We have added some new skill categories to the website to allow organisations that provide safety training related services to use the site effectively. More...

We have added a number of new features this week, mainly around the Portfolio Builder, as well as continuing to improve the existing functionality of the website.

The new Portfolio Builder features enable portfolios people create to be shared therefor enabling the quality assurance checks to be made. This is an important milestone for us as this idea is at the heart of the website's concept More...

Happy New Year everyone. I am please to announce that we have incorporated a number of new features into the Safety Training Network website over the festive period which should make using the site easier and allow you (the users) to have a voice in the future development of the website and it's features.

The New Features

1) Single Sign On - If you have accounts with other websites (Google, Facebook, MySpace, More...

We have just updated the website with a new feature - the 'Availability Request' this allows training coordinators for an organisation to send in bulk emails and or sms messages to their trainers and assessors to see if they are available for work. For more details on this functionality please read the more detailed post on the subject.

We have also redesigned the screens for adding and managing portfolios with the Portfolio Builder. We had got feedback on how confusing is was to use. We have replaced the initial screen with a much clearer layout for the portfolios. When you open a portfolio you can see what pages have been setup for that portfolio and what items from the evidence store have been used to fulfil those pages. For a diagram on the concept of how the portfolio builder works please view our help section

Other updates are mostly cosmetic with the breadcrumb control at the top of the page plus better layout rendering for Firefox browsers.

We have released a new feature called 'Availability Request'.

The 'Availability Request' feature allows organisations to quickly, easily and cheaply ask the trainers and assessors in their network if they can work on a certain date. This is very useful if trainers and assessors have not entered their time into their calendar. This article goes into more detail about what the request is and how it works. More...

We have added an online shop to the website where people can purchase our services. Currently we are only selling mobile phone text messages. These messages More...

We are currently working on a range of new features for the website largely based on feedback we have receive about the site so far. We are interested More...

We received a massive boost today when Microsoft accepted us onto their technology start up programme called BizSpark (Safety Training Network Bizspak profile).

Microsoft are now supporting Safety Training Network with the technical challenges of the website as well as guiding us on making website a commercial success in the future.

We have written a magazine article which will be published in the next edition of the Focus on First Aid magazine. View the draft copy of the magazine article (2.4Mb).