Level 3 Award Emergency First Aid at Work

Emergency First Aid at Work    Level 3 Award

The Emergency First Aid at Work training course is designed to give you the confidence and skills that you would be able to act in a emergency first aid situation.

Learning how to save someone’s life is a truly wonderful skill to have. Whether it’s a member of your family, a colleague or a stranger in the street that experiences a heart attack, cardiac arrest, is choking or has a seizure this course will train and equip you to be able to help in a emergency situation.

Many people fear that they will panic when it’s a life threatening situation but on the training we cover in depth how to use a Defibrillator and how to deal with any worries and potential hazards of using a defibrillator.

You will leave the course feeling confident that you can provide First Aid in an Emergency situation, whether that’s an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing, or a casualty who is choking; you will learn how to put a breathing casualty into the recovery position, how to deal with bleeding and how to prioritise in an emergency and call for assistance from the Emergency services if appropriate.

This course can be delivered on site within the workplace, at factories, exercise studios, in the home, even outdoors weather permitting, community halls.

First Aid Training Harrogate has taught for numerous employers, private families, youth organisations, yoga studios, voluntary projects, charities, pre-school nurseries, bars, taxi firms, factories, child care professionals, individuals that want to learn and gain a qualification in emergency first aid.

We also now teach Pet First Aid courses.

Syllabus

A range of subjects are covered during the six hours of training including:

• What is First Aid?
• Legislation including first aid at work provision
• Reporting of a accident & incident 
• Responsibilities of the First Aider
• Consent & implied consent from a unresponsive casualty 
• Action in an Emergency
• Calling the emergency services
• Primary Survey
• Secondary Assessment including putting the casualty in the Recovery position
• Resuscitation (CPR) of a casualty who is not breathing including paediatric resuscitation
• Practise the safe use of a AED defibrillator. And what to do if the casualty has a Pacemaker fitted, has a hairy chest, piercings, is wearing a underwired bra or has a wet chest.
• Drowning
• Disorders of the circulation & respiration 
• Hypovolaemic shock-emergency condition in which severe blood loss makes the heart unable to pump due to the insufficient blood volume in the body.
• Choking
• Seizures & What is Epilepsy?
• Wounds & Bleeding including amputations and how to minimise blood loss and applying dressings and how to dress a wound when there is a embedded object. 
• Burns & scalds and the appropriate treatment
• Foreign Objects

If time permits on the day we will also cover emergency first aid treatment for Anaphylactic allergic reaction. 

Duration

A minimum of six hours teaching needs to be completed, which will consist of practical exercises such as practising on mannequins, choking vests, bandaging and other skills training with some theoretical activities.

A full colour Emergency First Aid manual will be provided for you to keep plus 2 quick reference guides.

Certification

During the course there will be some ongoing assessment of your practical & theoretical skills and knowledge to ensure that you meet the standards required to receive a three year Emergency First Aid at work certificate.

On successful completion of the course an externally validated certificate will be issued which is valid for 3 years. 

For reference the Health & Safety Executive recommends that all delegates undergo an annual refresher programme of three hours as a means of updating and refreshing skills so the First Aider remains confident to administer Emergency First Aid.