Candidates successfully completing this course will be entitled to act as a first-aider in the workplace. This First aid at Work course includes the 1 day Emergency First Aid at Work course and also equips the first-aider to apply first aid to an extensive range of specific injuries and illnesses. This course complies with the Health and Safety (First-Aid) regulations 1981 (Appendix 5 Content of a First Aid at Work (FAW) course).
Course Structure:
Unit 1: Emergency First aid in the Workplace
Unit 2: Recognition and Management of Illness and Injury in the Workplace
Course Content:
In accordance with Appendix 5 & 6 of the H&S (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
Unit 1 covers the following topics:
- Roles and responsibilities of a first aider
- Cross infection
- Recording incidents & actions
- Use of available equipment
- Assessing an incident
- Unconscious casualties (including seizure)
- Cardio pulmonary resuscitation;
- Safe use of an Automated External Defibrillator
- Choking
- Wounds and bleeding shock
- Minor injuries (including small cuts, grazes and bruises, minor burns and scalds, small splinters)
Unit 2 covers the following topics:
- Secondary survey;
- Injuries to bones, joints and muscles (including – Spinal injuries)
- Suspected head and spinal Injuries
- Chest injuries
- Burns and scalds
- Eye injuries
- Sudden poisoning
- Anaphylaxis;
- Major illnesses (heart attack, stroke, Epilepsy, asthma & diabetes)
- Serious bleeding including: Embedded objects, Sucking chest wound, Amputations
