About Solutions Training & Advisory Ltd

Who are we?

Solutions Training & Advisory Ltd has been providing sector bespoke accredited health and safety training solutions to organisations UK-wide since 1994.

Success Stories:

Emergency services train the trainer Level 3 outcome - Five months after our Moving People (moving and handling) train the trainer programme to Kent Fire and Rescue Services:

- Musculoskeletal injuries decreased by 54%
- Manual Handling injuries decreased by 43%
- Patient Handling injuries decreased by 89%

Health & Social Care - A customer reduced their level of absenteeism and reported manual handling incidents by 38% in one year following training delivered by Solutions.

Our blended learning solution (a mix of online theory training and classroom based practical skills training) also provided the customer with significant cost savings.

eLearning/online/blended learning solution - We saved a customer in the Ambulance sector £350,000 in one year by implementing e-learning as part of their training strategy.

Our sector-specific e-learning theory courses teach the required underpinning knowledge of it topic and save around half a day of face-to-face training.

Special Education – We have developed bespoke training solutions for this sector and have on average, saved schools around £700 a day in training costs.

Not all schools require costly training. We offer schools access to our People Moving People online theory course accompanied by video skills training.

Our Sector Experience

Our solutions range from sector-specific train the trainer and trainer update programmes, video conferencing practical skills training, accessing our unique online/e-learning courses, tutor-led group-based classroom training, or through “blended learning”, a mix of online and face-to-face. We can deliver training at our customer's site, a mutually agreed venue, or you can attend a nationwide open course which are attended by like-minded industry professionals.

We deliver training solutions to all industry sectors, however, we are renowned to be the preferred training partner, offering bespoke solutions to the below key sectors:

Our longevity has provided us with multiple case studies within these sectors, all of which demonstrate how our solutions and training interventions have reduced injury and absenteeism linked to work-based conflict/violence and musculoskeletal injuries.

Click on the your sector above to view the full scope of the training solutions we offer.

Our Team and History

A successful business, established in 1994 by Paul Meek a former Operations Director of an ambulance service. Throughout Paul's career, he was exposed daily to the consequences of poorly managed risks, and this is what spurred Paul to establish Solutions Training, he wanted to bridge the visible but avoidable gaps in risk management and in particular health & safety education and the development of the equipment used to aid safer transportation of people.

Our team are all members of the “National Back Exchange” and have been contributors to various working groups on developing good practice since 1995, including research into “what constitutes effective moving and handling training” performed by the Ergonomics Department at Loughborough University and in partnership developed topic-related awards at Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4 which are on the regulated qualifications framework.

We have successfully designed a wide range of training programmes to assist organisations with managing risk effectively.

Paul and his team's continued vision of improvement to managing risk by developing people and his operational experience has helped many companies and individuals improve their knowledge and technical skills, which has proven to reduce risk in the workplace.

Our Training Solutions

We offer educationally accredited training qualifications ranging from Level 1, 2, 3, and 4 awards, including Moving & Handling, Conflict Resolution, Fire Warden, and First Aid, all of which are on the QNUK-regulated qualifications framework.

Our online courses for Conflict Resolution, Moving & Handling, and Advanced Stroke Life Support have been consistently rated as being ‘extremely effective’ and praised for being the most bespoke e-learning courses in the sectors they have been developed for. Each course has been designed with educational rigor by world-class instructional designers.

Click on our e-learning page to view demos of our online theory courses. e-learning

At the request of our customers, we have developed and filmed sector bespoke technique training videos, including, Disengagement/breakaway/holding techniques, Pre-hospital moving and handling techniques bespoke to the emergency services, and Moving and handling techniques bespoke to the health and social care and special education sector.

Our most popular training topics include (but not limited to):