Learn to recognise the roles and responsibilities of a first aider as well as the life-threatening conditions that can occur.
What are the aims of a first aider? What is the primary survey? What is Hypoxia? What is the secondary survey? What is the chain of survival? What is Resuscitation (CPR)? What is Automated External Defibrillation (AED)? What is the respiratory system and how does it work? How to recognise the difference between mild and severe choking? How to aid an individual that is unconscious? What can cause unconsciousness? How to put a casualty into the recovery position? What is anaphylaxis? What is Asthma? What is the circulatory system and how does it work? What is shock? How to treat bleeds? How to correctly pack a wound? How to correctly use a tourniquet? What are some types of minor injuries? How to correctly aid an individual with an eye injury? How poisons can entre the body? How to treat burns? What are the different types of fractures? What should be in a first aid box?
Our First Aid at Work Level 3 course will help you to answer the questions above and more.
If you have more than 50 employees, only one first aider for every 100 employees is the guidance, so if you have 101 employees, you need at least two first aiders.
Through our First Aid at Work Level 3 course, you will gain an understanding of how to minimise infection within the workplace. You will learn how to use CPR and AED when needed. You will learn how to aid an unconscious casualty. You will learn how to aid an individual as they are having a stroke. You will learn the type of wounds. You will learn the different types of minor injuries that can occur. You will learn how to treat burns. You will learn the difference between concussion and compression. You will also learn what should be included inside of a first aid kit.
What you'll learn.
- What the roles and responsibilities of a first aider are.
- Understand what the primary and secondary survey is.
- Understand how to correctly use CPR and an AED.
- Recognise different injuries/ conditions that can occur in the respiratory system, circulatory system, and skeletal system.
- Understand what should and what should not be included in a first aid kit.
- Gain knowledge of when the emergency services should be called.
Who is Level 3 First Aid at Work Course for?
Our First Aid at Work Level 3 course is for everyone. This session will give you the knowledge of how to aid a casualty with a mild and severe condition/ injury until emergency services are called.
What are the learning outcomes?
By the end of the course, you will be able to…
- Discuss how to perform CPR correctly for adults, children, and infants.
- Discuss how to correctly put an adult, child, and infant into the recovery position.
- Recognise how to aid an individual during an asthma attack, shock, heart attack, stroke, anaphylactic shock, blood loss, insect stings, or animal/ human bites.
- Understand when the emergency services should be contacted.
- Gain knowledge of what should be included within the first aid kit.
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