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The Three Day First Aid at Work Training Course (FAW)
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Course Key Facts
Students successfully completing this course will be entitled to act as a first-aider in the workplace. The First Aid at Work training course covers all of the material in the one day Emergency First Aid at Work course but further equips the first-aider to apply first aid to an extensive range of injuries and major illnesses. This course complies with the Health and Safety (First Aid) regulations 1981 (Appendix 5 Content of a First Aid at Work (FAW) course).
Course Contents/Learner Outcomes
Course Structure
Unit one: Emergency First Aid in the Workplace
Unit two: Recognition and Management of Illness and Injury in the Workplace
Unit one covers the following topics
- Roles and responsibilities of a First Aider
- Assessing a first aid incident prior providing treatment
- Dealing with an unconscious casualty (including the recovery position and managing seizures)
- Resuscitating a casualty who isn't breathing normally (including CPR and safe use of defibrillators)
- Clearing the airway of a casualty who is choking
- Controlling bleeding and dealing with wounds
- Managing a casualty who is in Shock
- Dealing with minor injuries (including cuts, grazes, bruises, minor burns/scalds and splinters)
Unit two cover the following topics
- Conducting the secondary survey
- Dealing with injuries to bones, joints and muscles
- Managing suspected neck and spinal injuries
- Chest injuries
- Burns and scalds(including electrical and chemical burns)
- Treating eye injuries
- Sudden poisoning
- Anaphylaxis
- Major illnesses (including heart attack, stroke, epilepsy, asthma & diabetes)
- Dealing with serious bleeding (including embedded objects, sucking chest wounds & amputations)
Course Accreditation/Certification
Successful students will be awarded a CHT Level 3 First Aid at Work certificate which will remain valid for three years (although the Health and Safety Executive do recommend annual refresher training for all first aiders). Accreditation and internal quality assurance are provided by Castle Hill training in accordance with the Health & Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. Although it is not a HSE requirement, Ofqual certification can also be provided for an additional charge per student.
Other useful course information
Course duration 21 hours (including breaks) over three days.
You can send up to 12 students on each course.
Students are assessed by two multiple choice test and completion of several practical assessments.
The course requires students to be able to read and write English, if this going to be a barrier to learning please contact the training company well in advance of the course to discuss how support can be provided.
There is a practical element to the course and students must be physically fit enough to perform CPR on the ground and roll casualties into the recovery position.
Because of the practical work, it is recommended that students wear loose comfortable clothing (ideally trousers).
Castle Hill Training's three day First Aid training courses available in Barnsley and nationwide.
Students successfully completing this course will be entitled to act as a first-aider in the workplace. The First Aid at Work training course covers all of the material in the one day Emergency First Aid at Work course but further equips the first-aider to apply first aid to an extensive range of injuries and major illnesses. This course complies with the Health and Safety (First Aid) regulations 1981 (Appendix 5 Content of a First Aid at Work (FAW) course).
Course Contents/Learner Outcomes
Course Structure
Unit one: Emergency First Aid in the Workplace
Unit two: Recognition and Management of Illness and Injury in the Workplace
Unit one covers the following topics
- Roles and responsibilities of a First Aider
- Assessing a first aid incident prior providing treatment
- Dealing with an unconscious casualty (including the recovery position and managing seizures)
- Resuscitating a casualty who isn't breathing normally (including CPR and safe use of defibrillators)
- Clearing the airway of a casualty who is choking
- Controlling bleeding and dealing with wounds
- Managing a casualty who is in Shock
- Dealing with minor injuries (including cuts, grazes, bruises, minor burns/scalds and splinters)
Unit two cover the following topics
- Conducting the secondary survey
- Dealing with injuries to bones, joints and muscles
- Managing suspected neck and spinal injuries
- Chest injuries
- Burns and scalds(including electrical and chemical burns)
- Treating eye injuries
- Sudden poisoning
- Anaphylaxis
- Major illnesses (including heart attack, stroke, epilepsy, asthma & diabetes)
- Dealing with serious bleeding (including embedded objects, sucking chest wounds & amputations)
Course Accreditation/Certification
Successful students will be awarded a CHT Level 3 First Aid at Work certificate which will remain valid for three years (although the Health and Safety Executive do recommend annual refresher training for all first aiders). Accreditation and internal quality assurance are provided by Castle Hill training in accordance with the Health & Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. Although it is not a HSE requirement, Ofqual certification can also be provided for an additional charge per student.
Other useful course information
Course duration 21 hours (including breaks) over three days.
You can send up to 12 students on each course.
Students are assessed by two multiple choice test and completion of several practical assessments.
The course requires students to be able to read and write English, if this going to be a barrier to learning please contact the training company well in advance of the course to discuss how support can be provided.
There is a practical element to the course and students must be physically fit enough to perform CPR on the ground and roll casualties into the recovery position.
Because of the practical work, it is recommended that students wear loose comfortable clothing (ideally trousers).
Castle Hill Training's three day First Aid training courses available in Barnsley and nationwide.
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