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Unfortunately we have been seeing a greater demand being placed on existing first aiders due to poor ambulance response times. The ambulance service has been under great amount of pressure and this demand will only raise with the up coming winter pressures. At BLS we...
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This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week is focusing on the way stress impacts our lives. As part of this, Mind’s major new survey of almost 44,000 employees, has found that almost half (48 per cent) had experienced poor mental health, such as stress, low...
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Martin-Baker fined £1.1m for Red Arrows pilot’s fatal ejection seat failure 23 February 2018 Ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker Aircraft Company has been fined £1.1m over the death of a Red Arrows pilot who was propelled into the air and plunged 67 m. Flight...
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We are pleased to announce that BLS Safety and Training have become endorsed learning provider for Norfolk and Suffolk Care Support Ltd, a body that provides support to the acre industry. We are proud to be part of a fantastic body who provide support to the care...
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A boy of ten saved his brother’s life using first-aid skills he learned on a school visit to a hospital just days before. Louis Edwards was in his bedroom watching a video with his brothers Bradley, eight, and three-year-old Jake, when the toddler swallowed a...
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The Metropolitan police handled 115,000 calls concerning mental health in the last year, up 33% from 2011-12. Britain’s biggest police force received a phone call relating to mental health every five minutes last year, an escalating level of demand caused by NHS...
