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First Aid at Work - 2 Day Refresher Course

Course Duration:        2 days

 Certificate Details:     First aid at work certificate. Valid for 3 years.

Target Group:

Customers who need to renew a valid first aid at work certificate. Adult focus.

Pre Course Requirement:

Customers must be able to carry out the practical elements from the course outline. Customers must have previously attended a 3 day first aid at work course. Minimum age 16.

Please note that candidates will be required to take a copy of their original certificate to the training course.

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, lone worker)

-          Hygiene techniques

-          Bleeding and wounds (bleeding heavily from a wound (limb, embedded object in a wound, palm of hand, scalp/head)

-          Shock (shock and internal bleeding)

-          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)

-          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)

-          Asthma

-          Severe allergic reaction

-          Diabetic emergency

-          Seizures

-          Stroke

-          Feeling faint

-          Head injury

-          Bleeding and wounds (crush injuries, penetrating chest wounds, abdominal wounds, amputation, small blisters and splinters, small bruises and wounds, nosebleed, eye wounds, bites and stings)

-          Bone, muscle and joint injuries (broken bones, dislocations, strains and sprains, spinal injury