Courses

The QA Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work (RQF) is a regulated and nationally recognised qualification, specifically designed for those who are appointed to act as a first aider in their workplace. It is also ideal for people who have a specific responsibility to provide first aid in voluntary and community activities.

3 years.

Optional Annual refresher is also recommended.

QA Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work (RQF)

QA Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work (RQF)

• Be able to conduct a secondary survey
• Be able to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected injuries to bones, muscles and joints
• Be able to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected head and spinal injuries 
• Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected chest injuries
• Be able to administer first aid to a casualty with burns and scalds
• Be able to administer first aid to a casualty with an eye injury
• Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with sudden poisoning
• Be able to administer first aid to a casualty with anaphylaxis
• Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected major illness

£140 excl. VAT

QA Level 3 Certificate in First Response Emergency Care (RQF)

QA Level 3 Certificate in First Response Emergency Care (RQF) within the last 3 years

Revalidate within 3 years

The QA Level 3 Certificate in First Response Emergency Care (RQF) is a regulated and nationally recognised qualification specifically designed for those seeking a career in the emergency services, ambulance service, the event and security medical sector or those who work in high-risk workplaces.

• Understand the role and responsibilities of a first responder providing emergency care
• Be able to assess an incident
• Be able to assess a patient
• Be able to assess a patient’s airway
• Be able to manage a patient’s airway
• Be able to manage an unresponsive patient who is not breathing normally
• Be able to use appropriate equipment during a resuscitation attempt
• Be able to administer emergency oxygen
• Be able to manage catastrophic bleeding
• Be able to manage a patient who is in shock
• Be able to manage a patient who is bleeding
• Know how to manage a patient with burns or scalds
• Know how to manage a patient with minor injuries
• Know how to manage a patient with sudden poisoning
• Be able to provide emergency care to a patient with head and spinal injuries
• Be able to provide emergency care to a patient with injuries to bones, muscles and joints
• Understand how to identify a patient with breathing difficulties
• Understand how to manage a patient with breathing difficulties
• Know how to manage a patient with anaphylaxis
• Know how to manage a patient with suspected major illness
• Know how to manage a patient who is in seizure
• Understand how to provide emergency care for the effects of environmental exposure

£540 excl. VAT

During this 1 day course, Learners will develop the necessary skills associated with immediate life support, including: airway management, patient assessment, management of major illness/injury, post-incident procedures, Managing the Return of Spontaneous Circulation (RoSC), patient handovers and more.

QA Level 4 Award in Immediate Life Support (RQF)

Learners must have successfully completed the QA Level 4 Certificate in First Response Emergency Care (QCF or RQF) or similar qualification, e.g. Associate Ambulance Practitioner, IHCD Ambulance Aid or be a registered healthcare professional working in an emergency care or primary care environment.

This qualification is valid for a period of 1 year. The Learner needs to retake the qualification before the certificate expiry date to remain qualified.

The QA Level 4 Award in Immediate Life Support (RQF) is ideal for those who have a responsibility at work, or in community or voluntary activities to provide emergency care to patients, such as event medical providers, emergency ambulance personnel, registered healthcare professionals and those working in specialist roles within the emergency services and military.

• Be able to safely use and maintain emergency care equipment
• Be able to implement methods and procedures to assess and manage an incident
• Be able to diagnose, assess and manage patients with life-threatening and non-life threatening illness and injury
• Be able to implement methods and procedures to manage a patient’s airway
• Be able to carry out immediate life support
• Understand resuscitation decision making processes and procedures
• Know how to manage a patient with suspected major illness

£99 excl. VAT

1. Proof of completing the STCW Advanced Fire Fighting training course (STCW Reg VI/3 para 1 & Sec A-VI/3) or recognised equivalent pre 31 January 2000 (i.e. MNTB 4 Day Fire Fighting Course ).

2. You must also complete/show evidence of the updating training in Proficiency in Fire Prevention & Fire Fighting as per MSN1865.

3. Photographic ID (A Government issued, photographic proof of identity on the day of the course and this should take the form of either a valid Passport or a driving license or a valid discharge book). 

