First Aid at Work course - 3 days

£280.00

This course delivers a comprehensive set of essential first aid skills, suitable for everyone. It equips first aiders with the confidence and knowledge to act swiftly and effectively when someone falls ill or is injured in the workplace.

This course delivers a comprehensive set of essential first aid skills, suitable for everyone. It equips first aiders with the confidence and knowledge to act swiftly and effectively when someone falls ill or is injured in the workplace.

This 3-day course covers everything you would find on the 1 day emergency first aid course, but also includes a wide range of additional skills. Our training ensures learners are able to understand, and where relevant, apply, the following skills when helping an adult in the workplace who:

  • is unresponsive and breathing

  • is unresponsive and not breathing, including how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED)

  • is choking

  • bleeding, including life-threatening bleeding and the use of haemostatic dressings for wound packing and tourniquets

  • is suffering from shock and internal bleeding

  • has burns

  • feels faint

  • has been poisoned

  • has a head injury

  • has hypothermia or heat exhaustion

  • has an injury to a bone, muscle or joint (including spinal injuries).

Learners will also be able to help a casualty who is having a:

  • seizure

  • heart attack, including the administration of aspirin

  • angina attack

  • stroke

  • asthma attack

  • severe allergic reaction

  • diabetic emergency.

The course also includes information on:

  • assessing a casualty

  • monitoring a casualty

  • where to get help

  • electrical incidents

  • accident recording and reporting

  • the control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH).