Aims & Objectives:
To train and certificate personnel in the First Aid at Work qualification
meeting with the requirements of the HSE (First Aid) Regulations (1981) and
the approved code of practise L47 guidelines.
Course Outline:
- Legal aspects of First Aid at Work
- Fractures
- Spinal injury
- Soft tissue injury
- Basic life support
- Unconsciousness and CPR
- Angina
- Heart attack
- Epilepsy
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Recognition and treatment of shock
- Poisons and harmful substances
- Controlling
- Minor and severe bleeds
- Crush injuries
- Casualty examination
- Management and transport of serious head injuries
- Eye injuries
- Burns i.e. scalds, chemical burns and electrical burns
- First aid equipment and records keeping
- Advice on hygiene
- Hepatitis B, HIV and Aids
