Optimum Training Limited

First Aid & Safety Training

On 7th March 1994, a plan became reality. Founder & MD, Amanda Clarke knew exactly what she had wanted to create - a First Aid training company that would serve its clients needs with the most modern up to date techniques and learning aids, making it fun, inspirational and easy to learn.

By incorporating super learning strategies, management techniques, injecting fun and group activities, trainers built up the participant's confidence and the participants began to enjoy their learning. Client companies learned to rely on OPTIMUM to provide professional trainers, who turned up on time, every time. Trainers who were well informed about the company and got on with the job. Client companies began to believe they could have the training they wanted at a time to suit their business needs, not the suppliers needs and have training delivered that was aligned with their own training standards. The companies began to realise just how easy it was to book courses and began to see the connection between the enjoyable internal management training they did and the First Aid training.

Within six months of starting the business, the programmes captured the attention of the UK's two largest restaurant chains that are still clients of the company today. Loyalty was quickly established and clients were reassured by OPTIMUM's presence, as they no longer had to worry whether a trainer would turn up on time. At last, the administration staff could have a worry free night and sleep well before a first aid course started.

With comments like "fantastic, now I really know how to help someone" and "of all the first aid courses I have ever done, this is the best! Great fun! ", we knew we had something special. The company became synonymous with fun, inspirational and easy to learn first aid.

Unique points such as a money back guarantee, a blood phobia cure and casualty focused approach (rather than procedure driven) first aid provide us with a strong and loyal client base that trusts us to deliver the programmes to exact standards of professionalism. Who else could boast a ten-year track record with McDonalds Restaurants?

OPTIMUM do much more than offer a First Aid or Health & Safety course instead, we offer opportunities. The opportunity to experience a different way to learn. An opportunity to protect the business through the education, inspiration and motivation of the company's lifesavers. An opportunity for participants to feel confident, believe in themselves, their skills and their value in an emergency situation. An opportunity to help save someone's life, and realise how easy it is to help someone who is injured or distressed.

Everyone has the potential to learn first aid and health & safety. It's an opportunity to give others their life back. It's an opportunity open to everyone.