Shaun

Our in-house instructor trainer, brings a broad teaching, instructional and managerial background. This is combined with nearly 30 years of frontline emergency service experience with specialised skills in dynamic emergency risk assessment and management.

Shaun is a qualified First Aid Trainer, a DAN Instructor, and a qualified PADI Staff Instructor with qualifications in excess of 20 specialised dive disciplines; having worked not just in the UK, but in Europe and the Middle East. He is also a qualified Dive Industry Technician and holds the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Professional Trainers Certificate.

Other teaching/instructing experience includes being a qualified Manual Handling Instructor, Breathing Apparatus Instructor, an EFL teacher (since 1990), also a TUC course tutor at UKC, Mid Kent College, West Kent College and Thanet College and the WEA London. Also a Basic Skills Linkup Supporter.

Shaun is the Company's Health and Safety co-ordinator, holding the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health NEBOSH National General Cert.

Bob 

Bob has worked with the emergency services since 1984,  for both the local authority and the Ministry of Defence as well as with the US Air Force and NASA and UK Special Forces.

He has vast experience in all types of fire and first aid training, including emergency incident command, breathing apparatus, hazardous materials, heli-decks, road traffic crash rescue and aircraft crash rescue techniques.

He also has specialised experience in such fields as Risk Assessment, Conflict Management and Physical Restraint. He has worked in the UK and Europe (including the former Yugoslavia).

Bob is a qualified First Aid Instructor, teaching First Aid at Work, Care for Children and Basic First Aid  courses. He is also a Road Traffic Accident Instructor, a Breathing Apparatus Instructor, a Manual Handling Instructor and a Flash Over/Backdraught Instructor,

Bob is the Company's Fire Safety Training co-ordinator.

Karin 

The lynch pin of our effective team, Karin has not only a wealth of teaching experience, but excellent organisational skills to keep everything on track as our Company Secretary.

Karin is a First Aid Instructor, covering Care for Children and Basic First Aid courses (Primary/Secondary Care).

She is also a qualified EFL teacher (since 1989) and a Basic Skills Linkup Supporter.

She is also the Company's Child and Vulnerable Adult Protection co-ordinator, and in her free-time enjoys her role as a Justice of the Peace.

Dawn  has a very broad supervisory and management background , including training and mentoring staff in an office based environments for (amongst others) a Children’s Charity, Kent County Constabulary and Kent Adult Education. She also brings workplace experience in Health & Safety as well as First Aid.

Dawn is a First Aid Instructor, covering First Aid at Work, Care for Children and Basic First Aid courses (Primary/Secondary Care).

Away from work Dawn enjoys reading, walking and scuba diving, in which she holds the rating of Master Scuba Diver.

Chris 

Chris is a City & Guilds Skills Trainer and Assessor and another of our instructors, covering First Aid at Work, Care for Children, Basic First Aid courses (Primary/Secondary Care) as well as our range of fire related courses.

He brings a wealth of experience to the team, including 24 years in the Royal Navy as an aircraft handler, trained in aircraft crash fire-fighting, ship fire-fighting and domestic fire-fighting. He completed his naval career at the Defence Fire Services Establishment at RAF Manston, before changing uniforms to the Police, and then the Prison Service.

Like others in the team, in his spare time Chris also enjoys Scuba diving, holding the Master Scuba Diver rating.