Successful candidates will be awarded with the MCA approved STCW Updated Proficiency in Advanced Fire Fighting certificate, after a short exam. 

Yes.

Prospective delegates must hold a valid STCW Advance Fire Fighting Certificate. Exceptions apply. 

£195 excl. VAT

This course is part of the mandatory updating certification requirements under the STCW 2010 amendments for all seafarers with designated safety duties who hold an advance firefighting certificate. This course will provide the delegate with the necessary refresher training under the STCW 2010 amendments for Advance Fire Fighting.

This is a theoretical class room based course; and it covers a range of subjects. It deals with firefighting procedures, communication and coordination, ventilation control, fire precautions, management and control of injured persons, procedure for communicating with shore side fire fighter.

Once completed, candidates will be awarded with the MCA approved STCW Updated Proficiency in Advanced Firefighting certificate. 

5 years.

MCA

£165 excl. VAT

This course is part of the mandatory updating certification requirements under the STCW 2010 amendments for all seafarers with designated safety duties who hold an advance firefighting certificate. This course will provide the delegate with the necessary refresher training under the STCW 2010 amendments for Advance Fire Fighting.

This is a theoretical classroom based course; and it covers a range of subjects. It deals with firefighting procedures, communication and coordination, ventilation control, fire precautions, management and control of injured persons, procedure for communicating with shore side fire fighter.

Once completed, candidates will be awarded with the MCA approved STCW Updated Proficiency in Advanced Firefighting certificate. 

MCA

STCW Advanced Fire Fighting

5 years

Officers on Merchant Navy Vessels

£165 excl. VAT

5 years. 

Successful candidates will be awarded with an MCA approved STCW Fire Prevention and Firefighting Update (FPFFU) certificate, after a short exam. 

You must wear comfortable clothes, but not jeans or clothes with metal in them.

We recommend you bring a towel and toiletries.

£195 excl. VAT

Successful candidates will be awarded with an MCA approved STCW Proficiency in Medical Care On-board Update (MCOBU) certificate, after a short exam. 

5 years.

£340  excl. VAT

The STCW Personal Survival Techniques Refresher Training is set up to offer prospective delegates with the necessary training to maintain proficiency as required in the STCW 2010 Manila Amendments. The half a day course is comprised by a blend of theory development and practical experience. Non-swimmers are permitted on this course and will always be supervised by fully qualified instructors.  

Successful candidates will receive an MCA approved STCW Updated Proficiency in Personal Survival Techniques award, after a short exam. 

5 years.

£99 excl. VAT

Successful candidates will be awarded with an MCA approved STCW certificate Updating Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boat, after a short exam.

5 years.

• Swimwear and Towel
• Please note the capsize and re-boarding exercise is a pass/fail part of the course. If you cannot board a FRB from the water unaided, we will not be able to allow you to progress further on the course.

• Familiarisation of launch davits 

• FRB maintenance and contingency repairs 

• Pre-use checks of FRB and PPE

• Briefing crew for recovery duties

• Carry out post capsize procedures, including righting of FRB whilst swimming in appropriate equipment and then re-boarding FRB

Must have taken part in an FRB drill within last 5 years covering:

• Launching and recovery
• Carrying out search patterns
• Boat handling
• Use of communication equipment
• Use of emergency equipment

Must have an FRB or FRBU certificate issued within last 10 years.

For crew designated for manning of a fast rescue boat.

£150 excl. VAT

The STCW Updating Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boats is designed for seafarers who are required to take charge of a fast rescue boat and crew on a Merchant Navy vessel who make up part of the FRB crew. This training is exclusively for delegates that hold an STCW Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boats certificate, within five years of issue.  This STCW course at Stream Marine Training is held at our state-of-the-art facilities based next to Glasgow Airport.

Not the right course for you?  Find out about FRBU Route 1 here

Delegates must have completed the STCW Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boats (FRB) course within five years of attainment.

Successful candidates will be awarded with an MCA approved STCW certificate in Updating Proficiency in Fast Rescue Boat, after a short exam.  

5 years.

• Swimwear and Towel
• Please note the capsize and re-boarding exercise is a pass/fail part of the course. If you cannot board a FRB from the water unaided, we will not be able to allow you to progress further on the course.

