Emergency First Aid Awareness
The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid to be given to employees who are injured or become ill at work.
Description
Accidents happen, but when it comes to serious emergencies, a lot of people do not feel confident in their abilities to help. Lack of knowledge and confidence could cost someone their life. An Emergency First Aid Awareness course will equip you with the skills to keep a heart beating for that bit longer.
The aim of this course is to greater increase your knowledge of how to respond in emergency situations. The key points covered in this course are:
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Managing incidents
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Basic life support - CPR
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Control of bleeding
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Examination of a casualty
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Unconsciousness
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Head injury
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Managing incidents
- Basic life support
- CPR
- Control of bleeding
- Choking
- Examination of a casualty
- Unconsciousness
- Head injury
- Strains and Sprains
- Shock