Who Should Attend:
Customers who require a first aid at work certificate.
Pre-requisites/Entry Requirements:
All delegates must be able to carry out the practical elements of the course.
Minimum age requirement: 16 Years
Course Contents:
- Welcome and introduction
- 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)
- Heart attack
- Angina attack
- 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 adult
- Heat exhaustion (heat exhaustion and dehydration)
- Hypothermia
- Seizures
- 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)
- Harmful substances (poisoning, swallowed, inhaled and injected harmful substances)
- Hygiene techniques
- Bleeding and wounds (bleeding heavily from a wound (limb, embedded object in a wound, scalp/head))
- Shock (shock and internal bleeding)
- 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)
- Diabetic emergency
- Asthma
- Severe allergic reaction
- Stroke
- Feeling faint
- Head injury
- Bone, muscle and joint injuries (broken bones, dislocations, strains and sprains, spinal injury)
Assessment:
Continuous assessment by observation, practical and questioning and MCQ
Certification:
Upon successful completion, delegates will achieve a First Aid at Work certificate which is valid for 3 years.
Duration:
3 Days
Times:
09:00 - 16:00
Course times may vary so please refer to the times provided in your course joining instructions.