Emergency First Aid at Work With AED

To provide Emergency First Aiders with the knowledge & skills to summon help & give safe, prompt & effective emergency first aid to a casualty in the workplace following an injury or illness using materials to hand and/or HSE-approved first aid equipment, including an AED.

Training Objectives

By the end of this course, the student will be able to:

• State the role of the Emergency First Aider
• Carry out a primary survey of a casualty
• To place an unconscious casualty into the recovery position
• Carry out effective rescue breathing to current Resuscitation Council guidelines
• Carry out effective CPR to current Resuscitation Council guidelines
• Know when and how the use an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
• Recognise and deal with Minor & major cases of bleeding
• To recognise and treat a patient suffering from medical shock
• Recognise & treat medical emergencies as identified by the student group.

Learning and Assessment with the emergency first aid training course

Our Emergency First Aid Training Courses are delivered in-house and in a classroom setting. The course offers a practical, hands-on approach that delivers the skills and confidence to use first aid skills in a real-life situation in which our courses meet and exceed the HSE’s criteria for what is expected of training providers.

Each learner is assessed throughout the course using a range of practical demonstrations, question and answer sessions, quizzes and engaging activities, such as roleplay, designed to coach and support them.