First Aid at Work - 3 Day Full Qualification Course

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Categories: First Aid at Work - Qualified First Aider , First Aid Training Courses

£360 per delegate. This may be less for special offers on specific course dates and in-company training courses

Duration: 3 days

Trainer: V003NE

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Course Overview
Course Dates

Who Should Attend

This comprehensive three day course is designed to provide the first aider with the skills required to give effective life support, diagnose and treat injuries or illness and maintain care and comfort for the casualty. The emphasis is placed on dealing with life threatening situations to help ensure that the casualty is kept alive until professional help arrives.

What's Covered

Unit 1: Emergency First Aid at Work

- Roles and responsibilities
- Assessing an incident
- Unconscious casualties
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Choking
- External bleeding
- Shock
- Minor injuries
- Assessment

Unit 2: Recognition and Management of Illness and Injury in the Workplace

- Revision and practice
- Secondary survey
- Injuries to bones, joints and muscles
- Suspected head and spinal injuries
- Chest injuries
- Burns and scalds
- Eye injuries
- Sudden poisoning
- Anaphylaxis
- Major illnesses
- Revision and practice
- Assessment

What You Will Learn

By the end of the course candidates will understand:

- The roles and responsibilities of a first aider
- The legal requirements for first-aid provision
- The importance of accurate incident reporting
- How to use first-aid equipment safely
- The need to minimise the risk of infection
- The importance of assessing an incident
- When and how to call for help
- How to conduct a secondary survey

And be able to:

- Undertake a primary survey
- Administer first aid to a casualty with injuries to bones, muscles and joints
- Administer first aid to a casualty with suspected head and spinal injuries
- Administer first aid to a casualty with suspected chest injuries
- Administer first aid to a casualty with burns and scalds
- Administer first aid to a casualty with an eye injury
- Administer first aid to a casualty with sudden poisoning
- Administer first aid to a casualty with anaphylaxis
- Provide first aid to a casualty with suspected major illness

Assessment

10 question multi choice exam at the end of Day 1 and a 20 question multi choice exam at the end of Day 3 plus Practical Assessments throughout the course.

Course Times

Usually 9.00am - 4.30pm. Course times will be confirmed in the joining instructions once the course has been booked.

The course either has new dates in data loading, or is only run as a dedicated or In Company course.

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