Awarding Organisation of The Swimming Teachers’ Association
Posted on 6th January 2021
Following confirmation from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), COVID-secure face-to-face training can continue through the lockdown where it’s sensibly and realistically needed to support an employer’s demand for meeting health and safety provision in a workplace*. The position for delivering first aid training in devolved administrations is currently being sought by the HSE, due…
Posted on 5th November 2020
With England now under strict lockdown rules until 2nd December, what does this mean for training providers operating in education and child-care settings, and in public-facing facilities? Claire Brisbourne, Director at Safety Training Awards has reviewed all the Government’s latest guidance in relation to this, and provides the following guidance for Approved Training Centres delivering…
Posted on 23rd September 2020
Safety Training Awards can confirm that the Regulators are happy to accept certificate extensions, as detailed by the HSE for first aid, for all our other regulated qualifications – this includes swimming teaching, lifeguarding, health and safety and pool plant (see full list here). In all cases, certificates that expired after 16 March 2020 can…
Posted on 9th September 2020
As an official awarding organisation partner for CIMSPA, Safety Training Awards welcomes the announcement that £1.5m training is being made available to retool the sport and physical workforce. This will include funding for STA’s pool plant operator, swimming teaching, open water swimming and lifeguard qualifications as they are all endorsed by CIMSPA against the sector’s…
Posted on 28th August 2020
Safety Training Awards has produced a live ‘Support for Providing Safe and Socially Distanced Training and Assessing for Aquatic Qualifications’ document for Approved Training Centres (ATCs), which will be continually updated in line with the government’s COVID-19 guidance. ATCs planning to re-start face-to-face aquatic training, will be responsible for performing a risk assessment to ensure…
Posted on 23rd August 2020
Following guidance from the Department of Education, Safety Training Awards are able to grant a qualification extension for learners who hold either a Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid or a Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid qualification which is due to expire or has already expired. Due to Coronavirus, if a…
Posted on 20th July 2020
As an international organisation working with international members across 26 countries, STA recently launched three new international unregulated courses for swimming teachers, pool lifeguards and baby and pre-school teachers. Today, STA is adding to this course portfolio, by introducing a new unregulated International Lifesaving Course for Swimming Teachers. The new one-day International Lifesaving Course for…
Posted on 13th July 2020
STA’s new COVID-19 Officer Awareness Training programme is now live – and its FREE! By completing this online programme, you will gain the knowledge needed to provide an auditable and effective COVID-19 process, specifically within the aquatics leisure industry. The programme will show you how to keep auditable records to prove compliance with both public…
Posted on 9th July 2020
STA is over the moon with the government’s announcement today that swimming pools can finally reopen in England – it’s the news we have all been waiting for. Indoor pools in England can reopen on 25th July – two weeks doesn’t give us long to get ready, and we understand that many swim schools and…
Posted on 10th June 2020
Following on from the technical notice that was released on 23rd March regarding 3 month extensions to our suite of lifesaving qualifications, STA are pleased to confirm that this has been extended for a further 3 months, until 30th September. The qualifications the extension applies to are: STA Pool Lifeguard STA Pool Emergency Responder STA…