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First Aid Training

Essential Life-Saving Skills

Be ready for emergencies with key first aid skills. Learn to handle medical incidents confidently at work or home through practical, life-saving techniques.

4h 20m
Duration
Certificate
Upon Completion
First aid training with CPR demonstration

What This Course About?

Essential training in basic first aid practices

This course offers essential training in basic first aid practices, focusing on immediate and effective response to a variety of medical emergencies. You will learn how to assess situations, provide CPR, manage wounds, burns, fractures, and respond to shock or unconsciousness. With a strong focus on workplace and everyday safety, this course empowers individuals to act confidently and potentially save lives before professional help arrives.

Why Take This Course?

Emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere. This course provides the practical knowledge and hands-on techniques needed to respond quickly and responsibly, whether at work, home, or in public. It's ideal for anyone looking to enhance their personal safety and workplace readiness.

Skills You'll Gain

  • Assess emergency situations and respond appropriately
  • Perform CPR and other life-saving techniques
  • Treat wounds, burns, and fractures with confidence
  • Support colleagues and family in times of medical need
  • Meet workplace health and safety requirements

Course Content

Comprehensive curriculum covering all essential first aid skills

1 Emergency Scene Management

  • • Maintenance of personal safety
  • • Methods of safeguarding the emergency scene
  • • Methods of safeguarding an injured person
  • • The medico-legal implication of rendering first aid

2 Elementary Anatomy and Physiology

  • • Systems of the human body
  • • The manner in which systems relate to each other
  • • The operations of the system

3 Assess Emergency Situations

  • • Why assess emergency situations?
  • • Determining the cause of the emergency
  • • Classification of injuries
  • • Preparing the scene for assistance

4 Life-Threatening Situations

  • • Basic first aid treatment
  • • First aid treatment applied appropriate to the situation
  • • Improvised first aid equipment
  • • Universal precautions to prevent infections
  • • Current first aid practice
  • • Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
  • • Referral for further medical assistance

5 Common Injuries Treatment

  • • Treatment for fractures
  • • Muscles
  • • Circulatory problems
  • • Circulatory shock
  • • Burns
  • • Electric shock
  • • Poisoning
  • • Seizures
  • • Strokes
  • • Drowning
  • • Bleeding
  • • Major external bleeding
  • • Internal bleeding
  • • Wounds
  • • Preventing Infections
  • • Referral to medical assistance

Duration

4 hours 20 minutes

Delivery

Classroom/Online/Blended

Access Period

12 Months

Ready to Learn Life-Saving Skills?

Equip yourself with essential first aid knowledge that could make the difference in an emergency situation.