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Solve Safety - Eliot Rees
Medicine – Year 3
Summary:
Business Type: Health and Safety training based in Staffordshire and Swansea
Solve Safety provides expert training for a wide range of qualifications in health & safety, first aid, food safety and a number of other associated areas. I established the business and joined the EFS scheme at Keele in October 2010. Shortly after joining the scheme the company was registered with two awarding bodies to start providing accredited qualifications.
About me:
I’m currently in the third year of my medicine degree at Keele University. I decided to start my own training business having realised that I enjoyed training others when I occupied a role as a Duke of Edinburgh Award Leader. Due to my interest in first aid and the experience I gained whilst working as a Community First Responder, I had a solid foundation to start teaching courses and share my interests, so I decided to set up Solve Safety.
About the business:
The courses offered vary from short courses covering the fundamental principles of a topic, to longer courses which are in much more depth and can extend up to a week in duration. In addition to course provision, consultancy work is also undertaken in order to ensure all of our customers’ needs are met.
How Student Enterprise has helped me:
EFS initially enabled me to become qualified in health and safety, food safety, first aid and teaching. Then through the business training programme, I learnt how to set up the company, how to ensure I was complying with legislation and how to market the business. The continuing support of Keele University’s Student Enterprise team has been a major contributing factor in the success of the business.
Future plans:
In the coming years I intend on developing Solve Safety into an established business with national interest. I plan to lease premises in Stoke to allow me to extend the provision of open courses and to develop the range of courses offered.
