First Aid at Work + Forestry
- Details
This is a three day training and assessment course. You’ll practise and learn the skills you need to be able to give first aid before the professionals take over.
This course concentrates on the skills you need in the Forestry industry.
Our course has been developed to comply with the Forestry Commission +F as per the First Aid at Work – Forestry Commission Policy.
- Syllabus
The First Aid Training Specialists offer you the opportunity to adapt the course to meet your workplace needs.
A range of subjects that the standard syllabus includes are:
- First Aid at Work Regulations and Rules
- Recording and Reporting Accidents and Injuries
- Initial Assessment
- Unconscious Breathing and Recovery Position
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest
- Heart Attack & Angina
- CPR
- How to use an AED (automated external defibrillator)
- Adult Choking
- Bleeding Management
- Shock
- Burns and Scalds
- Seizures and Epilepsy
- Breaks, Fractures and Splinting
- Strains and Sprains
- Embedded Objects
- Head Injuries
- Poisoning
- Hyper and Hypothermia
- Eye Injuries
- Bites and Stings
- Crush Injuries
- Chest Injuries
- Electrical Injuries
- Diabetes
- Anaphylactic Shock
- Stroke
- Asthma and Respiratory Problems
- Catastrophic bleeding
- Use of haemostatic dressings
- Use of manufactured tourniquets
- How to create an improvised tourniquet
- Use of Trauma Dressings
- Catastrophic first aid kit contents
- Lyme Disease
- Certification:
Practical assessment is ongoing by the instructor, along with a multiple choice question paper at the end of the day. A three year Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work will be issued to the learner, subject to successful assessment.
The HSE strongly recommend to all workplaces that successful candidates take annual refresher of three hours each year to maintain the qualification.
- Duration
The course consists of a minimum of 18 contact hours consisting of practical and theoretical activities.
- Numbers
Up to 12 candidates can attend and must be a minimum of 14 years of age.
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