Welcome to Lucid Training
Lucid
Training provides high quality training and consultancy
services in a wide range of health and safety areas, but particularly
laser, LED and
IPL safety. Our aim is to work as a partner to client organisations, train
staff and provide as much, or as little, help as you require through our
expert consultancy services.
For our Laser
Protection Adviser (LPA) or Expert
Medical Practitioner (EMP) services to clinics please click on the
links. Alternatively, use the following link for more information on Healthcare
Commission registration for salons, clinics and surgeries using laser
and IPL based treatment devices.
For information on 'Core of Knowledge', please click
here.
To purchase laser/IPL clinic door safety signs please click
here.
Health and Safety a speciality
Our main areas of work are Health and Safety training and consultancy.
This includes general Health & Safety for a wide range of activities.
We also provide specialist laser
safety and Laser
Protection Adviser (LPA) services for the medical, dental and cosmetic
clinics. In addition our sister company, Lucid Optical Services Ltd, provides
specialist technical training in the lasers, photonics and communications
cabling fields.
Health & Safety - it's about you and those around you
Our principle at Lucid is that you should be implementing health and safety
in order to enhance life for you, your colleagues, clients and the public.
Properly implemented health and safety policies and procedures can be an
asset to a business and not a hindrance. Of course the law insists managers
consider health and safety, but just because it is a legal requirement
it does not need to become an obstacle to efficient business. At Lucid
we believe our expert safety advisers can
help you implement efficient
health and safety policies, processes and procedures so that your business
benefits and is moved forward by Health and Safety rather than being held
back.
Our philosophy is that health and safety is for everyone. You, your colleagues
and the public. Health is a most valuable commodity that we value most
when we do not posses it. By paying attention to our health and safety,
we are healthier, fitter and able to achieve more and not less. Wherever
there has been a serious accident or health has been compromised, there
was a better way to do things that would ultimately have saved time and
money whilst better protecting health and safety.
Our range of health
and safety training courses is designed to meet your requirements,
such that the following topics can be built into a bespoke safety training
course to fit in with the activities of your business:
- safety culture
- working safely (IOSH
safety certificate or safety passport)
- managing safely (IOSH
safety qualification)
- safety behaviour
- manual handling (from 1 hour to 4 days)
- risk assessment & risk management
- asbestos awareness and surveying
- fire safety
- fire risk assessment
- stress awareness
- CDM regulations and awareness
- accident investigation
- safety for senior executives
- safety is a partnership (management, union safety representative, safety
committees etc.)
- display screen assessment
- safe working with contractors
- 'Core of Knowledge'
- laser & IPL safety for staff in medical, cosmetic and dental clinics
- laser safety awareness
- laser safety management
- laser safety classification
- first aid
- health and safety auditing
- 17th Edition Wiring
Regulations + City & Guilds 2382 Qualification
- PAT Testing +
City & Guilds Qualification
Many of these topics are discussed further within other pages of this
website, but please contact us if you have a health and safety issue we
can help you with.
Putting
the Health in 'Health & Safety'
For many people the words 'Health and Safety' immediately conjur images
of accidents and acute injuries being avoided, but the 'Health' aspect
of Health and Safety means that the subject has a much wider scope. This
means that businesses must not just concentrate in those aspects of the
work likely to cause injuries, but must also ensure working practices safe-guard
the health of the employee both now and so far as is feasible later in
life.
This means that all businesses must consider everyday things that employees
do and assess whether they could, or are likely, to result in any injuries
or health issues in the future.
"Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that
wears you out" - Anton Chekhov.
Examples of longer term exposure problems that have resulted in health
issues for workers include: asbestos inhalation; vibration 'white finger';
and more recently repetitive strain injury (RSI). Additional health issues
can arise through the emotional well-being of employees with stress, self
esteem and bullying being possible workplace issues.
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being,
and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." - Heave.
Although there is likely to be a short-term cost to addressing Health
and Safety issues, we believe that properly addressed, with health included,
there are commercial benefits for your business. A happy, healthy workforce
is a more loyal and productive workforce.
Medical & Cosmetic Laser & Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) Treatments
Organisations offering medical or cosmetic treatments using laser or intense
pulsed light (IPL) sources or systems, are a special case for laser safety
in that these devices must clearly be hazardous in that they must have
an effect on biological tissue (skin, eyes or other tissue). A result is
that the Healthcare Commission require clinics using such lasers and IPL
devices to be registered with them, and as part of the requirements for
successful registration clinics must have an appointed and suitable qualified
Laser Protection Advisor (LPA). For more information on clinic,
surgery or salon registration with the Healthcare Commission please
follow this link.
Laser Protection Advisor (LPA) services
Lucid provide Laser
Protection Advisor (LPA) services to medical, dental and cosmetic
clinics in the UK. It is important to note that an LPA needs to be appointed
even if your clinic only has Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) treatment systems
rather than laser based systems. In England all such clinics must register
with the Healthcare Commission, and in Wales with the Care Standards
Inspectorate. Besides fulfilling the role of certificated LPA support,
Lucid will help you with all aspects of the registration process for
your clinic, including providing you with the comprehensive set of Policies
and Procedures that you will need in order to successfully complete the
registration process.
