About Stewart Richardson
As a Chartered Health and Safety Practitioner (CMIOSH) with a Level 6 Diploma in Applied Health and Safety, I bring over 30 years of experience supporting organisations and individuals working in challenging and remote environments throughout the UK.
My professional background is both rich and varied – beginning with my service in HM Forces as a Royal Engineer, followed by a civilian career spanning construction, forestry, and the outdoor industries. I have worked as an outdoor instructor, winter mountain leader, and overseas expedition leader, and I am a former member of Scottish Mountain Rescue.
This diverse experience provides me with a unique and practical understanding of risk management, compliance, and safety – particularly for those operating in remote or rural environments.
I have extensive experience working with highland estates, forestry companies, and land-based organisations, offering pragmatic health and safety support that is realistic, effective, and grounded in the practicalities of working outdoors. My approach focuses on promoting a strong safety culture whilst ensuring compliance remains achievable and relevant to day-to-day operations.
In addition, I am an active member of the Forestry Industry Safety Accord (FISA) Site Safety Working Group, helping to promote and improve safety standards across the forestry and associated industries.
About us
CA First Aid provide tailored first aid training specific to your own working environment. Our first aid courses are designed around the risks and hazards of your own working environment.
Our trainers have many years of experience dealing with casualties in real life situations. We have worked in the same environments as your own staff so we able to transfer these valuable skills into course content
At CA First Aid our courses are fully compliment with current health and safety legislation.
Our First Aid at Work (FAW) training courses and Wilderness and Outdoor First Aid training courses are tailored specifically for people working in an outdoor environment. Whether you are a forestry company looking for the Forestry +F first aid training course, a renewable energy or construction company with workers operating in remote environments, or an educational facility looking for a course that covers all the national governing body awards, we can tailor our courses to meet your own specific requirements.
Our instructors
Stewart Richardson CMIOSH (Managing Director)
Stewart Richardson comes from an ex military and mountain rescue background serving 12 years as a section commander in the Royal Engineers seeing service in Germany, Falkland Islands and Northern Ireland at the hight of the troubles. On leaving the Royal Engineers Stewart made a career in the outdoor industry becoming a fully qualified Winter Mountain Leader (WML) and Overseas Expedition Leader and walking guide and Ex member of Galloway Mountain Rescue Team. When not working as a first aid trainer Stewart other job is working as an overseas expedition leader guiding and managing groups in the wild and remote places. This gives Stewart a very unique and rounded skill set and the ability to pull on many years of experience in many demanding situations with real life casualties. Working with many industries and organisations give Stewart the ability to tailor courses to peoples own working backgrounds this helps to contextualise courses and make them as relevant as possible. As an ex section commander working with heave plant on construction site and real life casualty evacuation with Mountain Rescue and as an expedition leader means Stewart can pull on a vast wealth of nowlage to pass on during our training courses. Stewart holds a NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety and a
Diploma in applied health and safety.