02 Feb 2019

Coaching, Fire Safety, Health and Safety, Learning, Teaching, Training, Virtual Reality, VR, Wellbeing 0 Comment
Certified Skills were recently featured in IOSH Magazine As this article is published, in early 2019, it is undeniable that Virtual Reality is disrupting the training and skills development industry, worldwide. In this article, Bridget Leathley delves in to the current capabilities of Virtual Reality and the applications for Health and Safety Training. Certified Skills was honoured t...
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01 Nov 2018

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Want to know if VR is truly effective in training? Here's the science: As this article is published, in 2018, it is undeniable that Virtual Reality is disrupting the training and skills development industry worldwide. Much has been made in the world's press in the last couple of months of the high profile story of Walmart, the world's largest company, with 2.3 MILLION employees, rolling...
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28 Jul 2018

Coaching, Fire Safety, Health and Safety, Learning, Teaching, Training, Virtual Reality, VR, Wellbeing 0 Comment
Virtual Reality has arrived! Whether it is in the gaming world, the theme park experience world or any other world out there. It’s here! We can see how this game changing tech will be disrupting all sorts of sectors, but none more so than the education and training sector, which, to us, holds the potential to be the most impactful to humankind out of them all!   Why is t...
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08 Jul 2018

Ergonomics, First Aid, Health and Safety, Learning, Manual Handling, Teaching, Training, Wellbeing 0 Comment
Virtual Reality, the new and exciting trend that is sweeping the world, is being applied in some very interesting ways. Most interesting (to us) is the applications for Virtual Reality in the training and skills development world, specifically in Health and Safety Training. Following reviews of several programmes and, the development and delivery of a Fire Safety programme, we wanted...
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19 Feb 2018

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"The UK is facing a mental health challenge at work that is much larger than we had thought. Not only is there a big human cost of poor mental health at work, there are also knock on impacts for society, the economy and Government. Employers are losing billions of pounds because employers are less productive, less effective, or off sick.” This is a direct quotation from Thriving at Wo...
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16 Feb 2018

Ergonomics, First Aid, Health and Safety, Learning, Manual Handling, Teaching, Training, Wellbeing 0 Comment
Ergonomics and Human factors, is described as the practice of designing products, systems, or processes to take full account of the interaction between them and the people who use or operate them. Last year, the Health and Safety Executive published figures stating that there were just over half a million people suffering from Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMSDs) throughout th...
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15 Feb 2018

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Download our FREE Organisational Health & Safety Management System and get the 7 steps to setting up, or fine tuning your management system.   This tool will provide you with the 7 crucial steps to set up, maintain, and continuously improve your Health and Safety Management System. Easy to understand and implement, follow these steps to set your system up, or simply ru...
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13 Feb 2018

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Virtual Reality is coming! This is the long prophesied future that, it seems, is finally being fulfilled. With the acquisition of Oculus, the manufacturers of the VR Headset Oculus Rift, by Facebook in 2014 for $2bn, it was widely accepted that VR is to become part of our every day lives. Now with reports of the  US women's ski team using VR to prepare for the Winter Olympics, as well as...
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05 Jul 2017

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Throughout our work with health and safety officers, advisers, managers and directors, in all types of organisations, there is one thing that is clear. That is, that an excellent Health and Safety culture can only be achieved by an organisation that is proactive in the management of safety and truly committed to improving upon the status quo. There are numerous studies into various o...
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13 Jun 2017

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Learning, the acquisition of knowledge or skills, is a complex and very nuanced process. Throughout the education and training sectors, this process varies significantly in methodology and even more so in to effectiveness. One widely accepted method of increasing training effectiveness, is the process of tailoring the delivery methods to suit the audiences learning styles, by implemen...
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