Health and Safety
We offer the training courses for the following:
- Emergency First Aid
- First Aid at Work
- First Aid at Work Reassessment
- Manual Handling and Safe Lifting
- Working at Heights – Awareness & Risk Assessments
- Food Hygiene
Emergency First Aid
Certification is valid for 3 yearsContent
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Assess situations and carry out appropriate action including informing emergency services
- Carry out artificial ventilations and chest compressions
- Place a casualty in the recovery position and know when to use this position
- Clear obstructed airways
- Control severe bleeding
- Recognise and treat shock
- Deal with chemical contamination
- Understand the requirements for a first aid kit and how to report accidents in the workplace
- Recognise and treat head injuries
- Deal with burns and scalds
- Deal with poisons
- Deal with fractures
Duration - One Day
Manual Handling – Safe Lifting
- Job planning to avoid manual handling
- Posture while working
- How poor working practices can lead to ill health
- Lifting and lowering
- Carrying
- Use of mechanical aids
- Pulling
- Pushing
- Two-person operations
Duration - half a day or one day
First Aid at Work
- Assessing situations and taking appropriate action, including informing emergency services
- Artificial ventilations and chest compressions
- Recovery position
- Spinal injury recovery position
- Clearing obstructed airways
- Controlling severe bleeding
- Recognising and treating shock
- Requirements of a first aid kit
- Reporting accidents in the workplace
- Head injuries
- Major illnesses
- Burns, scalds and poisons
- Chemical contamination
- Strains, sprains, dislocations and fractures
- Moving casualties safely
- Miscellaneous conditions
Duration - 3 or 4 days
First Aid at Work - Reassessment
- Content and objectives as the First Aid at Work, drawing attention to any changes in first aid techniques since previous training
Duration - Two days Trainees must be current holders of a nationally recognised First Aid at Work certificate
Contact us for further details