Who Attends
Anyone in any workplace that may be required to carry out first aid in an emergency.
Course Content
- Welcome and introduction
- Roles and responsibilities of the first aider
- Assessing an incident
- Dealing with an emergency (assessing a casualty, monitoring a casualty, where to get help, electrical incidents, lone worker)
- Unresponsive and breathing adult (unresponsive and breathing adult and special considerations suspected spinal injury)
- Sudden poisoning and harmful substances.
- 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, safety considerations
- Choking
- Heat exhaustion (heat exhaustion and dehydration)
- Hypothermia
- Seizures
- Heart attack
- Angina attack
- Accident recording, reporting and COSHH (health and safety first aid regulations, first aid kits, accident records, RIDDOR and COSHH)
- Burns and scalds (burns, electrical burns, chemical burns, chemical burns to the eyes)
- External bleeding and wounds (bleeding heavily from a wound, limb, embedded object in a wound, scalp/head)
- Shock (shock and internal bleeding)
- Other bleeding and wounds (bleeding heavily from a wound (palm of hand), crush injuries, penetrating chest wounds, abdominal wounds, amputation, small blisters and splinters, small bruises and wounds, nosebleed, eye wounds, bites and stings)
- Hygiene techniques
- Diabetic emergency
- Asthma
- Anaphylaxis
- Stroke
- Feeling faint
- Head injury
- Injuries to bones, joints and muscles
- Suspected head and spinal injuries
Training & Assessment Methods
- Question paper/written assessment
- Practical assessments
Pre-requisites and additional information
No prerequisites are required for this course. Certificates last for 3 years although it is recommended that refresher training is received each year.
Course Times
8.00am - 4.00pm. Course times will be confirmed in the joining instructions once the course has been booked.