Organising through Health & Safety/ Mental Health First Aid

In the Vale of Glamorgan we have now completed 2 out of 3 days of our Organising through Health and Safety course. By the end of day 3 all participants will have achieved a Health and Safety at work certificate and a Youth Mental Health First Aid certificate. Ten members from the Vale have taken the course and we hope all of them will go on to complete the full 5 day Health and Safety training, 3 of them have already indicated that they would like to and have already taken on H & S roles in their schools and the district. This is a very important and popular course and we need far more H & S reps who are trained to deal with the workload crisis in our schools. The intention is to roll the course out around Wales.

The outline of the course is as follows:
Day 1:-
Morning – Participants undertook an online module entitled Health and Safety at work followed by a summing up by Gareth Lloyd of all the issues covered
Afternoon – Youth Mental Health First Aid delivered by Beth Roberts

Day 2:-
Morning – Workload, stress and mental health problems in teachers delivered by Mairead Canavan and Gareth Lloyd
Afternoon – Mental Health First Aid delivered by Beth Roberts

Day 3:-
Morning – Youth Mental Health First Aid delivered by Beth Roberts
Afternoon – Youth Mental Health First Aid delivered by Beth Roberts