Course Content

• Course Introduction
  • Course introduction
  • Course overview
• First Aid at Work Regulation
  • First Aid At Work Rules and Regulations
  • The Accident Book
  • RIDDOR and Accident Reporting
  • COSHH Regulations
  • RIDDOR Injury Statistics - 2023/24
  • First Aid in the Workplace Injury statistics 2024 to 2025
• The Human Body
  • Introduction to the human body
  • Anatomical Terminology
  • Respiratory Injuries Part One
  • Respiratory Injuries Part Two
  • The Circulatory System
  • Blood Vessels
  • The Skeletal System
  • The Nervous System
  • The Muscular System
• First Aid the Initial Steps
  • Fears of First Aid
  • Asking permission and consent to help
  • Calling the Emergency Services
  • What3Words - location app
  • Waiting for the E.M.S to arrive
  • Scene Safety
  • Chain of Survival
  • DRcABCDE approach
  • Using gloves
  • How to use face shields
  • Hand Washing
  • Waterless hand gels
  • Initial Assessment and Recovery Position
  • BSi First Aid Kit
• Cardiac Arrest and Heart Conditions
  • Adult CPR Introduction
  • RCUK & ERC Resus Guidelines
  • Heart Attack
  • Heart Attack Position
  • Aspirin and the Aspod
  • When to call for assistance
  • Respiration and Breathing
  • Pulse Points
  • Three Steps to Save a Life (2025)
  • Adult CPR
  • CPR and the female casualty
  • Effective CPR
  • Improving breaths
  • Improving compressions
  • Compressions Only CPR
  • CPR Hand Over
  • Seizures and Cardiac Arrest
  • Drowning
  • Near and secondary drowning
  • AED Introduction
  • Bra Off Defib On
  • Using an AED - brief overview and demonstration
  • Real time CPR scenario
  • Paediatric CPR for the untrained
• Choking Management
  • Choking Recognition
  • Adult Choking
  • Choking becoming unresponsive
• Bleeding Control
  • Types of Bleed
  • Serious Bleeding and Bandaging
  • Excessive Blood Loss
  • Excessive Bleeding Control
  • Embedded Objects
  • Nose bleeds
  • Other Types of Injury
  • The Healing Process
  • Applying Plasters
• Shock and Spinal Injury
  • Shock
  • Spinal Injury
  • Opening the airway Jaw Thrust
  • Stabilising the spine
  • Spinal Recovery Position
• Injuries
  • Secondary Care Introduction
  • Injury Assessment
  • Strains and Sprains and the RICE procedure
  • Adult fractures
  • Types of fracture
  • Splints
  • Dislocated Shoulders and Joints
  • Types of head injury and consciousness
  • Eye Injuries
  • Foreign object in the eye
  • Burns and burn kits
  • Treating a burn
  • Blister Care
  • Electrical Injuries
  • Abdominal Injuries
  • Chest Injuries
  • Flail chest
  • Heat emergencies
  • Cold emergencies
  • Dental Injuries
  • Bites and stings
  • Treating Snake Bites
  • Splinters
• Illness
  • Illness assessment and SAMPLE
  • Allergic reactions and Anaphylaxis treatment
  • Adrenaline nasal spray for anaphylaxis
  • Minor allergic reactions
  • Epilepsy
  • Epilepsy treatment
  • Asthma
  • Asthma Spacers
  • Accuhaler®
  • Hyperventilation
  • Diabetes
  • Stroke
  • Poisons and Food Poisoning
  • Dealing with Fainting
• Course Summary
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Your practical lesson
  • Course Summary