When someone is injured or falls ill at work, what happens in the first few minutes can decide whether they recover fully. Octopus Consultancy’s first aid training gives your workplace first aid team the knowledge, skills and confidence to respond to emergencies until professional help arrives.
Objectives of the training
- Preserve life. Recognise and respond to life-threatening emergencies.
- Prevent further harm. Keep the casualty and others safe and stop the condition from getting worse.
- Promote recovery. Give care that supports the casualty’s recovery and hand over effectively to medical services.
Course content
- The role and responsibilities of a workplace first aider
- Scene safety and assessing a casualty
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the recovery position
- Choking in adults and children
- Bleeding, wounds and shock
- Burns and scalds, including chemical burns
- Fractures, sprains and head or spinal injuries
- Medical emergencies: fainting, seizures, asthma, diabetic emergencies and heart attack
- Poisoning and exposure to hazardous substances
- Contents and maintenance of first aid kits, and record-keeping
Training is practical. Participants spend most of the time practising techniques on manikins and in realistic scenarios based on the hazards of your workplace.
Is your workplace ready for an emergency?
Training is only part of first aid readiness. As part of the course we can review:
- Your risk. Whether your activities, location or working hours call for extra first aid provision.
- Cover. Whether you have enough trained first aiders across all shifts, including when people are on leave.
- Equipment. Whether first aid boxes are well stocked, visible and checked regularly, and whether you need a first aid room.
- Procedures. Whether everyone knows who the first aiders are and how to call for help.
Benefits of first aid training
Prompt first aid can save a life or prevent permanent disability. Trained staff also become more alert to hazards and better at preventing accidents at work and at home, and your organisation meets its legal duty under the First Aid Rules.
