ITC Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF)

“Employers must make sure employees get immediate help if taken ill or injured at work.

The law applies to every workplace and to the self-employed.

You must have:

• a suitably stocked first aid kit

• an appointed person or people to take charge of first aid arrangements

• information for all employees telling them about first aid arrangements”

hse.gov.uk

Employers have to risk assess their workplace first aid requirements, further advice on this can be found by clicking the link here.  

If the risk assessment indicates that employees may be faced with life-threatening incidents where they have to manage the casualty for up to 10 minutes, or deal with very minor incidents that will not require medical assistance, then the Emergency First Aid at Work course meets this need.

Topics include:

Roles & responsibilities of the first aider

Assessing incidents safely

Dealing with collapse (with and without breathing)

Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Choking

Bleeding

Shock

Seizures

Burns and scalds

Minor workplace incidents

Using first aid kit.

This qualification is designed to provide essential life saving skills.  Typical delivery methods are predominantly practical and the course is assessed by continual observation of candidate performance