First Aid at Work - 3 Day Full Qualification Course

Customers who require a first aid at work certificate.

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, 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)