Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW)

Summary

The EFAW course involves at least 6 hours of training run over either 1 day or multiple shorter sessions. The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) recommends that all low-risk workplaces have staff with an Emergency First Aid at Work qualification on duty and high-risk workplaces have staff with First Aid at Work qualifications. This course can be tailored to any relevant situation to make it relevant to your workplace, for example:

• Office or Administration environments
• Construction industry
• Schools
• Hotels

Theoretical training and practical scenarios are used together to incrementally develop skills throughout the course. Come prepared to be active and participate in progressive scenario practice. The Emergency First Aid at Work course is presented and designed to show participants to be able to administer first aid, in a training environment, to injured or ill persons. During the course you will be taught the roles and responsibilities of a First Aider, as such you will be able to assess an incident ensuring the management of the casualty: be that an injured person who is unresponsive and not breathing and an injured person who is breathing normally.

Under the Health & Safety Regulation (First Aid) 1981, it is suggested that for every 25-50 employees there should be at least 1 EFAW-trained first aider.

Subjects Covered

• Understand the role and responsibility of a First Aider.
• Incident management – a systematic approach to managing first aid incidents.
• Being able to manage a casualty who is unresponsive and NOT breathing normally.
• Provide first aid to an unresponsive and breathing normally casualty.
• Managing a casualty who is in seizure.
• Airway Management – causes and treatment of unconscious collapse, Recognise and assist a casualty who is choking.
• Recognise and assist a casualty who is choking.
• Recovery positions in First Aid situations.
• Breathing Problems - cardiac arrest CPR in adults and children.
• Heart attack, Angina and other medical emergencies that require immediate first aid.
• AED / Defibrillator use.
• Manage a casualty with external bleeding.
• Manage a casualty who is in shock.
• Minor injury (cuts, splinters, minor burns).
• Accident reporting.

Occupation Examples

Types of Jobs/worplaces that need Emergency First Aid at Work or provisions

• Building Sites
• Office workplaces
• Self-employed trades
• Youth activity centres (Scouts/Guides/Cadets/DofE)
• Warehouses
• Haulage
• Public Retail Stores
• Schools/nurseries
• Hospitality Industry
• Manufacturing Facilities

The following positions could be available in your workplace, after completing the First Aid at work qualification. These positions are extra responsibilities on top of your current role and in some cases, organisations remunerate for extra responsibility in the workplace.

• Lead First Aider
• Deputy First Aider
• Shift First Aider
• First Aid Manager
• First Aid Compliance Auditer

Flexible Training

We can offer training to suit your personal or companies needs; for example for group bookings - we can offer flexible training solutions such as:

• Weekends
• Night training
• Shift orientated timings
• First Aid Lincoln Site training
• Your premises training
• Building/construction site training
• Flexible training syllabus that offers tailored training to:
• Age group
• Environment
• Hospitality Industry
• Manufacturing Facilities