The first aid at work course covers everything you would find on the one-day emergency first aid at work course, but also includes a wide range of additional skills.
Delegates will be 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
•Is bleeding, including life-threatening bleeding and the use of haemostatic dressings 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)
