First Aid at Work - Refresher

People at work can suffer injury or sudden illness. It is important that employers have made arrangements to ensure their employees receive immediate attention if they are injured or taken ill at work. This course provides information on all aspects of first aid at work and will be of interest to employers, employees, first aiders and training organisations across all industry sectors.

Details

This course refreshes and updates the First Aid skills of those who need to renew their First Aid at Work (statutory) certificate and whose exisiting certificate is still valid.

The course aims to update and refresh the student's knowledge in as many areas of the full First Aid at Work syllabus as possible, while allowing time for revision and practice sessions in preparation for a final assessment.

Course Content

• Dealing with accidents and illness
• Using a First Aid kit
• Simple record keeping
• Resuscitation
• Treatment of an unconscious casualty
• Choking
• Treatment of a heart attack
• Control of bleeding
• Burns and scalds
• Poisoning
• Fractures
• Shock

Further Information

The First Aid at Work (statutory) course complies with the current Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. Successful students receive certificates to show that they are qualified to be First Aiders in the workplace for the next three years.

An HSE-approved certificate valid for three years is issued on completion of assessment