SIKA FIRST AID

First Aid Training in Glasgow & Central Scotland

Emergency First aid at work

The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 require all employers to make arrangements to ensure their employees receive immediate attention if they are injured or taken ill at work. This includes carrying out a risk assessment, appointing a suitable amount of first aiders and providing appropriate first aid training.

Over a 1 day period, Learners will develop the skills and knowledge needed to deal with a range of first aid situations, including: assessing an incident, managing an unresponsive casualty, CPR, heart attacks, choking, head and spinal injuries, fractures and more.

Course Outline

The QA Level 2 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (QCF) qualification is designed for individuals who wish to act as an emergency first aider in their workplace. Upon successful completion of this qualification, candidates will be equipped with the essential skills needed to give safe, prompt and effective first aid in emergency situations.What’s more, as a regulated qualification, employers can book this course for their employees and rest assured that they have fulfilled their legal responsibilities for providing quality first aid training, without having to undertake any lengthy due diligence checks introduced in the recent HSE changes

On completion of training, successful candidates will be able to:

Understand the role of the first aider, including reference to:

i) The importance of preventing cross infection
ii) The need for recording incidents and actions
iii) Use 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
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 from shock
Provide appropriate first aid for minor injuries (including small cuts, grazes and bruises, minor burns and scalds, small splinters).

Successful Learners will receive a QA Level 2 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (QCF) certificate as well a plastic aide memoire.

Our courses can be delivered on or offsite and we offer discounts for groups and on site courses.  We can offer Emergency First Aid courses in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Fife and throughout Scotland.

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