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Renew Your Workplace First Aid Certification and Skills

This course is for those with a valid First Aid at Work qualification that wish to re-qualify for a further three years. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) strongly recommends that you complete this course before your current certificate expires or within one month of the original certificate’s expiry date. Delivered over two consecutive days.

The course syllabus is as specified by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and is fully compliant with the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981.

On completing your course, you will understand the first aider’s role, including:

  • Knowledge of Health and Safety Regulations.
  • Preventing cross infection.
  • Recording incidents and actions.
  • Using available equipment.

You will be able to assess situations and circumstances in order to provide First Aid safely, promptly and effectively in a range of emergencies and will cover:

  • An unconscious adult casualty (including seizure).
  • Administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to an adult, including using an AED.
  • An adult casualty who is choking.
  • An adult casualty who is wounded and bleeding.
  • An adult casualty who is suffering from shock.
  • Minor injuries (including small cuts, grazes and bruises, minor burns and scalds, small splinters).
  • Injuries to bones, muscles and joints, including suspected spinal injuries, chest injuries, burns and scalds, eye injuries, sudden poisoning, anaphylactic shock.
  • Recognising and administering first aid for major illnesses, including heart attack, stroke, epilepsy, asthma and diabetes.

Assessment

You will be assessed throughout the course. Evidence of knowledge and practical skills competence will be recorded in a student workbook for certification.

Certificate Duration

3 years

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Training more than one person on this course?

If you have a group to put through this course, it can be delivered at your own premises or a venue near you, on a date that suits your shift patterns. No travel, no overnight stays, and priced for the group rather than per person — which usually works out cheaper per head than booking individual places.

Tell us the numbers and roughly where you are, and we will come back with a written quote. Purchase orders and invoicing welcome.

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