EMERGENCY FIRST AID AT WORK PLUS FORESTRY SCOTLAND

Course content and qualifications

Our Forestry First Aid course includes the Forestry Commission recommend topics:

• Catastrophic bleeding (i.e. chainsaw injury)
  
• Crush injury
  
• Heat Injuries
• Snake bite (Adders)
  
• Lymes Disease

The Health & Safety Executive prescribe that Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) courses should be delivered over 6 hours, not including breaks. The First Aid at Work (FAW) courses should be delivered over 18 hours, not including breaks.

Our First Aid at Work plus Forestry (FAW+F) and Emergency First First Aid at Work plus Forestry (EFAW +F) covers all the subjects that are required within the traditional FAW and EFAW plus all the additional subjects within the Plus Forestry.

Certification: Successful candidates will receive the EFAW + F or FAW +F qualification which will cover the individual for 3 years.  If you already hold the EFAW or the full FAW qualifications, the additional + Forestry content can be covered in a separate 2 hour training session to give you the first aid skills required according to Forestry Commission First Aid Policy.

Our courses can be delivered on or offsite and we offer discounts for groups and onsite courses.

In addition to the FAW+F and the EFAW+F we can tailor into your training the QA level 2 Safe Movement and Handling course (1 day) or QA Level 2 Award in Principle of Manual Handling (Half Day) both of these course are accredited through Qualsafe and meet all the guidelines of the Health and safety Executive.

If you want more information on any of the First Aid courses offered by Sika First Aid in the Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundee, Fife and throughout Scotland then please do not hesitate to contact us.  We are willing to travel and we will do everything we can to help.

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