MiJodsR2BlinkinTite
Well-Known Member
Don't know if anyone else is feeling my pain.
As anyone who's been on a First Aid Course knows, the certification lasts for three years, after which you have to re-do the whole thing again and/or take a refresher.
Which is fine if you have to have a First Aid course as part of your job, and the firm pays, but if like me you're self employed, it is quite a rude awakening to realise just how expensive these courses have got!
I'm a fitness/dance teacher, and whilst my regulatory body makes no insistence (strangely, and wrongly in my view) that we are First Aid trained, I have always chosen to do a first aid cert in case of any eventuality, plus as I'm a YO in my "other job" it does make perfect sense anyway.
BUT............ by golly, after looking on-line for a local course, the cheapest I can find for a simple one-day is over £100!!!
Not that it isn't a good investment, because these skills are literally life-saving.
But: oh dear, this is a lot of money!!! And my additional gripe is that they keep changing the methods used for CPR, so every single time you have to re-learn something different.
My cynical mind suspects that this is a deliberate thing to make you have to keep coming back, tho' I realise that the International Resusitation Council are always looking at the whole resusitation thing and finding out the best practice etc/what works worldwide, what doesn't, and I do realise that they need to keep the whole thing up to date and current, but surely they could issue certificates for five years instead of three? I remember being on a course just before they were changing the whole way of teaching/practising CPR (yet again), and the instructors had all learnt the new way, but because of the date of our test, they were having to teach us, and examine us, in the old way!!!! Absolutely daft.
So am just wondering if any other self-employed bods out there are feeling my pain? £100 plus is a helluva lot of money, to me anyway.
As anyone who's been on a First Aid Course knows, the certification lasts for three years, after which you have to re-do the whole thing again and/or take a refresher.
Which is fine if you have to have a First Aid course as part of your job, and the firm pays, but if like me you're self employed, it is quite a rude awakening to realise just how expensive these courses have got!
I'm a fitness/dance teacher, and whilst my regulatory body makes no insistence (strangely, and wrongly in my view) that we are First Aid trained, I have always chosen to do a first aid cert in case of any eventuality, plus as I'm a YO in my "other job" it does make perfect sense anyway.
BUT............ by golly, after looking on-line for a local course, the cheapest I can find for a simple one-day is over £100!!!
Not that it isn't a good investment, because these skills are literally life-saving.
But: oh dear, this is a lot of money!!! And my additional gripe is that they keep changing the methods used for CPR, so every single time you have to re-learn something different.
My cynical mind suspects that this is a deliberate thing to make you have to keep coming back, tho' I realise that the International Resusitation Council are always looking at the whole resusitation thing and finding out the best practice etc/what works worldwide, what doesn't, and I do realise that they need to keep the whole thing up to date and current, but surely they could issue certificates for five years instead of three? I remember being on a course just before they were changing the whole way of teaching/practising CPR (yet again), and the instructors had all learnt the new way, but because of the date of our test, they were having to teach us, and examine us, in the old way!!!! Absolutely daft.
So am just wondering if any other self-employed bods out there are feeling my pain? £100 plus is a helluva lot of money, to me anyway.
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