First Aid Training • Half Day (3 hours)

First Aid Awareness

Provide effective first aid to a casualty. This half-day course covers the first aider’s role, the primary survey, CPR and defibrillation, the recovery position and common emergency scenarios.

● Half day — 3 hours ● Delivered on-site ● Covers DNACPR awareness

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Delegate performing chest compressions on a CPR manikin

Putting a casualty into the recovery position

Abdominal thrusts practised with a choking training vest

Attaching defibrillator pads to a CPR manikin

Delegate performing CPR during first aid training

Checking the airway of a casualty during first aid practice

About the course

Everyday first aid confidence for your whole team

First Aid Awareness gives every member of staff the fundamentals: what to do first, how to keep a casualty safe, and how to respond to the most common emergencies. By the end of the course, delegates will:

Understand the role of a first aider
Be aware of the relevant legislation
Understand the associated documentation
Be aware of DNACPR forms
Know what a first aid kit should contain
Know how to conduct a primary survey
Know how to perform effective CPR
Understand how to deal with breathing casualties
Recognise how to perform a secondary survey
Know how to put a casualty into the recovery position
Understand how to provide first aid in some common situations

Trainer demonstrating CPR compressions on a manikin

Casualty placed in the recovery position on a mat

Delegates using an AED trainer on a CPR manikin

Delegate wearing a correctly applied arm sling

Delegate placing a casualty into the recovery position

CPR practice in front of the training group

What you’ll cover

Full course content

Eight areas build from the basics to emergency scenarios your staff may face.

Introduction

What is first aid?
Aims of the first aider

Legislation

Health and Safety at Work Act
RIDDOR

Documentation

First aid books
DNACPR forms

First Aid Kits

Contents

Primary Survey

DRSABCD
Danger
Response
Shout / summon
Airway
Breathing

Unconscious and Not Breathing Casualties

CPR
Defibrillation
Stopping CPR

Breathing Casualties

Secondary survey
Top to toe exam
Recovery position

Emergency Scenarios

Head injury
Choking
Wounds and bleeding
Burns and scalds
Seizures

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We bring First Aid Awareness training to your setting

Delivered on-site at your workplace or setting, nationwide, with pricing on application. Tell us your dates and delegate numbers and we’ll reply quickly with a quote.

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