Emergency First Aid at Work

This course can only be completed face-to-face. Depending on your requirements, it can be delivered on or off-site.

Employers’ legal duties
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to ensure their employees receive immediate attention if they are injured or taken ill at work. These Regulations apply to all workplaces including those with less than five employees and to the self-employed.

Course Content: Emergency First Aid at Work

Understand the role and responsibilities of a First Aider.
Be able to assess an incident.
Be able to manage a casualty who is unresponsive and NOT breathing normally.
Be able to provide first aid to an unresponsive and breathing normally casualty.
Be able to manage a casualty who is in seizure.
Recognise and assist a casualty who is choking.

Manage a casualty with external bleeding.
Manage a casualty who is in shock.
Understand how to manage a casualty with a minor injury.
Understand how to manage a casualty with minor burns and scalds.
Identify the signs, symptoms and history of a casualty.