Who should attend?
This course is for people holding a current First aid at work certificate.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 Guidance 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 circumstances 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 circumstances 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".