Basic First Aid

This is a three hour, hands on workshop. Over the course of the programme, and dependent on your chosen format, a selection of the following topics will be covered:

•   What is first aid?
•   How to call emergency services
•   Maintaining safe systems of work
•   Brief introduction to circulation, wounds and bleeding
•   Management of nose bleeds etc
•   Application of dressing to wounds
•   Management of heart attack
•   Introduction to CPR
•   Management of chocking casualty - Heimlich manoeuvre
•   Management of unconscious casualty - recovery position
•   Management of burns and application of burns dressings