Emergency First Aid at Work - 1 Day Accredited Course

Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) Accredited Course

Duration: Full day course - 9:45 arrival for 10:00am start.

Course Overview:

The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities, and personnel to ensure their employees receive immediate attention if they are injured or taken ill at work. This one-day course will help you meet your regulatory requirements if your risk assessment indicates that first aid training covering emergency protocols only, is sufficient for your workplace.

Course Aims:

• The ability to act safely and effectively when an accident or emergency occurs

• Treatment and priorities of care for an unconscious patient

• Recognition and treatment of a person in seizure

• Recognition of cardiac arrest and delivery of Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

• Use of Defibrillators (AED)

• The ability to recognise and safely treat a patient who is choking

• The ability to safely and promptly treat a patient who is bleeding

• The ability to treat a patient safely and promptly with burns

• Other minor injuries

• The keeping records following an accident at work.

Course provided by Surrey Independent Living Charity, funded by NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).