Emergency First Aid at Work Training

The Emergency First Aid Course can be adapted to suit a particular audience and is ideal for those who would like or need Appointed Person status. This is the statutory Health and Safety Executive (HSE) approved Emergency First Aid at Work course, in accordance with the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981..

The one day course includes both theory and practical sessions within a relaxed atmosphere that is designed to promote confidence.

Subjects covered in the Emergency First Aid at Work Course include: Shock


  • First Aid Priorities
  • Treatment of an unconscious Casualty
  • Examining a Casualty
  • Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations
  • Burns and Scalds
  • Basic Life Support
  • First Aid Kits
  • Control of Bleeding
  • Managing Incidents and Prioritising
  • Recording and Reporting

Certification

Certification is dependent on successful continuous assessment of the student as there is no formal final examination. Those students who complete the course to the required standard are issued with a certificate that is valid for a period of three years.

*Under the current guidelines it is strongly recommended that first aid trained staff attend a half-day First Aid at Work Refresher every twelve months.

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First Aid Skills

A certain number of skills are thought to be crucial to the giving of first aid and are taught ubiquitously. Particularly, the "ABC"s of first aid, which focus particularly on critical life-saving intervention, must be rendered before dealing with conditions that are less serious. ABC means Airway, Breathing, and Circulation. The same mnemonic is used by almost all emergency health professionals. Attention must first be shown to the airway to ensure that it is clear. obstruction (choking) is a life-threatening condition. After the evaluation of the airway, a first aid trained person would check normal breathing was present and provide rescue breathing as appropriate. Checking the casualty's pulse is now not often carried out for casualties who are not breathing normally, with first aid trained individuals now taught to go straight to chest compressions (therefore administering artificial circulation) but checking of circulation may be done on less urgent patients. could be useful here.

Many organisations add a fourth step in the process of "D" for Deadly bleeding or Defibrillation, while others think of this as part of Circulation. Alternatives on methods to rate and preserve the ABCs depend on the competence of the first aider. Once the ABCs are secured, first aid attendants can begin additional treatments as required. Some companies train the same order of priority using the "3Bs": Breathing, Bleeding, and Bones (or "4Bs": Breathing, Bleeding, Brain, and Bones). While the ABCs and 3Bs are taught to be performed sequentially, many ailments might need the consideration of two steps simultaneously. this may mean and the provision of both artificial ventilation and chest compressions to someone who is not breathing normally and has no pulse but also the consideration of cervical spine injuries when ensuring an open airway. They would need to ensure that were available.

Preserving life

In order to maintain life, all people require to have an open airway - a clear avenue where air can pass through the mouth and nose via the pharynx and hence into the lungs without trouble. People who are conscious will look after their own airway without any thought, but casualties who are not responsive (with a GCS of less than 8) might be unable to maintain an adequate airway, because the part of the brain which automatically controls and monitors breathing in normal situations may not be working correctly.

If the patient was breathing normally, a first aid trained individual would usually then place them in the recovery position, with the casualty pulled over on their side, which also has the benefit of keeping the tongue from the pharynx. It also frustrates a common cause of death in unresponsive casualties, which is choking on vomit. may be used here to enable success.

The airway can also become blocked because of a foreign object being stuck in the pharynx or larynx, usually referred to as choking. The first aid trained person will be trained to treat this by using a combination of back blows and abdominal thrusts.

Once the airway has been made clear, the first aider would appraise to see if the casualty is breathing. If there is no breathing, or the patient is not breathing normally, in cases like agonal breathing, the first aid attendant would use what is possibly the most recognised first aid process - CardioPulmonary Resuscitation or CPR, which involves breathing into the casualty and manually massaging the heart to promote blood flow around the casualty's circulatory system.

Promoting recovery

The first aid trained person is also likely to be trained in the treatment of injuries such as cuts, grazes or bone fracture. They might be able to deal with the emergency totally (a small adhesive bandage on a paper cut), or may be required to support the condition of something like breaks, until the next phase of care (most often an ambulance) arrives.