First Aid

First Aid

The Crucial Role of First Aid Provision

in the Workplace

Employers must make arrangements to ensure their employees receive immediate attention if they are injured or taken ill at work. It doesn’t matter whether the injury or illness is caused by the work they do, it is important that they receive immediate attention and if necessary an ambulance is called.

First aid can save lives and prevent minor injuries from becoming serious ones. Correct First-aid provision throughout the workplace should cover the arrangements that need to be made to manage injuries or illnesses occurring in the workplace.

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Ensure your workplace is prepared for any emergency with our tailored first aid services. We offer a range of solutions designed to meet your specific needs and ensure the safety and well-being of your employees.

  • Employers are required to assess first aid needs. This involves reviewing workplace hazards and risks, the size of the company and other relevant factors.
  • Employers must provide information about first-aid arrangements to their employees.
  • Employers should periodically review their first aid needs, particularly after any changes, our team are available to review the company’s first aid needs regularly.
  • All employers, self-employed people and people in control of work premises have duties under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR).
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First Aid provision should be ‘adequate and appropriate for the circumstances. As a minimum, a low-risk workplace such as a small office should have a first-aid box or container, care should be taken to ensure that these are suitably stocked and labelled correctly.

We can advise and supply appropriate First Aid equipment to suit your premise.

Many workplaces will need a trained first aider. A first-aid needs assessment will help employers decide what first aid arrangements are appropriate for their workplace. Whether you run a corporate business or are a school we have a course to suit your needs!

Our expert team of instructors can deliver first aid training to your door, anywhere in the UK on a date and time to suit you. We offer the following courses.

We run three key First Aid courses:
  • Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work (RQF) 3 day
  • Combined FAW & Paediatric (RQF) 3 day
  • Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid (RQF) 2 day
  • Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF) 1 day
  • Combined EFAW & EPFA (RQF) 1 day
  • Level 3 Award in Forestry First Aid (RQF) 1 day
  • Level 2 Award in citizenAID (RQF) 1 day
  • Level 2 Award in Basic Life Support and Management of Anaphylaxis (RQF)
  • Level 2 Award in Basic Life Support and Safe Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (RQF)
  • Level 2 Award in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillation (RQF)
  • Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work (Annual Refresher) (RQF)
  • Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid (Annual Refresher) (RQF)

Same day certification can be provided for all of the above courses upon learner’s successful completion of the course.

Emergency first aid at work (EFAW) training enables a first-aider to give emergency first aid to someone who is injured or becomes ill while at work.

Certificates for the purposes of first aid at work last for three years. Before their certificates expire, first-aiders will need to undertake a re-qualification course as appropriate, to obtain another three-year certificate. Once certificates have expired the first aider is no longer considered to be competent to act as a workplace first aider.