Emergency First Aid at Work
Course Duration: 7 ½ hours
Contact Hours: 6 hours
Certificate Details: Emergency first aid at work certificate. Valid for 3 years.
Course Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Target Group:
Customers wishing to act as an emergency first aider for their workplace. This content is in line with HSE recommendations. Adult focus.
Pre Course Requirement:
Customers must be able to carry out the practical elements from the course outline. Minimum age 16.
Assessment Type:
Continuous assessment by observation, practical and questioning.
Course Content:
- Welcome and introduction
- Dealing with an emergency (assessing a casualty, monitoring a casualty, where to get help, electrical incidents)
- Unresponsive and breathing adult
- Seizures
- Unresponsive and not breathing adult (unresponsive not breathing adult, face shields and pocket masks, mouth to nose)
- AED (use of an AED, chain of survival)
- Choking adult
- Hygiene techniques
- Bleeding and wounds (bleeding heavily from a wound (limb, embedded object in a wound) small blisters and splinters, small bruises and wounds, nosebleed)
- Shock (shock and internal bleeding)
- Accident recording, reporting and COSHH (health and safety first aid regulations, first aid kits, accident records, RIDDOR and COSHH)
- Burns (burns, electrical burns, chemical burns, chemical burns to the eyes)
- Asthma
- Head injury