all drivers with optional units available for
vocational specialisation. Your organisation would be set up as an
approved centre for the delivery of National Vocational Qualifications.
Initially, the On Site Training Company will take small number of staff
through their NVQ with a view later to them gaining their D32 & D33
Awards to enable them to assess the next phase of staff to go through
the scheme.
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Duration:
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Approx 3 months for each candidate
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Numbers:
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5-10 on commencement, increasing thereafter
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PATS Passenger Assistant Training Scheme
Delivered in a cascade format similar to the scheme for
drivers, this is a one-off course of training designed to equip the
passenger assistant with the fundamental training they require to
fulfil their role competently and with optional modules to target their
training needs more specifically.
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Duration:
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4 days to train Passenger Assistant Trainers
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Numbers:
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Up to 6
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See PAT Training below for details of training passenger
assistants directly.
NVQ Level 2 Passenger Support Services
This nationally recognised qualification would be delivered in
the same way as the NVQ offered to Drivers described above.
NVQ Level 2 Customer Services
A qualification that is not closely linked to the role of the
passenger assistant but is recognised in a wider field of employment
than the NVQ in passenger Support Services.
Appointed Persons First Aid (Emergency Aid)
Overview
This course fulfils the requirement for training staff to the level of
an Appointed Person in accordance with the Approved Code of Practice
for the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981. It takes a very
flexible, practical and common-sense approach to basic life support and
dealing with the most common injuries and illnesses the delegate is
likely to encounter. The course will be customised so that the
delegates' working environment will always be taken into account when
considering the management of any situation. Course organisers can be
given the opportunity to select additional course content prior to
commencement.
Aims
- To give guidance on what to do in an emergency
- To acquaint the individual with the basic knowledge and
skills required to administer rudimentary first aid in an emergency
situation.
Objectives
- To recognise and safely manage an emergency situation
- To recognise and treat obvious life-threatening conditions
- Respiratory and cardiac arrest
- Unconsciousness
- Wounds and bleeding
- Identify restrictions or hazards presented by individual
victims or working environments and modify activities accordingly
- To recognise the need to act only within the limit of one's
training and to summon appropriate assistance if required.
Safer Manual Handling
Overview
This is an introduction to manual handling aimed especially at those
people who are involved in the transporting of passengers who require
support. Whilst the content is generic, the course will focus on cases
and circumstances that are specific to the target audience.
e.g.
Assisting passengers with walking difficulties
Safely controlling a fall
Wheelchair handling
Assisting passengers to sit and stand
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Duration:
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The course is designed to take half a day with breaks.
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Numbers:
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up to 12
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Aims
- To assist the individual to reduce or eliminate the risk of
injury to themselves and others when contemplating activities that
involve manual handling
Objectives
- Know employees' responsibilities under Health & Safety
and Manual Handling legislation
- Understand the basic causes of spinal and soft tissue injury
- Identify activities that present manual handling risks
- Carry out assessments of manual handling tasks
- Take appropriate action to eliminate or reduce risk from a
manual handling activity
- Differentiate between good and poor manual handling
technique
- How to report manual handling risks
Managing Challenging Behaviour
Overview
This module is aimed at those people who assist in the transportation
of children and adults who have challenging behaviour. From a general
view of problems that can arise, the session focuses on dealing with
violence and potential violence in confined spaces and inside a motor
vehicle. Advice given regarding the use of force is given from the
facilitator's experience, common practice and in accordance with the
Education Act 1996.
Aims
- To assist the individual to reduce or eliminate the risk of
injury to themselves or others caused by the activity of someone in
their charge with challenging behaviour.
- To reduce or eliminate the potential for an individual to
harm themselves as a result of inappropriate behaviour.
Objectives
- Identify the possibility of inappropriate behaviour
- Identify methods of reducing the risk of inappropriate
behaviour
- Identify techniques that can be used to de-escalate
potentially dangerous situations
- Know what to do if violence occurs
- Know when force may and may not be used
- Know how much force may be used
- Identify appropriate and inappropriate methods of
controlling a violent person
Emergency and Evacuation Procedures
Overview
Designed to equip the staff with an awareness of the dangers involved
in dealing with an emergency incident such as a road traffic accident
or minibus fire. Practice using a minibus and a smoke machine enables
the staff to experience a realistic simulation with role-playing by
other members of the course.
Aims
- The aim of this course is to prepare staff for some of the
difficulties they may encounter and how best to deal with them when
faced with such an emergency.
Objectives
- To identify possible causes of fire in a minibus
- To understand the factors involved in fires
- To know principles of fire prevention
- To identify methods of extinguishing fires
- To know how to check and use a foam fire extinguisher
- To identify hazards and good technique when evacuating a
minibus in the event of an emergency
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Duration:
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1/2 day
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Numbers:
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10-15
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Understanding And Managing Epileptic Seizures
Overview
Ignorance and mystery shroud epilepsy and the associated seizures. This
module sets out to explain the historical and contemporary
understanding of the condition and to describe why seizures occur. The
modern classification of seizures is explained and the action to be
taken on the occurrence of a seizure is taught to the group. Regard is
given to the management of the situation, the seizure and to the person
who has been affected by it.
Aims
- To give the individual the understanding and confidence to
safely manage a situation involving someone who is having, or has had,
a seizure.
- To enable the individual to recognise and correctly treat
someone who is having, or has had, a seizure.
Objectives
- Understand the basic physiology involved in seizures
- Identify the 2 major types of seizure
- Identify the presentation of different seizures
- Correctly manage the various stages of a seizure
- Know when to summon medical assistance
- Understand the major social issues surrounding epilepsy
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minibus driver training, minibus training, manual handling,
first aid,
disability awareness training, appointed person, risk assessment,
wheelchair training, driving assessments, epilepsy awareness, epilepsy
management, disabled passenger, health and safety, emergency aid,
evacuation, minibus evacuation
MiDAS Passenger Assistant Training Scheme
All these topics are delivered by the On Site Training Company
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Module a
Role of the passenger assistant
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1 day
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Module b
Assisting passengers with disabilities
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Module c1
Supervising children and young people with special needs
Or
Module c2
Working with adults who require care and supervision
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Passenger Assistant Trainers course
Enables successful candidates to deliver modules a,b,c1 and c2
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4 days
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Modules recommended by MiDAS and delivered directly by
specialist training providers
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Module d:
Emergency aid
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1/2 day or 1 day
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Module e:
Manual handling
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1/2 day
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Module f:
Safely managing challenging behaviour
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1/2 day
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