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About Acorn Health and Safety

Where did Acorn start?

Acorn Health & Safety was founded in 2000, following a successful NHS career where Danny worked as a Training and Development Officer at North Bristol NHS Trust.

Danny’s passion for health and safety training in subjects including first aid, manual handling, fire safety and general safety set the basis of the business. Over the years, Acorn’s training and consultancy services grew to meet the needs of businesses across many specialist areas.

Acorn continued recruiting health and safety consultants and trainers with specialist knowledge in construction, building trades and hospitality, broadening our offering, services and expertise. Please see our industry sectors page for more information.

Today Acorn Health & Safety provides over 60 courses in first aid, fire safety, food safety, manual handling and health and safety as well as a number of specialist courses for the construction and healthcare sectors.  We train over 18,000 people a year, from over 350 businesses throughout Bristol, the South West and all over the UK.

We’ve a staff team of over twenty knowledgeable, dedicated consultants, trainers and administrators ready and willing to answer any questions you may have.

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Why do our customers choose us?

For over 25 years, Acorn has been providing consultancy and training to a wide and varied group of clients from international blue chip companies through to small local businesses.

We don’t just ‘sell’ training and consultancy, well we do, but only after taking the time to ensure that it’s the right fit for your business and staff.  We take time to build relationships with clients and like to get to know you and your business.  Mention coffee and biscuits and you have our attention.

Our team understand that health and safety is challenging for many businesses with often confusing legislation and varying requirements amongst insurers, regulators and purchasers.  Where specialist or additional consultancy services are required on specialist topics such as fire, construction, asbestos, noise, manual handling and legionella, we can also help.

We provide open training courses from our training centre in Warmley conveniently situated between Bristol and Bath with good access to the M4 / M5. Alternatively, all of our courses can be delivered in-house at your premises or other suitable location.

What should you expect from Acorn Health & Safety?

We promise always to provide honest advice and great training. Our team are passionate about safety and are here to help.  Our admin team are friendly, knowledgeable and able to answer most questions.  If they can’t they’ll either put you through to a health and safety consultant or find out the answer and get back to you as soon as they are able.

We are responsive to any enquiries received and always respond to email and phone calls in a timely manner.  We take the time to listen and strive always to get it right.

Have a question? We may have answered it already.

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Trusted by organisations across the South West

“The Emergency First Aid course was helpful specifically using the defibrillator. I found the course good fun.”

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Celador Radio Ashton

“Very competent service helping us see through some red tape, to ensure we understand what it is we must and should do and what other aspects would be good practice”

Hassle Free
Haven Day Centre

“Happy with the advice and support received. Roger is great at what he does and offers very practical advice.”

 

DC
Roland DG UK Ltd

“The most effective manual handling training session I have undertaken.”

DJ
Carmarthen Dialysis Unit

Train the Trainer annual update course: “It was amazing!!! The training room and the trainer were great. It was lots of other professionals on the training (including an OT from South Glos) and it just felt really good! It also helped that they provided a yummy lunch”

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United Response

“I found all of the 12 hour Paediatric First Aid course helpful! It was good to hear all the information and it made me feel more confident. I found Linda extremely clear in her explanations and teachings. The facilities were good and it was organised very well.”

CE
Hambrook Primary School

Client Manual Handling: “Very helpful, knowledgeable trainer who contextualised and adapted training very well when thinking about the needs of our learners. 10/10”

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Weston College

“I just wanted to thank you for arranging the Administration of Medicines to Adults in Care training for us: it was excellent quality and the trainer, Sarah, engaged all team members really well. The staff were actively participating and all seemed to really benefit from the day.”

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Bright Green Light

Administration of Medicines to Children in Schools: “Great – informative and professionally run course. 10/10. Thank you!”

M
Clevedon School

Foundation Level Manual Handling: “Thank you. A really great day. Very enjoyable and informative. 10/10”

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Gloucester City Homes

“The part I found most helpful was learning about the different types of epilepsy and the way to administer the medication.  I feel confident I will know what to look out for now.”

