Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW)

Audience

This course is suitable for all workplaces with a HSE requirement.

Course outline

Certified for three years. Level 3 award in Emergency First Aid at Work (QCF) meets the requirements of the Health and Safety Regulations 1981.

This course is a one-day course, approved by Qualsafe Awards, an Ofqual-recognised awarding organisation. The course covers the practical skills needed by first aiders to competently deal with situations that require a basic level of first aid.

There will be a maximum of 12 candidates per course. This is an open course; however, courses can be booked at your venue on a date of your choice for just your staff. Contact us for details.

Training topics include

• Role of first aider
• Managing an emergency including after-care
• Basic life support for adults
• Choking in adults
• The recovery position and secondary survey
• Wound management and managing catastrophic bleeding
• Communication
• Fainting
• Shock – including bleeding
• Epilepsy
• Burns
• Eye injuries
• Health and safety regulations
• Treating the unconscious casualty
• First aid kits
• Use of the defibrillator.

Learning outcomes

• To become an HSE-approved first aider
• To understand the principles of being a first aider and carrying out safe care for the wellbeing of a patient
• To learn skills to help manage illnesses and accidents
• To be able to promote recovery, preserve life and prevent conditions from deteriorating.

Trainer

Jane Graham, Director, Hieda
Trained at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, Jane has 27 years of nursing background; 17 of which is in trauma and intensive care. Whilst in PICU, she had a number of different roles. Nine years of that included a role as a specialist retrieval nurse (CATS) that entailed travelling around the country to stabilize and bring back critically unstable children. To do this she learned advanced nursing and basic medical skills in resuscitation, all medical conditions, and trauma.

She went on to teach these skills to student nurses, qualified nurses and junior doctors as the Practice educator on intensive care. This role also involved lecturing regularly at South Bank University. She has been a DSL for Safeguarding at an independent boarding school where she was Lead Nurse. She is also an instructor for Qualsafe, an awarding body approved by the HSE.

Cost

• Member rate (individual): £80. Non-member rate (individual): £160
• Member rate (group of 12): £600. Non-member rate (group of 12): £1,200

*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Hieda CPD and events, please click here.

This course is regulated and approved by Qualsafe, which conforms with HSE guidance.