Care staff short courses covering practical and theory elements to meet the Skills for Care/mandatory requirements. All about our care staff training courses - here
Excellent value Food Safety training courses, CIEH or HABC accredited, by professionally qualified, experienced tutors. All about our food safety training courses - here
Accredited Health & Safety awareness training courses for employers and employees in the workplace. All about our Health & Safety training courses - here
First Aid training courses - including First Aiders certificate training, Emergency First Aid at Work and CPR courses. All about our first aid training courses - here
Accredited moving & handling of loads training courses. Accredited moving & handling of people/ patients training for care staff. All about our manual handling training courses - here
About us
SSTAR was founded in 1996 by the current MD, Val Walker and incorporated in 1998. In that period SSTAR instructors and affiliate instructors have trained over 30,000 candidates.
Our London office provides a service to London and the Home Counties: Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire and Hertfordshire. Our Newbury office provides a service to Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. SSTAR works closely with the HSE (Health and Safety Executive), the CIEH (Chartered Institute of Environmental Health), and HABC (Highfield Awarding Body Compliance), to deliver courses to meet the users' needs in preventing accidents and ill health, and promoting safety and wellbeing of all.
Effective health & safety training is vital to ensure all levels of staff are aware of current legislation, their responsibilities to others, and to enable them to make contributions to raising health & safety standards within their organisation.
SSTAR qualified, experienced instructors and consultants have years of experience in occupational safety in a wide range of industries: hospitals, clinics, Social Care and Corporate Business, working to develop safety skills and knowledge and helping to encourage a safer workforce and place of work.
Safer Staff Training & Recruitment Limited
At Safer Staff Training & Recruitment we understand the daily pressures faced by organisations in delivering and monitoring essential health and safety training to its workforce; however it is absolutely vital that all your employees fully understand their responsibilities for health and safety in the workplace.
Our highly acclaimed health and safety training courses are a powerful tool for training new and existing members of staff on all aspects of health & safety at work. Our courses range from first aid training and risk assessment to manual handling safety and fire safety.
Over 150,000 employees are injured at work every year in the UK. In addition to this, nearly 2,000,000 suffer illness caused by what they do for a living. A priority for employers must be preventing these types of incidents. Our affordable health and safety training courses means you can now help to avoid the potentially disastrous consequences of dealing with an incident in the work place.
We work with clients in all areas of industry, commerce and government to deliver realistic and effective health and safety training courses. We can deliver the training at your premises or at a designated location such as a hotel or conference facility. Our team of specialist health and safety trainers offer a range of health and safety training and care staff training courses.
SSTAR provides a range of safety training courses covering (click on a link for more information):
- Health & Safety at work courses
- Care staff training courses
- First aid training courses
- Fire safety training courses
- Catering/food hygiene staff training courses
- Manual handling training courses
- Risk Assessment training courses
- COSSH
For more information on any of our courses, please browse our site or contact us.


