Emergency First Aid At Work - 1 Day

Description

This is a short course in Basic Life Support. The aim of the course is to enable all students to deal with an unresponsive casualty who is breathing, and how to deal with an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing.

Duration

1 Day Course

Full Details 

This new HSE approved qualification comes into effect as from 1st October 2009, along with new guidance on assessing the needs of First Aid in your workplace. Your risk assessment of First Aid needs may well identify the need for Emergency First Aiders either as an addition to your First Aiders. Below are the subject covered by the EFAW course. A 3 year certificate will be issued to those who meet the criteria.

Syllabus

• Responsibilities and Reporting
• Arriving at the scene
• Assessment of the situation
• Basic hygiene in First Aid
• Dealing with unresponsive casualty
• Top-to-toe survey
• Resuscitation
• Heart Attacks
• Bleeding Control
• Minor Injuries
• Angina
• Choking
• Shock
• Seizures