Trainer Profile – Carl Davies
Carl is the lead trainer and founder of Kent Safety Training.
Having served for over 17 years in the Aviation Fire & Rescue Service, 12 of those also served with his Local Fire Service, Carl brings a wealth of Risk Management and instructional experience to the company.
His qualities lie in his relaxed and professional approach to training and his ability to engage with his students to get the most out of each and every training session.
Carl is passionate about training and believes that every training session must meet the need of the student, rather than just to tick a box in a training folder.
The following qualifications are held by Carl:
First Aid Instructor (approved ambulance service trainer)
Plus many years of front line experience in the emergency services dealing with all types of incidents from fire alarms to a major incidents, involving hundreds of casualties.
Trainer Profile – Cheryl Parkes
Cheryl has been a registered nurse since 2001 and has many years experience before that working in both nursing, residential homes as well as Children's day nursery's.
Originally trained as a paediatric nurse in the past has provided first aid and CPR training to children as young as 5 years old, so age really is no barrier! Cheryl has a background of working for a Kent based charity for people with a visual impairment and has successfully taught CPR to people with little or no sight.
The following qualifications are held by Cheryl:
Cheryl has held some important career positions including a prestigious post at Great Ormond Street Hospital where she worked for 12 months on the children's cancer unit. Her next move saw her working at Guys Hospital on the children's cardiac ward, very quickly they noticed her potential and she was offered a promotion to St Thomas general children's ward. Here she ran the ward, was responsible for teaching and assessing junior staff and nursing students. Cheryl was even featured on BBC's City Hospital on a number of occasions.
Cheryl is ideally suited to working with Kent Safety Training as she shares our passion for teaching and her motto is: No experience is wasted!
Kent Safety Training also use carefully selected freelance trainers, when required, who are chosen from colleagues in the Fire and Ambulance Services, holding similar qualities and qualifications.
Kent Safety Training courses meet and exceed the standards set out in the following legislation:
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
(First-Aid) Regulations 1981
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order