Emergency First Aid At Work (EFAW)

Staff Groups: This course is aimed at all staff and volunteers working in health and social care.

Course Overview: The Emergency First Aid at Work course (EFAW) is ideal for all businesses where a risk assessment has identified that there is no requirement for a fully trained first aider in the workplace. The certificate is valid for 3 years. To renew you need to attend another EFAW 6 hour course.

Course Aims:

• Understand the role and responsibilities of an emergency first aider

• Know how to assess an incident

• Manage an unresponsive casualty who is breathing normally

• Manage an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing normally

• Recognise and assist a casualty who is choking

• Manage a casualty who is wounded and bleeding

• Manage a casualty who is in shock

• Understand how to manage a casualty with a minor injury