Emergency First Aid At Work (Qualsafe)

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

During this 1-day course, learners will develop the skills and knowledge needed to deal with a range of emergency first aid situations, including: managing an unresponsive casualty, CPR, choking, shock, wounds and bleeding and minor injuries.

Who Should Attend?

This is designed for those with a specific responsibility at work to provide first aid in a range of emergencies. It is also ideal for people who have a specific responsibility to provide basic first aid in voluntary and community activities.

Course Overview

Unit: 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

Duration

1 day – 6 hours (approx.)

Certification

Qualsafe Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (1 unit)