
Advanced Occupational First Aid and CPR Training
Why Attend
Accidents and medical emergencies can happen anywhere at any time, and effective first aid can make the difference between life and death. Not only does this course provide you with basic first aid knowledge and skills, you’ll also receive tools that help you to pass your knowledge on.
Completion of this course qualifies you as a trained first aid person, which helps your employer to comply with workplace health and safety legislation.
For Whom:
This course is ideal for Health and Safety Managers, Operation/Production Managers, Technicians, Machine Operators, Supervisors, Directors, and others who are involved in the day-to-day activities in the manufacturing sector.
Training Methodology
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises, illustrations and demonstrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
Course objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able to
- prepare and be well equipped to be confident and competent First Responder.
- comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
- create the awareness that knowledge in First Aid and CPR can make the difference between life and death
Advanced Occupational First Aid and CPR Training
Advanced Occupational First Aid and CPR Training
Course Outline
Adult One Rescuer CPR
- Heart and lung function
- Risk factors
- Prudent heart living
- Signals of heart attack
- Actions for survival
- One Rescuer CPR
- Chain of Survival
- Automated External Defibrillator
- Features of an AED
- Use of an AED
- Accessories required for an AED
Adult FBAO Management
- (FBAO – Foreign Body Airway Obstruction)
- Conscious
- Conscious becomes unconscious
- Found conscious
Patient Assessment
- Scene Survey and Danger assessment.
- Primary patient assessment for life-threatening priorities.
- Secondary assessment of the patient for other visible and suspected internal injuries.
- Prioritizing treatment of injuries in multiple injured victims.
- On the spot diagnosis using the senses of sight, touch, and smell
Wound Management
- Types of wound and bleeding
- Control of external bleeding
- Bandaging techniques for: –
- Head injury
- Eye injury
- Traumatic amputation
- Impaled foreign object
Shock Management
- Causative agents
- Signs and Symptoms
- Prevention, Recognition and treatment
For Whom:
This course is ideal for Health and Safety Managers, Operation/Production Managers, Technicians, Machine Operators, Supervisors, Directors, and others who are involved in the day-to-day activities in the manufacturing sector.
Training Methodology
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises, illustrations and demonstrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.