First Aid at Work

Description

Choose your venue

1. Unit 6 Lower Street, Baylham Business Park, Suffolk, IP6 8JP
2. Delivery at your premises (subject to minimum numbers and travel distance)

Course Aim

Over 3 days, learners will develop the skills and knowledge needed to deal with a range of first aid situations, including: assessing an incident, managing an unresponsive casualty, CPR, heart attacks, choking, head and spinal injuries, fractures, anaphylaxis and more.

Who Should Attend?

This qualification is specifically designed for those who are appointed to act as a first aider in their workplace. It is also ideal for people who have a specific responsibility to provide first aid in voluntary and community activities.

Course Overview

Unit 1: Emergency First Aid in the Workplace

Understand the role and responsibilities of a first aider:

• Identify the role and responsibilities of a first aider
• Identify how to minimise the risk of infection to oneself and others
• Identify the need for consent to provide first aid

Be able to assess an emergency safely:

• Conduct a scene survey
• Conduct a primary survey of a casualty
• Summon appropriate assistance when necessary

Be able to provide first aid to an unresponsive casualty:

• Identify when to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
• Demonstrate adult CPR using a manikin
• Identify when to place a casualty into the recovery position
• Demonstrate how to place a casualty into the recovery position
• Demonstrate continual monitoring of breathing whilst the casualty is in the recovery position
• Identify how to administer first aid to a casualty who is experiencing a seizure

Be able to provide first aid to a casualty who is choking:

• Identify when a casualty is choking
• Demonstrate how to administer first aid to a casualty who is choking

Be able to provide first aid to a casualty with external bleeding:

• Identify whether external bleeding is life-threatening
• Demonstrate how to administer first aid to a casualty with external bleeding

Know how to provide first aid to a casualty who is suffering from shock:

• Recognise when a casualty is suffering from shock
• Identify how to administer first aid to a casualty who is suffering from shock

Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with minor injuries:

• Identify how to administer first aid to a casualty with:
  • Small cuts
  • Grazes
  • Bruises
  • Small splinters
  • Nosebleeds
• Identify how to administer first aid to a casualty with minor burns and scalds

Unit 2: Recognition and Management of Illness and Injury in the Workplace

Be able to conduct a secondary survey:

• Identify the information to be collected when gathering a casualty history
• Demonstrate how to conduct a head-to-toe survey

Be able to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected injuries to bones, muscles and joints:

• Recognise a suspected:
  • Fracture or dislocation
  • Sprain or strain
• Identify how to administer first aid for a casualty with suspected:
  • Fracture or dislocation
  • Sprain or strain
• Demonstrate how to apply:
  • A support sling
  • An elevated sling

Be able to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected head and spinal injuries:

• Recognise a suspected:
  • Head injury
  • Spinal injury
• Identify how to administer first aid for a suspected head injury
• Demonstrate how to administer first aid for a casualty with a suspected spinal injury

Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected chest injuries:

• Identify how to administer first aid for suspected:
  • Fractured ribs
  • Penetrating chest injury

Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with burns and scalds:

• Identify how to recognise the severity of burns and scalds
• Identify how to administer first aid for burns involving:
• Dry/wet heat
• Chemicals
• Electricity

Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with an eye injury:

• Identify how to administer first aid for eye injuries involving:
  • Dust
  • Chemicals
  • Embedded objects

Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected poisoning:

• Identify how poisonous substances can enter the body
• Identify how to administer first aid to a casualty with suspected sudden poisoning

Be able to provide first aid to a casualty with anaphylaxis:

• Recognise suspected anaphylaxis
• Identify how to administer first aid for a casualty with suspected anaphylaxis
• Demonstrate the use of a ‘training device’ adrenaline auto-injector

Know how to provide first aid to a casualty with suspected major illness:

• Recognise suspected:
  • Heart Attack
  • Stroke
  • Epileptic seizure
  • Asthma attack
  • Hypoglycaemic emergency
• Identify how to administer first aid to a casualty suffering from:
  • Heart Attack
  • Stroke
  • Epileptic seizure
  • Asthma attack
  • Hypoglycaemic emergency

Duration

3 days – 18 hours (approx.)

Unit 1 – 6 hours | Unit 2 – 12 hours

Certification

Qualsafe Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work (2 units)