• Fast rescue boat handling 

• Manoeuvring at speed and capsize recovery 

• Familiarisation of launch davits 

• Search and rescue techniques 

• FRB maintenance and contingency repairs 

• Pre-use checks of FRB and PPE

• Briefing crew for recovery duties

• Carry out post capsize procedures, including righting of FRB whilst swimming in appropriate equipment and then re-boarding FRB

Persons designated for manning fast rescue boats.

£275 excl. VAT

Successful candidates will be awarded with an MCA approved  STCW Updating Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boat certificate, after a short exam. 

5 years. 

You should bring a towel and a change of clothes.

Any member of crew on a vessel that has a PSCRB certificate. 

£150 excl. VAT

Once completed, candidates will be awarded with an MCA approved STCW Updating Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boat certificate. 

5 years.

£225  excl. VAT

The route 1 updates are an update cycle available to experienced and active seafarers, whose knowledge is current.

This covers all of the STCW Basic Safety Training except Fast Rescue Boats.

• STCW Proficiency in Survival Craft and rescue Boats other then Fast Rescue Boats (PSCRB) Updating
• STCW Personal Survival Techniques (PST) Updating
• STCW Fire Prevention and Fire Fighting (FPFF) Updating

MCA

• Certification per MIN 535

and

• Having carried out on board training within last 5 years.

5 years

£444 excl. VAT

Successful candidates will be awarded with the MCA Approved Engine Course 1 (AEC1) certificate, after a short exam.  

Writing material and overalls. 

£950 excl. VAT

Successful candidates will be awarded with the MCA Approved Engine Course 2 (AEC2) certificate, after a short exam. 

You must bring a pair of overalls and suitable footwear. It may be beneficial to bring a laptop, in order to access some information given on a memory stick, however this is not essential. 

No.

£950 excl. VAT

Course outcomes

• Legislation, Regulations and Guidance affecting working at height with mobile access towers,
• PASMA Code of Practice; Product Standards EN 1004:2004, assembling,
• altering and dismantling towers incorporating current best practice for fall protection,
• inspection of completed mobile access towers and completion of Tower Inspection Records;
• hazards affecting the use of mobile access towers and how to avoid.

£99 excl. VAT

Designed to meet the requirements of:-

• SQA F7HK 11 Bridge Watchkeeping: An Introduction
• SQA HR03 34 Bridge Watchkeeping

• Interpret and apply regulations and systems for the safe movement of vessels.
• Describe operational and emergency bridge watchkeeping procedures. 
• Explain how to manoeuvre a vessel in a safe and controlled manner.
• Demonstrate knowledge of information contained on a navigational chart.
• Use navigational drawing instruments.
• Demonstrate a basic knowledge of the IRPCS and IALA Maritime Buoyage system.
• Identify the principles of keeping a safe navigational watch.
• Identify meteorological phenomena.

SMT Bridge Watchkeeping (Junior Officer)

£1000 excl. VAT

This course looks at the theory and challenges of watchkeeping, and looks at the relationships between people on the bridge. We also use the simulators to review and assess seafarers watchkeeping skills in various situations.

It has been designed to meet the requirements of HOJJ 04 Basic Navigational Watchkeeping

SMT Bridge Watchkeeping (Ratings)

• Watchkeeping
• Collision regulations
• Emergency response
• Teamwork
• Steering and ship handling
• Emergency response
• Know common nautical terms.
• Know how to contribute to the monitoring and control of a safe watch.
• Know what bridge equipment is used for lookout and watchkeeping duties.

Deck Ratings

£500 excl. VAT

This course looks at the theory and challenges of watchkeeping, and looks at the relationships between people on the bridge. We also use the simulators to review and assess seafarers watchkeeping skills in various situations.

SMT Bridge Watchkeeping (Senior Officers)

• Watchkeeping
• Collision regulations
• Emergency response
• Leadership and Teamwork
• Steering and ship handling
• Emergency response

Certificate of Competence as Deck Officer

Deck officers serving as or preparing for a role as a senior officer.

£1300 excl. VAT