QA Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF)
Course date: 03/04/2018
Times: 09:00hrs until 17:00hrs approx (6hrs tuition time) Registration starts 08:45hrs
Venue: RescueSkills Training Centre, 21 Katana House, Fort Fareham Industrial Site, Fareham, Hampshire PO14 1AH
(Free parking available)
This course is aimed at people who wish to become Emergency First Aiders at Work. The course is HSE recognised under statutory legislation, and verified/certificated through Qualsafe Awards to give an Ofqual RQF regulated course for easy compliance with HSE regulations.
The course will give confidence and practice in the emergency life-saving techniques that are required in those first few minutes before professional help arrives, but does NOT include some conditions that occur in the workplace, such as asthma, severe allergic reactions, sprains/strains/fractures (including spinal injuries), head injuries and strokes, chest pains(suspected heart attacks), eye injuries, low blood sugar/diabetes, poisons. Where the first aid needs assessment shows that conditions/injuries such as these are likely to occur, learners should be booked onto a full "First Aid at Work" course.
Course contents
This course covers
- managing an incident, including emergency phone calls and record keeping/reporting of incidents
- legislation the emergency first aider needs to be familiar with
- how to prioritise patients
- unresponsive, non-breathing adults (CPR)
- * Please note that this course will include use of a defibrillator (AED) as standard, as specified in HSE eBulletin June 2016
- unresponsive, breathing adults (Recovery position)
- choking adults
- serious and minor cuts/bleeding
- clinical shock (blood volume loss)
- minor burns
- seizures
Course Duration
6 hours tuition time (Guided learning hours) minimum, not including breaks (Total qualification time: 7 hours).
Certification
Certificates of competence will be issued following successful completion of this course by the learners. Assessment of the learners skills will be by continuous assessment by the trainer/assessor followed by a multiple choice assessment set by Qualsafe Awards as our awarding organisation.
Certificates are valid for 3 years, with the strong recommendation from the HSE that qualified Emergency First Aiders undergo annual refresher courses of at least three hours.
Please note that in order to be awarded a certificate of competence in this course, learners must be able to demonstrate that they are able to perform the relevant skills - it remains the employers responsibility to ensure that learners sent on this course with a view to becoming workplace Emergency First Aiders are physically and mentally fit to be able to perform the skills that may be required of them during their duties as an Emergency First Aider (Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 - Guidance on Regulations, HSE Document L74, Regulation 3 - Section 55).
Re-Qualification
Learners may re-qualify their Emergency First Aid at Work qualification by attending another Emergency First Aid at Work course.
Further details on this course, and alternative dates may be found on the course webpage, at www.RescueSkills.co.uk
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