First aid at work requalification (M25) Training in United States of America

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