First Aid at Work

The First Aid at Work course approved by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE); is generally accepted as the most advanced first aid training course for the layman.

The qualification is valid for 3 years and requires a 2 day requalification course which must be complete within 3 years to maintain the qualification.

The course is predominantly practical hands on training. The emphasis being to ensure that upon completion of the course, students will be both competent and confident dealing with accidents and injuries in the workplace. After completing a final practical assessment students receive a First Aid at Work certificate which complies with Health and Safety (first aid) Regulations 1981.

Since 1st October 2009 the HSE strongly recommends 3 hour annual refresher training for all levels of first aider in the workplace.

During the course students are taught:

· Legislation covering first aid at work regulations
· Legal responsibilities of a first aider
· Aims of first aid
· Main requirements of a first aider
· First aid equipment & use of medication
· Keeping records & passing on information
· Accident books,
· Emergency response at the scene
· Cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
· Obstructed airway
· Unconscious casualty
· Dangers of infection (blood borne viruses)
· Bleeding blood loss
· Head injuries
· Acute illness incl: diabetes, stroke, epilepsy
· Heart attack & Angina
· Burns
· Fractures/ muscular skeletal injuries
· Eye injuries
· Poisons
· Effects of heat and cold.

Independent assessors carry out a practical assessment at the end of the course.