On completion of training, successful candidates should be competent in:
- understand the role of the first aider including reference to the use of available equipment and the need for recording incidents and actions;
- understand the importance of basic hygiene in first-aid procedures;
- 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 and/or in seizure;
- administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
- administer first aid to a casualty who is wounded or bleeding and/or in shock;
- administer first aid to a casualty who is choking;
- provide appropriate first aid for minor injuries.
- recognising the presence of major illness and applying general first aid principles in its management.
In addition, candidates should be able to demonstrate the correct first-aid management of:
- soft tissue injuries;
- injuries to bones including suspected spinal injuries;
- chest injuries;
- burns and scalds;
- eye injuries including how to irrigate an eye;
- sudden poisoning and anaphylactic shock.
Students will receive:
- Wallace Cameron Manual
- Course Material
- Wallace Cameron certificate valid for 3 years
- Badge
Who Should attend?
Nominated workplace first aiders, or anyone wanting a comprehensive introduction to first aid. The course is suitable for all businesses, particularly those with large numbers of personnel which work in any environment from low to high risk, ensuring shift work/out of hours have provisions at all times. Please note if a business has more than one location each site must be assessed per category of risk and per number of personnel.
Extracts taken from the Approved Code of Practise and Guideance covering The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981
ACOP 3(1) "An employer shall provide, or ensure that there are provided, such equipment and facilities as are adequate and appropriate in the circimstances for enabling first aid to be rendered to his employees if they are injured or become ill at work.
ACOP 3(4) " An employer should make an assessment of first aid needs appropriate to the circimstances of each workplace.
ACOP 3(44) "Where the first aid assessment identifies a need for people to be avaialble for rendering first aid, the employer should ensure that they are provides in sufficent numbers and at appropriate locations to enable first aid to be administered without delay should the occassion arise. Where 50 or more people are employed, at least one such person should be provided unless the assessment justifies otherwise".
Certification
Every delegate who passes the examination receives a First Aid at Work Certificate which is valid for 3 years.
Additional Information:
On external courses light refreshments are provided but the delegates must provide their own lunch. Delegates must sit an oral and practical assessments