Extreme Care Profile

Extreme Care is a small first aid and water & kayak safety training company set up By David Hepworth. The courses are aimed at commercial companies, Universities, Colleges, clubs, groups and individuals who have a need for training in these fields. With over 30 years experience of paddling, climbing and caving, as well as instructing, Dave has worked and enjoyed the outdoors with many people of varying abilities, from Pro river Guides in New Zealand and Costa Rica to novice school groups on adventure camps in the Lake District.

Throughout this time he has always thought about the what ifs and wherefore's if things turned bad, which is maybe why he doesn’t push things as hard as he once did. So with this in mind he created Extreme Care a company specifically aimed at developing first aid and kayak safety skills for all people who work and play in the outdoors.

The kayak safety course was developed to teach self rescue skills to beginners and the intermediate core of kayakers who wish to progress to harder paddling, but don’t have the necessary skills to extricate themselves should things turn bad.

Dave is an active paddler and has worked as a Level 4 instructor. He has many links within the Climbing and Caving fraternities, as well as links with several associated rescue teams. Dave is a Rescue 3 Advanced Swiftwater Rescue Technician, an RYA level 2 powerboat helm, a Rescue Emergency Care Trainer, a West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service Community First Responder Trainer, as well as being a Responder in his local community.