Our training centre in Knottingley
Rescue House, A1 Business Park, Knottingley, WF11 0BU
Contact: 01977 676700
Email: yorkshire@mrsl.co.uk
Our Yorkshire Training Centre is located in Knottingley, West Yorkshire.
From our Yorkshire Training Centre, we provide various health and safety training courses, including IOSH Managing Safely, for a wide range of industries.
We are known for providing training courses using our state-of-the-art facilities and equipment. All our trainers are highly experienced, former or current rescuers. We do not just teach from a textbook – we use our facilities and previous experiences to ensure you learn practical skills in the right environment.
MRS Training and Rescue is a leading First Aid training and assessment provider and is approved by QualSafe. We are also a leading work at height training provider with City & Guild approved facilities —to offer a range of courses suitable for anyone working at height in industry.
We’re specialist providers of low, high and medium risk confined space training courses. Our team will replicate situations and conditions using our state-of-the-art facilities to ensure you learn how to stay safe when you return to work.
Facilities
Our Knottingley training centre has a wide range of purpose built training facilities that allow us to provide practical and realistic training.
In addition to 6 dedicated training rooms – our centre features a self-contained confined space training chamber built into the fabric of the building. It has 70 metres of crawl space, and internal cameras that can be used to monitor and review training sessions and mock scenarios.
The centre also has a second confined space training unit with tunnels and crawl spaces that can be filled with artificial smoke to recreate real life situations and conditions.
As well as confined spaces facilities – this centre features purpose built working at height training facilities. This includes an indoor work at height system, with a variety of ladders and a sloping roof, designed to simulate a range of industry scenarios and drills.
We have a high quality mobile training unit, which means we can visit your site, factory or office to provide training to a group of employees. Our mobile training unit lets us replicate the conditions needed to provide training for the majority of our courses.
Training at your location is the perfect solution if you’re looking to train a team of people at the same time.
Our Yorkshire Traning Centre
Our Yorkshire training centre is located in Knottingley, West Yorkshire. It’s easily accessible via the M62, located close to the exit junction. Our training centre can also be accessed via local public transport links – the closest train station is Knottingley Train Station.
We provide lots of free parking at our centre, so there is no extra cost for drivers.
Our location is close to the following:
- Castleford
- Leeds
- Pontefract
- Wakefield
- Bradford
- Huddersfield
- Goole
- Scunthorpe
- Doncaster
- Sheffield
Our Yorkshire station is perfect for small, medium and large businesses based in the North of England. Our history means we have close connections to the community and are known in the local area for recent and historic rescues. Our location is close to the Xscape Castleford centre and we are also close to the Ferrybridge Power Station.
Meet the team
Bill Gundry
Operations Manager
Accomplished mines rescuer with 40 years’ skills and experience to lead the Yorkshire team
Neil Fowkes
Assistant Manager
Bringing 30 years’ experience as a Safety Officer and Mechanical Engineer to the Yorkshire management team.
Andrea Lowe
Office Manager
Excellent communicator whose problem-solving skills ensure the Yorkshire office runs like clockwork.
What our customers say...


I did the 5 day advanced first aid course & I found the course very informative & taught me a lot of things I didn’t know. The instructor we had was also very good & knowledgeable


First Aid Refresher course attended and standards still impeccable here.


First aid refresher course January 16&17 Alex the tutor was excellent, with his knowledge etc. Made you feel welcome & got everyone involved. Would highly recommend this company ...Nick👍🏻


Enjoyed the course friendly and helpful plenty of breaks no stress all in all a good two days

