First Aid Training Great Yarmouth
On-Site First Aid Courses in Great Yarmouth – Delivered by NHS Trained Paramedics
Looking for first aid training in Great Yarmouth? Training 999 delivers Ofqual-regulated first aid courses directly to your Great Yarmouth workplace, taught exclusively by NHS-trained paramedic instructors with frontline emergency experience.
As Norfolk’s second-largest town and the hub of the UK’s southern North Sea energy sector, Great Yarmouth is home to a diverse mix of businesses — from offshore energy and wind farm operations at the Outer Harbour to port and logistics firms, food processing plants along the A47 corridor, tourism and hospitality venues on the Golden Mile, and schools and care providers across the borough. Whatever your sector, we bring professional first aid training to your door so your team stays compliant without the disruption of travelling off-site.
All courses are fully updated to the Resuscitation Council UK 2025 Guidelines, implemented from January 2026.
Regulated First Aid Courses Available in Great Yarmouth
We hold Ofqual-regulated centre status, which means every qualification we issue sits on the national Regulated Qualifications Framework. Here is what we can deliver at your Great Yarmouth workplace.
A single-day qualification that equips your staff with core emergency skills — from CPR and defibrillator use to treating burns, bleeding, and choking. Best suited to Great Yarmouth’s lower-risk workplaces: seafront hotels, B&Bs, guest houses, retail shops, offices, and professional services.
The full 3-day First Aid at Work qualification — split into 1 day of guided online learning plus 2 days of practical, face-to-face training led by our paramedic instructors at your site. This is the course the HSE expects in higher-risk environments, and Great Yarmouth has plenty of them.
Great Yarmouth workplaces that typically need FAW:
- Offshore energy contractors and service vessel operators
- Port handling, cargo, and logistics at the Outer Harbour
- Food processing, packaging, and cold storage facilities
- Construction and civil engineering projects
- Amusement parks, leisure complexes, and large holiday parks
- Warehousing and distribution operations along the A47 corridor
- Residential care homes and supported living services
Certificates running out? Our requalification programme renews your team’s FAW status through 1 day online plus 1 day practical. It refreshes core techniques, brings first aiders up to speed on guideline changes, and keeps your Great Yarmouth workplace on the right side of the regulations — with minimal disruption to shifts and rotas.
A Level 3 Ofqual-regulated qualification built specifically for people who work with infants and children. Delivered as a blended course — half online, half hands-on — so your staff can complete the theory around their working day. Meets Ofsted and EYFS requirements for early years settings.
Particularly relevant for Great Yarmouth nurseries and preschools, primary schools, childminders across the borough, holiday park children’s entertainment teams, Haven and Pontins kids’ club staff, swimming instructors, sports coaches, and nannies.
The condensed 1-day version for settings where a full paediatric qualification isn’t mandatory but staff still need to know how to respond if a child is injured or unwell.
The HSE strongly recommends that every qualified first aider completes a refresher session each year between formal requalifications. Our 3-hour practical programme keeps techniques sharp, builds confidence, and ensures your Great Yarmouth first aiders are ready to act when it counts.
Managing Serious Bleeding — Specialist Training for Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth’s industrial and energy sectors mean that serious workplace injuries — including catastrophic blood loss — are a real possibility, not a theoretical one. The HSE’s revised L74 guidance (2024) now makes it clear: if life-threatening bleeding is a foreseeable risk in your workplace, your first aid arrangements must be able to deal with it.
On top of that, the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 — known as Martyn’s Law — places new duties on qualifying public venues to prepare for mass casualty events. With Great Yarmouth’s Pleasure Beach, the Hippodrome Circus, the Marketplace, seafront venues, and large holiday parks all falling within scope, bleed control training is no longer optional for many local businesses.
What Our Bleed Control Training Covers
• Applying a tourniquet correctly and quickly under pressure
• Packing wounds with haemostatic dressings
• Using improvised and commercial bleed control kits
• Recognising when a casualty is going into shock
• Packing wounds with haemostatic dressings
• Using improvised and commercial bleed control kits
• Recognising when a casualty is going into shock
This module can be bolted onto any of our standard first aid courses at no extra course day — it’s integrated into the practical sessions and noted on each learner’s certificate. Get in touch to add it to your booking.
