Hostile Environments Awareness Training in Ukraine

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We have been running Hostile Environments Awareness Training in Ukraine since late 2019, with a team leaving Kyiv in February of this year. However, we have had teams back in Ukraine running HEAT courses three times since then, the most recent finishing in early December. The content of our more typical HEAT courses [details here] were adapted to meet each specific client group’s needs, but also to reflect the current context of the war which changed and continues to change. Providing a synthetic environment in which people can safely rehearse their responses is what we do, but adaptions were required, not just because of the weather. Hostile environments awareness training in the snow, taken in Kyiv, Ukraine in December 2022. If 80% of war or war reporting is logistics, then you’ll understand that this has been a large part of each of these trips. Getting our team, and equipment, into and out of Ukraine presented some challenges, and the attributes of a good...
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Technology and medicine

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The benefits of technology to health care are many and varied, but the obvious uses of scans and x-rays isn't the focus of this post. On the BBC News website a story was recently posted about the use of a mobile phone app to raise awareness of the damage alcohol can have on the body. The original article can be found here. The concept of being able to place medical information and educational content directly into the hands [and therefore potentially into the minds] of the public, is something which can only grow. With the mobile phone market expanding rapidly and the increasing proportion of smart phones, the medical community must embrace this avenue of promoting information and good practice, but also take advantage of this method of allowing the community to access services and to some degree educate itself. For many people their mobile phone is one of the first things they check when leaving their house, some feel almost...
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First Aid at Work training

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First aid training is often a requirement of even the smallest of workplaces, which must make arrangements for action in event of an emergency, provide a first aid kit and possibly provide trained workplace first aiders. The Health and Safety Executive have recently clarified the progress towards change of the regulation of workplace first aid training. Current HSE approval will remain till October 2013 with further information being released in due course. As an HSE approved first aid training provider Lazarus Training provides a number of workplace first aid courses, all run in a highly practical and interactive way, by training staff with relevant qualifications and experience. All our first aid courses are aimed at making you confident to provide first aid at work when required. First aid at Work training is ideal for? It is aimed at workplaces with higher numbers of staff and risk. The range of topics [shown below] mean this is an ideal first aid qualification for many workplaces such...
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