Health
and Safety Consultants & Consultancy
At Lucid we hate to call ourselves 'consultants'. This is simply because
of the reputation consultants have for costing the earth and adding little
or no value. Indeed there are consultants in the health and safety industry
who seem to feel it is their role to place obstacles in the way of the
work being conducted by your business, rather than look for ways work can
be done both safely and efficiently.
At Lucid we prefer to train staff to understand the principles and every
day practice of working safely. Depending on your requirements and those
of your business, we can train staff so consultants are not required, or
we can help with risk assessments, auditing, developing procedures, policies
and basically taking over the administrative burden of managing health
and safety in the workplace.
Contact us, with no obligations and no hard-sell guaranteed, and we'll
see if our consultancy services can help you save time and money. See
more about our consultancy.
Training by health and safety experts
This is important. We have encountered trainers and training
materials that are misleading or wrong. Sometimes the mistakes are minor
and sometimes major, but if you are paying for training you have a right
to expect an expert trainer who understands the subject, and can explain
and answer questions correctly. At Lucid we do this, and our trainers are
suitably qualified in their fields.
How
is Lucid's Health & Safety Training Better?
The purpose of health and safety training should not just
be to tick a box. It should really be about improving health and safety for
those on the course, the people they work with and the public. With legal
requirements and other pressures to demonstrate workers have received health
and safety training, it is easy for some trainers to 'go through the motions'
without engaging the trainees. If the trainees are not engaged by the training,
then they are likely to learn little and change their behaviour even less.
At Lucid we believe in making health and safety training
interesting, enjoyable and relevant. Our courses are delivered by expert
and enthusiastic trainers who engage with the trainees. We believe this is
the most effective way to encourage trainees to learn and adapt their behaviour
to be more health and safety orientated.
Health & Safety Awareness, Knowledge, Qualifications
and Behaviour
With health and safety there are several requirements that
must come together to achieve the ideal working environment free of significant
hazards and risks to health. Of these, arguably the most difficult to change
is behaviour. People who are aware of and understand hazards regularly have
accidents or endanger their health when old habits prove hard to resist.
At Lucid we can raise awareness, teach to a high level of
knowledge on health and safety issues and train people to achieve health
and safety qualifications. We will also influence their behaviour and we
hope improve their working habits. Some will change their behavious for good,
whilst others may need more regular refresher training to ensure they begin
to work more safely and with regard for their health.
Health
and Safety Behaviour Culture
For many, behavious and bad habits are so ingrained that
it will take a sustained effort to change. In these circumstances the whole
organisation may be mobilised to produce a culture of encouraging safe and
healthy working practices and habits. At Lucid we can advise on such techniques
to encourage an appropriate culture and we can provide the training required
to launch such an initiative.
The right initiatives can produce not only an appropriate
health and safety culture, but also motivational and team building results.
If this sounds too good to be true, contact us and find out more.
Health
and Safety - a dry subject or loyalty and team building exercise?
The first reaction of many to the subject of health and
safety is that it is a dry topic especially to be trained in. This need not
be the case, and it is possible for the right health and safety culture within
an organisation to breed a shared responsibility for each other. This can
bring colleagues closer together in a similar way to that in which family
members feel responsibility to each other.
Ironically some team-building exercises and courses can
be counter-productive when any members of the organisation are not included
and there can result an 'us and them' which is certainly not the case with
health and safety training!
Website Resources and site links for more safety training
courses and qualifications
Click
here for information on Laser Safety standards.
Click
here for information on LED Safety, LED Safety training, workshops, seminars & consultancy.
Click here for information
on our LaserBee laser safety software.
Click
here to request a demonstration copy of LaserBee.
Click
here for information on Laser Safety consultancy.
Click
here for information on Laser and IPL Clinic / Salon Registration with
the Healthcare Commission (HCC).
Click here for information on the new City & Guilds
2382 - 17th Edition Wiring Regulations - New for 2008.
Available now: PAT testing
and City & Guilds award to prove competence.
Click here for information on our training
centre, and the Garsdale region.
For information on customised or
bespoke health and safety courses please click here.
For information on technical
authoring or our desk-top
publishing (DTP), printing
and binding services please click on the links.
For Your Amusement: when is life most dangerous?
It is often said by medical professionals that the first
five minutes of life are the most dangerous. Contrary to this we believe
that it is generally proven that the last five minutes of life are the most
dangerous!
Only when the former and the latter coincide is the first
statement true and yet invariably the latter is always true.
This is obviously 'tongue in cheek', but it illustrates
the difficulties that even highly trained people can have in differentiating
between hazards, risks, danger and statistical evidence and the way it is
stated. A good understanding is key to producing appropriate risk assessments
and procedures. At Lucid we are happy to help with this as health and safety
consultancy work, hopefully reducing the numbers of workers whose last five
minutes occur in the work place.
Origins
of Lucid Training - Health and Safety Training and Consultancy
Lucid Training Ltd is a sister company to Lucid
Optical Services Ltd, a specialist communications, fibre optics and
technical training business. Lucid Optical Services developed very successful
Laser Safety training courses and got drawn more into health and safety,
and risk assessment training and consultancy services. With further developments
in Laser safety software and LED and extended source (lamp) safety training
courses, it was decided that a new business covering a wider range of Health
and Safety fields would be appropriate, and hence Lucid Training Ltd was
formed and health and safety experts with a wide range of in-depth knowledge
and expertise were recruited.