Additional Specialist Courses We Bring to Great Yarmouth
• Anaphylaxis Training — Covers EpiPen, Jext, and Emerade auto-injectors. Vital for schools, nurseries, holiday parks, and any catering or food service business in Great Yarmouth
• Manual Handling Training — A 2-day blended programme for port workers, warehouse staff, care home employees, and anyone who lifts, carries, or moves loads as part of their job
• Basic Life Support & AED Training — A 1-day course for hotel staff, bar and restaurant teams, lifeguards, and anyone who wants CPR and defibrillator confidence without a full first aider qualification
• Forestry First Aid — For agricultural and outdoor workers in rural areas surrounding Great Yarmouth
• FREC 3 — First Response Emergency Care — A nationally recognised pre-hospital care qualification for anyone pursuing a career in ambulance, fire, or coastguard services
• Manual Handling Training — A 2-day blended programme for port workers, warehouse staff, care home employees, and anyone who lifts, carries, or moves loads as part of their job
• Basic Life Support & AED Training — A 1-day course for hotel staff, bar and restaurant teams, lifeguards, and anyone who wants CPR and defibrillator confidence without a full first aider qualification
• Forestry First Aid — For agricultural and outdoor workers in rural areas surrounding Great Yarmouth
• FREC 3 — First Response Emergency Care — A nationally recognised pre-hospital care qualification for anyone pursuing a career in ambulance, fire, or coastguard services
What Makes Training 999 Different in Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth has no shortage of training providers — but most of them send classroom-based instructors who read from a textbook. Here is why businesses across the borough pick us instead:
- Taught by working paramedics, not just instructors — Every session is led by a registered NHS paramedic who responds to 999 calls as part of their regular role. They teach from experience, not just from slides. When they demonstrate how to manage a cardiac arrest or control a major bleed, they have done it for real.
- Your local provider — Based just 6 miles away in Lakenheath, Suffolk, we are closer to Thetford than any other professional first aid training company in the region. No long travel times, no added costs — just fast, reliable service on your doorstep.
- Training happens at your site — We set up at your Great Yarmouth workplace, whether that is a portside office, a factory floor, a school hall, or a hotel conference room. Your staff stay on-site, train in familiar surroundings, and are back to work faster.
- Built around shift patterns — We run sessions on weekdays, evenings, and weekends. For Great Yarmouth's tourism and hospitality businesses with seasonal peaks, and energy firms running offshore rotations, this flexibility is essential.
- Nationally recognised qualifications — Every certificate sits at RQF Level 2 or Level 3, regulated by Ofqual. Accepted by the HSE, Ofsted, insurers, and employers across every sector.
- Less classroom time, same depth — Our blended format moves the theory online so face-to-face time is spent on practical, hands-on skills — the part that actually saves lives.
- Serious injury specialists — We provide catastrophic haemorrhage and bleed control training that most other providers in the Great Yarmouth area simply do not offer. For the energy, manufacturing, and port sectors, this is a genuine differentiator.
Two Qualifications, One Course — Combined Adult & Child First Aid
We offer combined First Aid qualifications that allow you provide First Aid to both adults and Children/infants.
Combined First Aid Courses – Adults and Children
If your Great Yarmouth team works with both adults and children — think holiday parks, schools, leisure centres, or sports clubs — our combined courses let them walk away with two nationally recognised qualifications from a single training programme. No need to book separate dates or pay for two courses.
This is especially popular with Thetford schools, after-school clubs, sports coaches, and any workplace where staff may also care for or interact with children.
• Combined 1-Day Course (EFAW + Emergency Paediatric First Aid)
• Combined 3-Day Course (Full FAW + Full Paediatric First Aid)
• Combined 3-Day Course (Full FAW + Full Paediatric First Aid)
Towns and Villages We Serve Around Great Yarmouth
Our trainers cover the whole of the Great Yarmouth borough and surrounding east Norfolk and north Suffolk coast, including Gorleston-on-Sea, Caister-on-Sea, Bradwell, Hemsby, Winterton-on-Sea, Hopton-on-Sea, Acle, Loddon, Beccles, Lowestoft, and the wider Waveney area.
If your business is based along the east Norfolk or north Suffolk coast and you are not sure whether we cover your location — we almost certainly do. Drop us a message and we will confirm.
First Aid Training Across Norfolk and East Anglia
Great Yarmouth is part of our wider regional coverage. We also run courses in Norfolk, Norwich, King’s Lynn, Thetford, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire.
Your Legal Obligations as a Great Yarmouth Employer
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 apply to every business in Great Yarmouth regardless of size or sector. In practice, this means you need to:
• Complete a First Aid Needs Assessment that reflects the specific hazards in your workplace
• Have enough qualified first aiders on each shift — not just during office hours
• Make sure those qualifications stay in date and that annual refreshers are scheduled
• Keep adequate first aid supplies and equipment accessible to all staff
• Have enough qualified first aiders on each shift — not just during office hours
• Make sure those qualifications stay in date and that annual refreshers are scheduled
• Keep adequate first aid supplies and equipment accessible to all staff
For many Great Yarmouth employers in energy, port, manufacturing, and food processing, the risk profile means the 1-day EFAW is not enough — the full 3-day FAW qualification is what the HSE will expect to see. The updated L74 guidance also means your first aid provision may now need to include life-threatening bleeding management.
Not sure what your Great Yarmouth business actually requires? We provide a free, no-obligation first aid needs assessment. Get in touch and we will walk you through it.
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