- 3 Day In Person Course -
Highfields Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work
Pre-Requisites:
There are no pre-requisites to attend the initial Level 3 First Aid at Work. Learners must advise facilitator of any physical limitations – learners will be required to carry out a variety of practical activities that will require working at floor level.
If you are attending a Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work Requalification, please note, you will be required to submit an in-date First Aid at Work certificates on booking, to ensure you meet the course requirements. This evidence will be submitted to Highfields.
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of the course, you will:
- Understand your role and responsibility as a Qualified First Aider
- Know how to perform effective practical skills for CPR, Recovery Position, choking and many more
- Identify signs and symptoms of shock, along with treatment
- Deal with minor injuries
- Be able to work with fractures, sprains, strains and dislocations
- Understand a variety of major illnesses
Assessment & Quality Assurance
As part of our quality assurance process with Highfields Awarding Body, we will submit all completed assessment papers for moderation. We will also carry out recordings of all practical work which will also be submitted to Highfields for verification.
On review of the assessment evidence, Highfields will provide the electronic certificates – this process can take up to 4 weeks.
Certificates
Learners will receive a Highfields approved certificate, electonically, following full review.
Insight Training Academy Ltd and the staff have worked with Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance for over 15 years and undergo rigorous monitoring as part of our quality assurance process. We have highly qualified facilitators with over 30 years of First Aid experience and continue to deliver our sessions to an exceptional standard.
We aim to meet the needs and requirements of all learners who attend this course by carrying out effective and informative group activities and discussions.
This course is a requirement for learners nominated as Qualified First Aiders within their workplace. For those learners wishing to deliver First Aid courses, this course is mandatory, alongside the Level 3 Award in Education & Training (minimum).
Learners will undertake this qualification if/when they will be delivering First Aid training within their own organisation, providing they have obtained a Level 3 Award in Education and Training qualification.
Course Duration:
The initial Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work course is delivered over 22 hours, 3 days. Learners will be provided with refreshments during the course.
If you are attending the Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work Requalification, this course is delivered over 14 hours, 2 days.
Course Content:
| Introduction to Emergency First Aid at WorkWhat is First Aid?First Aid in the WorkplaceResponsibilities of the First Aider | 1hr |
| Assessing an incidentScene SurveyPrimary SurveySecondary SurveyCasualty Communication | 3hrs |
| Principles of ResuscitationThe respiratory systemCPRAdult Basic Life SupportCompression only CPRInfant and child CPRAED | 4hrs |
| Obstructed AirwayChoking | 1hr |
| The circulatory systemTypes of bleedingWounds and embedded objects | 2hrs |
| ShockSeizure | 1hr |
| Minor injuries – cuts, grazes, minor burns and scalds, foreign objects, small splinters | 2hrs |
| Bones, muscles and joints | 2hrs |
| Types of fracturesApplying a support slingHead injuriesSpinal injuriesFractures in children Dislocations Sprains and strains | 2hrs |
| Types of chest injuriesRecognition and treatment | 1hr |
| Major illness – heart attach, angina, stroke, diabetes, poisons, asthma, Abdominal traumaCrush injuries | 3hrs |
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