BD
Aspirations

“Health & Safety at our premises has improved considerably over the past 12-18 months with help and support of Roger and Team at Acorn Safety. Roger has given me the confidence o improve many areas of H&S where we needed procedures etc. I would recommend Acorn. 10/10”

MB
Polar Bear Windows

Fire Marshal with Live Fire: “Very good. More interesting than previous training I have done”

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Fidelius

“Attended the Level 3 Paediatric First Aid training: Big thank you to the Acorn trainer, fantastic trainer, passionate, caring & brought the training to life with his experience and personality.”

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Survive

“Each and every part of the Asbestos Awareness course showed how ignorant I was concerning asbestos. I will ensure that work done in our premises will be done and recorded properly.”

JT
St Ursula's Academy

Foundation Level Manual Handling and First Aid at Work:

“We received the above training over two weeks which was much appreciated. Although we have filled in individual feedback forms on the day, I thought I would give some positive feedback with regards to the course itself and both Acorn trainers.
The first aid course was extremely enjoyable. Whilst going through the mandatory information for the course, the Acorn trainer was able to adapt some areas of the course to suit our service needs which was great.
His delivery was excellent and we were laughing whilst learning.
The Manual Handling course was informative, hands-on and very thorough.
The Acorn trainer came across very knowledgeable & confident about this area and delivered the course at exactly the right pace.
Overall feedback from all that attended was positive.
I have recommended Acorn to our Training Manager for further courses throughout GCH”

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Gloucester City Homes

“The First Aid at Work Re-qualification course was helpful in reviewing changes in practice over the last 3 years. The defibrillator training will potentially help more people sooner. The Acorn trainer made everyone feel at ease & the group integrated and engaged quickly”

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The Limes Children's Centre

“The delivery of the IOSH Managing Safely course was perfectly blended between reading and discussion/participation.”

DC
Rolland DG UK Ltd

Asbestos Awareness: “Course contents and delivery was excellent. 10/10”

M
Wellsway School

“The part of the Level 3 Paediatric Fist Aid training I found most helpful was the CPR section and, understanding it in more depth, it’s really clicked this time! It’s given me confidence and solidified my previous knowledge. I love the focus on simplicity, a great presentation in language I understand.”

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KIDS

“The Asbestos Awareness course I found really interesting/fascinating and worrying. I found the Statistics re: Asbestosis, really highlighted the problem & identification of materials containing asbestos was useful for my working environment.”

SN
Avon Archaeology Ltd

“The Administering Medication training was helpful in understanding about EpiPens and how to administer eye drops.”

PB
Appleford School

“I found the Train the Trainer update training excellent and very informative and I found Sarah an excellent trainer”

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South Gloucestershire Council

“The trainer kept my interest all day. I learnt so much more because it was interesting”

SH
South Gloucestershire Council

“Best manual handling I’ve been on so far. Plenty of practice with different equipment and scenarios. 10/10”

LH
Bristol Community Health

“I just wanted to let you know that 10 of our volunteers attended first aid training on Friday 19th May 2017 and we really enjoyed it! The Acorn trainer was a very entertaining trainer who has the ability to make it fun yet still deliver the important content! We all came away feeling confident with our new skills! A huge thank you for accommodating our needs as an organisation, we really appreciate it, and will  definitely be looking into other courses. Acorn deliver.”

LP
South Gloucester Parents & Carers

“Excellent anecdotes, course was entertaining and the trainer had great knowledge”

SBK
Bristol University

“We are very happy with the service that Acorn provide. They are knowledgeable and very helpful especially when it comes to writing new policies or assisting in queries.”

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Nash Partnership

“I have had first aid training and now the IOSH course through Acorn. both courses were great very professional with both trainers being excellent getting the point across in a very relaxed way. Thanks Roger for an enjoyable course. I thought the pace, content and the way in which it was presented was first class. As an added bonus I thought lunch was great”

RW
HH Willis Physics Lab

Fire Marshal with Live Fire: “Trainer was great, really knowledgeable, and the practical exercise was really helpful. 10/10”

K
Arcadia

Next Steps

Prefer to talk about your training and consultancy needs?

Ready to book, or not sure which course you need? You can book online and see the next available dates here. Alternatively, call our friendly team on 0117 958 2070 or email [email protected], and we’ll help you choose the right course and decide between an open course in Bristol or in-house training at your premises.

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