Emergency First Aid (Health)

Course Category FIRST AID
Sector HEALTH
Course title "Emergency First Aid Course"
Course Reference FA/EDTHALF

Who should attend

Any person who is required to act as an "Appointed Person" in the workplace for the purposes of the First Aid At Work regulations 1981.

Course Details

Accreditations : Solutions Certificate
Price : Course price £495 + VAT
Duration : 1/2 Day
Course size : Number of Participants: Maximum 12

Course Aims

• To enable the employer to comply with the need to have a trained "appointed person" able to take charge in the event of an accident / sudden illness in the work.
• To preserve the life and prevent deterioration in a casualty.

This course has been designed with the core aim of creating a confident appointed person able to take charge and render life saving skills in an emergency.

Course Introduction

The First Aid at Work Regulations 1981 require all employers and the self employed to make first aid provisions for their staff at work.

Solutions are a Health & Safety Executive approved first aid at work training provider. This course has been designed to ensure you have a person at work that is confident and competent to deal with an emergency. It is not a substitute for a qualified first aider. However, a person with appointed persons training may cover the short term absence of a first aider.

The course centres on training staff to recognise and manage both life threatening situations and other incidents that may occur in the workplace. The content is line with the revised Resuscitation Council protocols of December 2005.

It is only delivered by trainers who either qualified as ambulance paramedic, or nurse tutors. The company does not use lay / non professional instructors. This means that the trainers are able to share years of practical experience with the participants.

Please note that all participants have access to an incident debrief help line. This is designed to allow people trained by Solutions to talk through any incident they may have been called upon to assist with.

Optional additional modules are available to this course - please ask for more details

What delegates will learn

• What the role of an emergency first aider is
• How to ensure personal and casualty safety
• How to establish priorities
• How to manage an unconscious person
• How to perform Basic Life Support
• How to control bleeding
• How to manage a heart attack

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Describe the role of an appointed person
• Described the role of emergency first aid in the "chain of survival"
• Demonstrate a basic examination of a conscious and unconscious person
• Demonstrate recovery position, CPR, management of bleeding, management of choking and chest pain.

Assessment process

This will be overall and continuous, against the course objectives.

Certification / Accreditation:

On successful completion of this programme participants will receive a Solutions Certificate.

Special requirements of course participants:

None

Course Trainers:

Solutions first aid training team only come from NHS ambulance and nursing backgrounds. All are approved by the Health & Safety Executive to deliver first aid training.