Course Summary
Candidates successfully completing this course will be entitled to act as a first aider in the workplace gaining an Emergency First Aid at Work certificate. In addition to the subjects covered on a standard Emergency First Aid at Work course, it also includes Paediatric first aid training.
- The role of the first aider
- Importance of preventing cross infection.
- The need for recording incidents and actions
- Use of available equipment
- Assessing the situation & act safely in an emergency
- Administer Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Safe use of an Automated External Defibrillator
- Administer first aid to a casualty who is: unconscious (including seizures) choking wounded or bleeding, suffering from shock
- Provide appropriate first aid for Minor Injuries (small cuts, grazes, bruises, minor burns, scalds & small splinters)
