Blended Online 3 Day First Aid Course Bolton 12 February 2025

Important: the online first aid training can be completed at your own pace.

 

The course covers the most common serious illnesses and injuries that can occur in the work place. The skills learnt on this course can help save lives at work, home, and at play.

NOTE: this course includes the Emergency Paediatric First Aid course qualification.

The course syllabus is as required under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.

On successful completion the learner will be a ‘First Aider in the Work Place’ and they will be able to:

• Understand the role of the first aider including reference to:
  • The importance of preventing cross infection
  • The need for recording incidents and actions
  • Use of available equipment
  • Assess the situation and circumstances in order to act safely, promptly, and effectively in an emergency
• Administer first aid to a casualty who is unconscious (including seizure)
• Administer CPR including using an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
• Administer first aid to a casualty who is choking
• Administer first aid to a casualty who is wounded or bleeding
• Administer first aid to a casualty who is suffering from shock
• Provide appropriate first aid for minor injuries including small cuts, grazes, bruises, minor burns (inc. electrical) and scalds, splinters
• Administer first aid to a casualty with injuries to bones, muscles and joints, including suspected spinal injuries
• Administer first aid to a casualty with head injuries
• Administer first aid to a casualty with burns (inc. electrical) & scalds
• Administer first aid to a casualty with eye injuries
• Administer first aid to a casualty with chest injuries
• Administer first aid to a casualty with sudden poisoning
• Administer first aid to a casualty with anaphylactic shock
• Recognise the presence of major illness and provide appropriate first aid (including heart attack, stroke, epilepsy, asthma, diabetes)
• Provide appropriate first aid for hypothermia and heat stroke

Basic advice on first aid at work
Health and Safety - First-Aid - Regulations 1981. Guidance on Regulation
HSE First aid at work - Your questions answered