First Aid at Work (for NI & UK Workplaces)

This course is designed to meet the requirements of the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 in a workplace where a qualified first-aider is required.

Successful completion of this course will enable the designated first aider to carry out appropriate first aid in an emergency situation at work.

This course will allow you to act as a qualified First Aider in your place of work.

On completion, you will be able to:

• Understand UK legislation

• Understand the role of the first-aider

• Carry out an assessment of the situation

• Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation and use an AED

• Administer first aid to a casualty with other life-threatening conditions or injuries

• Provide appropriate first aid for minor injuries

• Keep records and follow reporting protocol

Aims and principles of First Aid:

• Legislation

• Assessing the scene/Incident management/Emergency planning

• Infection control

• The recovery position

• Treatment of unconsciousness

• Resuscitation/CPR/defibs

• Heart attacks/cardiac arrest/angina

• Wounds and bleeding

• Burns

• Shock

• Strokes

• Seizures

• Chest injuries

• Crush injuries

• Poisoning

• Bones and joints

• Head injuries

• Eye injuries

• Heat stroke and hypothermia

• Other serious medical conditions: diabetic emergencies, anaphylaxis, asthma attacks

• Reporting and record-keeping

Classroom Presentation & Discussion, DVD & Practical Demonstration

3 Days (Can be completed on consecutive days or over a number of weeks)

12

First Aid at Work Certificate, valid for 3 years

• Participants complete Practical and Theory Assessment.

• Theory assessment is multiple choice questions.

• Participants must achieve a mark of 80% or higher in each element of the assessment.

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.