First Aid

Safety Simplified is a member of the First Aid at Work Council.

First Aid training for business is about to change to better meet the needs of industry. Here at Safety Simplified we are ahead of the game and have already adjusted our basic course to meet the anticipated requriements.

Where an employer’s assessment of first aid needs indicates that no first aider is required, they should appoint a person to take charge of the first aid arrangements, including looking after the equipment and facilities, and to call the emergency services if required. The appointed person will not need to undertake first aid training to carry out this role and should not attempt to undertake first aid treatment that they have not been trained to do.

Where an employer’s assessment of first aid needs indicates that a qualified first aider (or more than one first aider) is required, they can choose from two training options depending upon identified needs – either an emergency first aid course or first aid at work course.

In this way, there will be two categories of personnel only – an appointed person and a first aider. The first aider will be qualified in one of the two training options.

Course
Initial Training
Refresher Training
Re-qualification
Appointed Person
None
None
None
Emergency First Aid (EFA)
6 hrs
3hrs
6 hrs
First Aid at Work (FAW)
18 hrs
6 hrs
18 hrs

 

At present we only offer the EFA and Care for Children (CfC) courses, but can add-on extras to meet specific needs that may be present in your workplace.

The structure of our course is as follows:

Care for Children Emergency First Aid
Registration Registration
Programme Introduction Programme Introduction
Development Topics Development Topics
i. Definitions and Explanations i. Helping those in need
ii. Medical Emergencies and Children ii. Emotional aspects of treating people
iii. Focus on the ABCD’S iii. Keeping up to date
iv. The Emotional Aspects of Caring For Children iv. Healthy lifestyle
v. Planning for First Aid Emergencies v. Recognising life threatening problems
vi. Knowledge Reviews vi. Primary care
Development Development – Primary Skills
Scene Assessment and Barrier Use  Scene Assessment
• Primary Assessment  Barrier Use
• Conscious Choking Child Primary Assessment
• Conscious Choking Infant Rescue Breathing – Adult Primary Care
• Rescue Breathing – Child Choking adult conscious/unconscious
• Rescue Breathing – Infant   Serious Bleeding Management
• One rescue CPR – Child Shock Management
• One Rescuer CPR – Infant Spinal Injuries
• Serious Bleeding Management  Development – Secondary Skills
• Shock Management  Injury Assessment
• Spinal Injuries Illness Assessment
• Injury Assessment Bandaging, scrapes, cuts & nosebleeds
• Illness Assessment Splinting
• Bandaging, scrapes, cuts & nosebleeds Scenarios
• Burns & Scalds Collapsed family member
• Anaphylactic Shock Person down in public
• Electric Shock Recreational accident
• Foreign Bodies in eyes, ears and noses (inc eye injuries) Major accident – multiple casualties
• Bites & Stings Collapsed friend
• Hypothermia Exam
• Hyperthermia
• Poisoning – plants, chemicals, etc
• Febrile Convulsions
• Epilepsy
• Asthma
• Sickle Cell
• Diabetes
• Meningitis & other serious sudden illness 
• Reporting & Documenting First Aid Emergencies
• Scenarios and exam

To each of the above we can also incorporate

  • Artificial External Defrbilator (AED) use and
  • Oxygen administration.

 

Requalification

A minimum of 6 contact hours in one day every 3 years. A first aider can attend a requalification course up to 3 months before the expiry date of their certificate. The new certificate will take effect from the date of expiry of the original certificate. The competency of candidates should be evaluated as for the initial course.

The content should include those elements covered by the initial course together with any relevant updates/ changes to first aid procedures.

Refresher training during intervening periods

Training courses should run over 3-4 contact hours every 12 months. The competency of candidates will be evaluated by continuous assessment. Candidates will have their original certificate stamped to indicate they have successfully completed refresher training.

Candidates should demonstrate their competence to:

  • act safely, promptly and effectively in an emergency;
  • administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation promptly and effectively;
  • administer first aid safely, promptly and effectively to a casualty who is unconscious;
  • administer first aid safely, promptly and effectively to a casualty who is wounded or bleeding.

Any relevant updates/ changes to first aid procedures will also be included.

For further information, please e-mail us.