Emergency First Aid at Work +F Training

Emergency First Aid at Work +F

First Aid Certificate Valid For 3 Years

The certificate is also valid for this qualification:
      Emergency Paediatric First Aid

Regulators/Accreditations
First Aid Industry Body (FAIB)	Level 3
Ofqual Regulated Qualification (Ofqual)	Level 3	Option: for details contact us or see Regulated Options

Accepted By
Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted)

This is the +F first aid requirement added to the 1 day Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) course.

The price includes the 1 day EFAW course and the additional +F first aid topics.  There is nothing else to pay.

Additional topics covered:

• Dealing with a major bleed inc. clotting agents, tourniquets: genuine and improvised
• Crush injury
• Lyme disease (and tick removal)
• Hypothermia (we also include heat exhaustion and heat stroke)

The HSE compliant 1 day Emergency First Aid at Work / EFAW training course must be a minimum of 6 hours training time to learn first aid with a mixture of theory, individual and group work, and practical sessions.

This course is accepted by the HSE and it is Level 3.

No prior knowledge or experience of first aid is required.

The course syllabus is as required under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.
On successful completion this gives the learner the right to be an ‘Emergency First Aider in the Work Place’.

On completion of training successful candidates 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 unresponive (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

NOTE: this course now includes the Emergency Paediatric First Aid course syllabus. The certificate is valid for both the adult and child emergency first aid qualifications.

(This course is accepted by the SIA for the security industry door supervisor first aid course requirement from April 2021.)

First Aid Qualification Number: 265319

Different methods of assessment are available for this course including:

- 100% practical assessment: no end-of-course test

- practical assessments and an end-of-course test

Please contact us to discuss what is most suitable for your staff.