This course is suitable for people who need to provide first aid by responding to a wide range accidents, injuries and illnesses that they could encounter in their workplace.
Learners will develop the first aid skills and confidence to help someone who:
- is unresponsive and breathing
- is unresponsive and not breathing, including how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED)
- is choking
- is bleeding
- is suffering from shock
- 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).
