HSE FIRST AID AT WORK
3 day Course
The Health and Safety (First Aid)
Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and
appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid
to be given to employees if they are injured or become ill at
work.
At the end of the course, the student will be able
to:-
- Act safely, promptly and
effectively
- Understand your duties and
legal framework
- Maintain a simple factual
record
- Understand the importance of
hygiene in first aid
- Respond to the needs
of the casualty in the workplace
What the course will cover:-
- Health& Safety Executive criteria
- Responsibilities of a first aider
- HSE legislation & 1981 regulations (first aid)
- Aims of first aid
- Principles of diagnosis
- Priorities of first aid
- Making a 999 emergency call
- Overview of the respiratory system
- Foreign body airway obstruction
- Basic life support
- Overview of the circulatory system
- Wounds, bleeding (amputation and crush injuries.)
- Shock
- Unconscious casualty (recovery position)
- Overview of the skeletal system
- Fractures, dislocations and soft tissue injury
- Bandaging techniques
- Head, chest and spinal injuries
- Burns and scalds
- Medical emergencies
- First aid kits
- R.I.D.D.O.R. and accident books