Member Event: Emergency First Aid at Work

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the role of the first aider

• The importance of preventing cross infection;

• The need for recording incidents and actions;

• Use of available equipment;

• Assess the situation and circumstances in order to act safely, promptly and effectively in an emergency;

• Administer first aid to a casualty who is unconscious (including seizure)

• Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation;

• Understand the use of an A.E.D

• Administer first aid to a casualty who is choking;

• Administer first aid to a casualty who is wounded and bleeding;

• Administer first aid to a casualty who is suffering shock;

• Provide appropriate first aid for minor injuries (including small cuts, grazes and bruises, minor burns and scalds, small splinters);