First Aid at Work

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).