First aid at work requalification (M25) Training

Customers must be able to carry out the practical elements from the course outline.

Customers must have previously attended a 3-day First Aid at Work course. Minimum age 16.

• is unresponsive and breathing
• is unresponsive and not breathing, including how to use of an automated external defibrillator (AED)
• is choking
• is feeling faint
• has been poisoned
• has a head injury
• has hypothermia or heat exhaustion
• has an injury to a bone, muscle or joint (including spinal injuries).

Learners will also be able to help a casualty who is having a:

• seizure
• heart attack including the administration of aspirin
• angina attack
• stroke
• asthma attack
• severe allergic reaction
• diabetic emergency.

The course also includes information on:

• assessing a casualty
• monitoring a casualty
• where to get help
• electrical incidents
• accident recording and reporting
• the control of substances hazardous to health (COSHH).

• Welcome and introduction

• Dealing with an emergency

• Hygiene techniques

• Bleeding and wounds

• Bleeding heavily from a wound (Limb, embedded object in a wound, palm of hand, scalp/head)

• Shock

• Unresponsive and breathing adult

• Heart attack

• Angina attack

• Unresponsive and not breathing adult

• AED

• Choking adult

• Heat exhaustion

• Hypothermia

• Accident recording, reporting and COSHH

• Burns

• Harmful substances

• Asthma

• Severe allergic reaction

• Diabetic emergency

• Seizures

• Stroke

• Feeling faint

• Head injury

• Bleading and wounds - Crush injuries, prenetrating wounds, abdominal wounds, amputation, small blisters and splinters, small bruises and wounds, nosebleed, eye wounds, bites and stings

• Bone, muscle, and joint injuries