FIRST AID TRAINING IN DEVON & THE SOUTH WEST

First Aid Training at Your Workplace

Professional first aid training for businesses and organisations across Devon, Cornwall and the South West. Practical, engaging courses delivered at your premises, tailored to your team’s needs.

Specialist & Remote Medical Training

Training for film and TV crews, humanitarian organisations, security teams and personnel working in remote or higher-risk environments.

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First Aid Training for Your Organisation

Arranging first aid training for your team should be straightforward. Optimal First Aid delivers practical, professional training at your workplace, helping you minimise disruption while meeting your organisation’s training needs.

From workplace and paediatric first aid to fire safety, manual handling and specialist medical training, we provide flexible group courses tailored to your requirements.

ON-SITE GROUP TRAINING

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Trusted Across the South West and Beyond

Optimal First Aid provides professional, practical first aid training and workplace safety courses for businesses, schools and organisations across Devon, Cornwall and the wider South West.

We specialise in on-site first aid training, delivering courses at your premises to minimise disruption and reduce staff time away from work.

Our experienced instructors bring operational knowledge and real-world experience into the classroom, using practical exercises and realistic scenarios to develop the confidence and skills needed when emergencies happen.

Why Choose Optimal First Aid?

Practical, experience-led training delivered by knowledgeable instructors at your workplace. Flexible group courses tailored to your organisation's needs.

Real-World Operational Experience

Our training draws on experience from the Armed Forces, emergency response and challenging operational environments. We focus on developing practical skills that learners can apply when an emergency happens.

  • Operationally informed instruction
  • Realistic emergency scenarios
  • Practical skills, not just theory

Training at Your Workplace

We deliver first aid and workplace safety courses at your premises, making it easier to train teams together while reducing travel, disruption and time away from work.

  • On-site group training
  • Flexible dates and locations
  • Courses for businesses and organisations

Recognised Qualifications & Standards

From workplace first aid to Qualsafe-regulated pre-hospital qualifications, we provide training suited to different professional responsibilities and operational requirements.

  • Qualsafe-regulated options
  • Workplace and paediatric qualifications
  • FREC 3, FREC 4 and ILS training

Specialist & High-Risk Training

Our expertise extends beyond conventional workplace first aid. We support organisations operating outdoors, in remote locations and in environments where access to emergency medical assistance may be delayed.

  • Outdoor and forestry first aid
  • Remote locations and production crews
  • Trauma and pre-hospital training
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Alex Chant-Stevens
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Great Devon based outdoor first aid training. Learnt lots had a great time and feel very qualified!!
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jim earl
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brilliant first aid course. many thanks
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Jasmine Ousley
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Really informative, friendly and supportive outdoor first aid course, especially helpful for leading Dartmoor, Devon outdoor activities.
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Stuart Ruffle
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This is an outstanding outdoor first aid course for those based in Devon or regionally. I have done outdoor first aid courses for 20 years and this is the only one that I am confident where I am going to feel challenged and come away having built my knowledge base and confidence. This is the second time I have used Optimal First Aid and I would be confident in using them again and I would recommend them to others.
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Kerry Jordan
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Great course which was easy to follow and very relaxing thanks to Toby Osborne. Was good to have a lot of practical exercises as it made the course more interesting as sometimes too much talking can get boring. This course was definitely not boring as everyone was involved. Great work Tony 👍
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Chris Parham
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First aid in the outdoors. Not a power point in sight. The course was easily the best I've been on over many years. Content was engaging and Toby constantly managed to reshape the learning to reflect our different industries. Toby and Erica were fun, approachable and very knowledgeable. Don't think about it. Just book it. Back again after 3 years and the course is still hands on, relevant and engaging. This course removes the chore and bore of renewing your first aid qualification!
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Grace Pike
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We’ve just had our annual refresher course with Toby! He is absolutely brilliant, even covered some bits that aren’t ’officially’ part of the training. Very informative and fun. Thank you so much!! From The Honeycomb Team x
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Naomi Ranft
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Awesome refresher morning with clear advice, confidence boosting and memorable education!
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Kiera Gill
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Did a Level 3 paediatric first aid course and I learnt so much! Toby was phenomenal, and really funny! Would 100% recommend :)
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Emily
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Toby was such a lovely guy made me feel relaxed and be able to pass my paediatric first aid course. Thanks toby

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