First Aid at Work

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

In accordance with Appendix 5 & 6of 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;