First Aid Course Jargon

As with any profession or industry, initials and jargon are commonplace.
Simply speaking, the following may be helpful:

ITC

ITC First Aid Ltd is an expanding, recognised, awarding body, that develops qualifications and approves, supports and verifies the activity of ITC Providers and Centres delivering environment specific, well resourced, tailored first aid training to all sectors.

Like First Aid Training North West, ITC have a hands on approach, caring enough to respond quickly to all of your requirements yet large enough to have the resources to satisfy all regulatory requirements. ITC currently accredits about 200 active Providers and Centres. Providers meet on a regular basis in order to discuss the design of courses, changes in legislation and the potential for improvements.

ITC develops, accredits and verifies qualifications and First Aid Training North West is an approved provider of their courses.

HSE

The Health and Safety Executive

Every working day in Britain at least one person is killed and over six thousand are injured at work. Every year three quarters of a million people take time off work because of what they regard as work related illness. About thirty million workdays are lost as a result. Overall the cost to industry of accidents and ill health is between £4 and £9 billion per year. HSE's job is to tackle this toll of injury, ill health and loss.

HSE is the operational arm of the HSC (Health and Safety Commission) set up to protect the health, safety and welfare of employees and to safeguard others, principally the public, who may be exposed to risk from industry. HSE's mission is to ensure that risks to people's health and safety from work activities are properly controlled.

If First Aiders are needed in your workplace, they must have a qualification that is HSE approved. ITC First Aid courses are HSE approved.

QCA

The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is an executive, non departmental, public body (NDPB) of the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the UK. In England QCA maintains and develops the National Curriculum and associated assessments, tests and examinations.

QCA oversees the work of the awarding bodies in England, to ensure that their administration, marking and awarding procedures run smoothly. The QCA also has responsibility for vocational qualifications in Northern Ireland.

ITC is a recognised QCA Awarding Body.