First Aid at Work - 2 Day Refresher Course

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)