History
Acorn Health and Safety Ltd is an established independent provider of health and safety training, consultancy and advice founded in 1999.
As our business has grown and developed so has the range of training opportunities that we are able to offer our customers. We provide a comprehensive range of first aid, manual handling, fire and general health and safety training courses and pride ourselves in offering flexible and adaptable training solutions designed to meet the needs of both organisations and their staff teams.
We are members of Business Link,
Business West and the South Gloucestershire Chamber of Commerce and work with a variety of organisations from small businesses
to large national companies throughout the South West and beyond.
We provide health and safety advice and specialist consultancy to a variety of small
to medium size enterprises on topics such as safety policies, risk assessment and accident investigation.
Finally we are committed to providing a high quality of customer service both prior to, during and after training or consultancy. Should you have any questions, at anytime please contact us.
We look forward to working with you.
Staff
Danny Street
Danny is the co-director of the business and worked in both retailing and the NHS before establishing Acorn Health and Safety in 1999. He takes the lead role in health and safety training and consultancy together with moving and handling.
Sarah Street
Sarah is also a co-director of the business and is a registered nurse with particular experience in Intensive Care. Sarah provides input into both first aid, defibrillation, and moving and handling training.
Adrienne Cox
Adrienne (Did) is one of our moving and handling consultants. She
has worked for many years in the NHS as a district nursing sister and more recently a full time moving and handling trainer based in South Wales.
Did's main areas of expertise include training and risk assessment
Tony Dineen
Tony is our fire safety trainer taking the lead in developing and
delivering a variety of fire related course programmes, he also instructs on first aid courses. Tony is also our business development manager.
Nigel Braybrooke
Nigel served as a Petty Officer (Catering) with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and as a Constable with Avon and Somerset Police before moving into Hospitality Management where he worked for a number of the larger hotel groups before becoming Food Production Manager at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
Nigel became involved in full time education as an Assistant College Lecturer in Food Safety as well as an Instructor in First Aid and related subjects.
John Holmes - John has a background in retailing and the residential care sector and supports us as both a consultant and trainer. John's specialist topics include fire, food hygiene and infection control, as well as health and safety.
Adele Brown - Adele qualified and practiced as an enforcing Environmental Health Officer (specializing in food and health & safety) before working in the NHS. Her areas of interest include the food industry, retail, offices, healthcare and personal safety/ security.
Paul Dineen - Paul was a senior Fire Officer with South Wales Fire Service, prior to working as a private consultant. He specialises in fire safety risk assessment in the UK and for major tour companies worldwide. Paul also provides fire safety advice and planning for healthcare trusts, residential care premises, schools, factories and commercial premises.
Paul is a Graduate of the Institution of Fire Engineers and a PAS79 2005: Accredited Fire Safety Risk Assessor
Support Staff
Carol Hiscocks - Carol is our assistant office administrator who also works part time. Carol joined us in March 2004 following a career break, prior to that she worked in
personnel. Carol supports the day to day office administration and customer contact.
Vision
From small acorns...
We have certainly progressed and developed considerably as a business during the last five years thanks to both our customers and the commitment of our staff team.
The large old and wise oak...
Someway off yet, however the acorn has evolved into something quite different in
five years. Perhaps ‘’Sapling Safety’’ would be more apt at this time, in
another year or two perhaps ‘’Tree Training and Safety Consultancy’’.
Whatever your thoughts on trees we as a company are committed to growth, development and expansion.
We will never lose site of our roots and no matter how we grow in the future we will always be committed to offering practical solutions and quality reasonably priced training and consultancy.
Examples of Customers
Our customer data base is quite varied. We work with numerous organisations throughout the South West of England from small developing SME's through to large national companies. Our customer portfolio includes: -
- SERCO
- North Somerset Council
- BANES Social Services
- North Somerset Primary Care Trust
- RNID
- Bristol City Council
- Constellation Europe
- Frydays Fish and Chip Shop, Littledean
Benefits to Customers of Expertise Across a Range of Subjects
Jack of all trades master of none? This was one of our main concerns as we started to develop a rapidly expanding course portfolio. Would we simply be jumping on the band wagon, offering cut price training and saying yes to everything or could we really offer a total commitment to quality?
A Primary Care Trust approached us (on recommendation) in 2001 requesting information of first aid and moving and handling training, we quoted and were contracted to provide a series of courses over a 12 month period&...
In 2003 the same Primary Care Trust was looking for a provider for a number of other courses, we quoted and were once again contracted to provide them...
In 2004 we now provide the Primary Care Trust with a comprehensive range of health and safety training and consultancy. This includes
- Food hygiene
- Health & Safety for senior managers
- AED, BLS and First Aid training
- Fire safety and risk assessment training
- Infection control
- Manual handling training and consultancy
Benefits to customer...
- A fixed daily rate for all courses
- A single point of contact for general administration
- A provider who really knows and understands their business
- A single point of contact for all course bookings
- A single point of contact for all finance enquiries
- An honest, quality and reliable provider
Quality Assurance
We are committed to providing quality, reasonably priced training,
development and consultancy. From an initial enquiry through to the completion
of a contract our aim is simply to meet the needs and expectation of our
customers.
To facilitate this we have developed a number of procedures designed to measure,
monitor and improve our performance. These include: -
- Course booking and general administration
- Course evaluation and customer feedback forms
- Internal and independent monitoring of our course tutors
- Regular communication with our customers
Business Referral Network
Acorn Safety are proud to be members of BNI Bristol Compton, a Bristol based professional business networking organisation
If you would like to find out more about our meetings Click here to visit www.bni-bristolcompton.com website.
Contact Details
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Acorn Health and Safety Ltd
Tower Lane Business Park
Tower Lane
Warmley
Bristol
BS30 8XT
Tel - 0845 257 1231
Fax - 0845 257 1232
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Email - info@acornsafety.co.uk
Web - www.acornsafety.co.uk
Office hours Monday - Friday: 0900 - 1700
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