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First aid at work (M25)
- Categories:
- Health & Safety and Compliance Health & Safety and Compliance
- Level:
- Fundamentals
- Code:
- TPCT-FA3-M25
- Exam:
- Not Applicable
Overview
This course is suitable for people aged 16+ who might need to provide first aid by responding to a wide range accidents, injuries and illnesses that they could encounter in their workplace.
It is ideal for organisations whose needs assessment has identified a requirement for additional first aid training, such as having employees with a disability or a medical condition.
In addition to the topics covered on an emergency first aid at work course, this course covers treatment for a variety of injuries and medical conditions.
Prerequisites
Customers must be able to carry out the practical elements from the course outline.
Minimum age 16.
What's included
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3 Days instructor led course
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Learning outcomes
- is unresponsive and breathing
- is unresponsive and not breathing, including how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED)
- is choking
- is bleeding
- is suffering from shock
- has burns
- feels faint
- has been poisoned
- has a head injury
- has hypothermia or heat exhaustion
- has an injury to a bone, muscle or joint (including spinal injuries).
Learners will also be able to help a casualty who is having a:
- seizure
- heart attack, including the administration of aspirin
- angina attack
- stroke
- asthma attack
- severe allergic reaction
- diabetic emergency.
The course also includes information on:
- assessing a casualty
- monitoring a casualty
- where to get help
- electrical incidents
- accident recording and reporting
- the control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH).
Course outline
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Welcome and introduction
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Dealing with an emergency
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Unresponsive and breathing adult
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Heart attack
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Angina attack
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Unresponsive and not breathing adult
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AED
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Choking adult
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Seizures
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Heat exhaustion
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Hypothermia
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Accident recording, reporting and COSHH
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Burns
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Harmful substances
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Hygiene techniques
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Bleeding and wounds - Bleeding heavily from a wound (Limb, embedded object in a wound, scalp/head)
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Shock
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Bleeding and wounds- Bleeding heavily from a wound (Palm of hand), crush injuries, penetrating chest wounds, abdominal wounds, amputation, small blisters and splinters, small bruises and wounds, nosebleed, eye wounds, bites and stings
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Diabetic emergency
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Asthma
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Severe allergic reaction
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Stroke
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Feeling faint
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Head injury
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Bone, muscle, and joint injuries
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