http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog Important news for Door Supervisors, Security Guards, Employers, Franchise Owners and Business Owners. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:30:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Applicants for SIA licences can now fill in their form online with the e-Fill service introduced by the Security Industry Authority. e-Fill has been designed to make it easier and quicker for applicants to complete their application form.  It also has built in verification to reduce the likelihood of the form ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/sia-announce-new-e-fill-service-for-licence-applications/ Following the informal consultation on whether a single generic SIA licence should be introduced, the SIA will not be developing a non sector-specific licence. Overall, feedback from the industry showed that while there was some interest in a more integrated approach, the option for a single generic licence card did not ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/sia-say-no-to-single-generic-licence/ I am so sick of hearing about rogue wheel-clamping companies and yesterday brought a whole new round of interesting c**p about it. A training company in the south-west is now offering vehicle immobiliser courses where you turn up for one day, take a test (but don't worry - they'll even give ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/vehicle-immobiliser-training-courses/ TEACHERS have praised a pupil who saved the life of a 14-year-old schoolgirl who collapsed after drinking a bottle of Tequila reports the Burton Mail. Pingle School pupil Tom Causer, 14, used first aid techniques he had learned only two weeks earlier after finding a friend struggling down an alleyway. He checked ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/teachers-praise-pupil%e2%80%99s-life-saving-first-aid-skills/ Physical Intervention Training for all New Door Supervisors from 1st June 2010 New training, available from 1st June, means that candidates now wishing to train as door supervisors will be required to pass a one-day physical intervention skills training session, as well as pass three examinations, in order to gain the ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/sia-announce-compulsory-new-door-supervisor-training/ Simon de Bruxelles of the Times Online asks: When is a drunk not a drunk?  Police have been accused of entrapment after sending amateur actors into pubs to order drinks while swaying and announcing to bar staff in a slurred voice “I’m hammered”. Two actors visited ten pubs in Bexley, southeast ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/police-used-%e2%80%98drunken%e2%80%99-actors-to-trap-bar-staff-into-serving-them/ AN UNLICENSED wheel clamping firm boss who fleeced dozens of innocent motorists has jailed for two years after his "business" was condemned as a ruthless scam. Judge Philip Parker QC told Andrew Baker that his company, Inter Park UK, was nothing more than a simple con which had left its victims ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/man-jailed-over-wheel-clamping-scam/ Final chance to take your door supervisor qualification before the course changes in June.   beSmart Training are running their top class door supervisor course on 25-28 May at their London training centre. This is the last course we will be running that has only two exams - as from 1st June ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/door-supervisor-course-25-28-may-2010/ Prior to the launch of the new door supervisor course on June 1st 2010, beSmart Training are running a one-day physical intervention course for Door Supervisors and Security Guards who already hold an SIA licence or the relevant qualification for one of those licences. It has not yet been decided if ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/physical-intervention-for-security/ When was the last time you checked your first aid kit was adequately stocked, or that your dressings were not past their "use by" date? It is an employers legal obligation to ensure that first kits are available to all their employees and customers at all times.  So don't delay.... check ... http://www.besmart-training.co.uk/blog/when-did-you-last-check-your-first-aid-kit/