First Aid at Work
(3-Day Course)
Course Overview 📘
This First Aid at Work course is designed to help participants develop the essential knowledge, confidence, and practical skills needed to respond effectively to a wide range of workplace injuries, illnesses, and medical emergencies. The course provides clear guidance on how to assess and manage an emergency situation, protect casualties from further harm, contact the emergency services, and provide appropriate first aid until professional medical assistance arrives. Participants will learn how to respond to life-threatening emergencies as well as common workplace incidents, including unconsciousness, cardiac arrest, choking, bleeding, burns, fractures, seizures, allergic reactions, and sudden illness. This course promotes a calm, confident, and practical approach to workplace first aid, helping participants feel prepared to take immediate and appropriate action when an emergency occurs.
What You Will Learn 🎯
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
✅ Understand the roles and responsibilities of a workplace first aider
✅ Assess and manage an emergency situation safely
✅ Carry out a primary survey of a casualty
✅ Check a casualty for responsiveness and normal breathing
✅ Know when and how to contact the emergency services
✅ Perform effective adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation
✅ Use an automated external defibrillator safely
✅ Place an unresponsive but breathing casualty in the recovery position
✅ Recognise and respond to choking
✅ Manage minor and severe bleeding appropriately
✅ Recognise and provide first aid for shock
✅ Respond to burns, scalds, fractures, sprains, and strains
✅ Recognise and respond to head, neck, spinal, chest, and eye injuries
✅ Provide appropriate first aid for seizures, diabetes, asthma, and other sudden illnesses
✅ Recognise and respond to allergic reactions and anaphylaxis
✅ Understand how to manage poisoning and exposure to harmful substances
✅ Record and report workplace accidents and incidents appropriately
✅ Maintain personal safety and follow infection-control procedures
Who Should Attend? 👥
This course is suitable for employees who are required to act as qualified first aiders within their workplace, including:
🏢 Workplace first aiders and appointed staff
🏭 Manufacturing, construction, and warehouse employees
🏥 Health and social care staff
🏠 Care home and supported living teams
🤝 Support workers and personal assistants
🧑🏫 Education, childcare, and training professionals
🏋️ Gym, leisure, and sports centre staff
🛍️ Retail, hospitality, and customer-service employees
🚚 Transport, logistics, and delivery workers
👨💼 Managers, supervisors, and team leaders
🌟 Anyone responsible for responding to workplace emergencies
No previous first aid experience is required, making this course suitable for newly appointed workplace first aiders, employees requiring formal training, and individuals who need to renew or develop their existing first aid knowledge and skills.
Why Choose This Course? 🌟
This course gives participants clear and practical guidance on how to respond to injuries, illnesses, and medical emergencies that may occur in the workplace.
Participants will benefit from:
💡 Clear explanations of workplace first aid procedures
🫀 Practical guidance on performing CPR and using an AED
🩹 Step-by-step instruction on managing bleeding, wounds, and shock
🦴 Guidance on responding to fractures, sprains, strains, and spinal injuries
🫁 Advice on managing choking, asthma, and breathing emergencies
🚨 Guidance on recognising serious illness and contacting the emergency services
💉 Information on responding to seizures, diabetes, poisoning, and anaphylaxis
🛠️ Realistic workplace scenarios to build confidence and practical understanding
❤️ A calm, supportive, and inclusive approach to learning lifesaving skills
📝 Guidance on accident reporting, personal safety, and infection control
🏆 Suitable content for workplace compliance, staff development, and refresher training
By choosing this course, organisations can help ensure that designated first aiders have the knowledge, confidence, and practical skills needed to respond quickly and appropriately when a workplace accident or medical emergency occurs.
Course Availability 📅
Available as an in-house training session at your workplace at a time which is convenient for you.
Group Booking Enquiry 📩