A Decline in Safety Training Standards?...Update

I am pleased to 'Update' that I have now received a call from the Training Provider linked to my last 'BLOG' and we appear to have found some common ground. I am personally pleased to have had the opportunity of expanding upon several of my comments and highlighting a few other issues that the feedback form did not allow due to space restrictions. Despite the initial exchange being 'slightly awkward' with some evident levels of protection being employed, we got to where I wanted to get.

Training Providers, myself included, need to maintain an appreciation of the delegate point of view and when we invite questions or comment we should always maintain a level of receptivity, and, more importantly respond accordingly. If we are 'critiqued' we have to learn from it and view it as a steer toward the positive.

Nonetheless, my latter points of my 'blog' remain, I still see a huge level of 'culpability' if 'god forbid' a helicopter ditches in the sea and the passengers have not practiced with the system other than in a chair in a classroom...for those that have undertaken the course they will appreciate the vast difference between that environment and the panic, confusion and disorientation of being upside down in water, particularly the large number of 'non-confident' swimmers working in the industry.