Sibbald Training
First Aid At Work Requalification
This First Aid at Work requalification course (FAW) will enable you to become a first aider in your workplace and will certify you for 3 years.
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Course Aims
This 2-day First aid at work requalification course is suitable for people aged 16+ who have previously completed a 3-day First aid at work course and need to renew and refresh their first aid at work qualification for another three years in order to continue to act as a first aider for their workplace.
Course Content
In addition to the topics covered on an Emergency first aid at work course, this course covers treatment for a variety of injuries and medical conditions.
It gives learners the skills and confidence to help someone who:
- 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).
The two day course runs from 9am until 5pm each day, with a lunch break between the morning and afternoon sessions. We recommend that you bring your own lunch, as not all venues have food outlets on site or nearby.
Qualifications Obtained
On successful completion of this course, you will receive a first aid at work certificate which is valid for three years. This course meets the requirements specified by the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.
The HSE requires 12 contact hours for this course. Learners must attend all sessions to be eligible for assessment, which is done by continuous observation and questioning during the course.
It is your responsibility to ensure you have previously held a full three day first aid at work certificate; on successful completion of this course any certificate issued without this prior training will be invalid.