First Aid at Work Requalification
(inc. Emergency Paediatric First Aid)

First Aid Qualifications Number: 256313
2 days Onsite First Aid Course
First Aid Certificate Valid For 3 Years

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First Aid at Work Requalification training course

This is a 2 day/12 hour requalification course for people who hold the 3 day/18 hour First Aid at Work qualification.

IMPORTANT: Learners must have a valid First Aid at Work certificate that is within 3 months before expiry to 1 month after expiry.  Learners are requalified from the same date on the certificate +3 years so no time is gained or lost by coming back early or late.

NOTE: this course now includes the Emergency Paediatric First Aid course syllabus. The certificate is valid for both qualifications.

This first aid course complies with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) requirements as required under the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. It covers all 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.

It is HSE Compliant and FAIB Level 3.

On successful completion this gives the learner the right to be an ‘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
• Access 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
• Administer first aid to a casualty with injuries to bones, muscles and joints, including suspected spinal injuries
• Administer first aid to a casualty with burns & scalds
• Administer first aid to a casualty with eye 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 extremes of body temperature