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.