Adult & Paediatric Life Support & First Aid Courses
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KCM Training uses Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance to validate and quality assure your training. This means that not only does your employer ensure that training meets the required standards for first aiders in the workplace, it also gives successful candidates personal and transferable certification from a credible and recognised awarding body.
This is a first aid qualification which enables learners to give emergency first aid to someone who becomes ill at work. This particular award is suited to working environments that have minimum hazards along with a low number of employees.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for people who want to receive training in emergency first aid and is especially suited for nominated first aiders in smaller, low risk working environments.
What will I learn about?
The content of this course provides basic life saving first aid and workplace health and safety regulations, covering the following:
- Health and safety (first aid) regulations
- Managing an incident
- The priorities of first aid
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- Resuscitation
- Shock
- Choking
- Seizures
- Bleeding
- Common workplace injuries
How long is the course?
This is a 6 contact hour course that is usually run over a single day. (Modular courses can be run as necessary, please contact us for more details and to discuss your individual or organisational training needs).
This includes all the features of EFAW and also equips learners with the first aid knowledge and skills to tend a range of specific injuries and illnesses. This particular award is most suited to working environments that have a high hazard count and/or high numbers of employees.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for people who want to receive our most thorough first aid training and is especially suited for nominated workplace first aiders looking to gain comprehensive, certified HSE approval.
What will I learn about?
The content of the course will cover how to deal with the following:
- Accidents and illness
- Using a first aid kit
- Simple record keeping
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- Heart attacks
- Resuscitation
- Shock
- Choking
- Bleeding
- Burns and scalds
- Poisoning
- Fractures
- Seizures
- Asthma
- Severe allergic reaction
- Eye injuries
- Low blood sugar
- Fainting
How long is the course?
This is an 18 contact hour course that is usually run over three days. (Modular courses can be run as necessary, please contact us for more details and to discuss your individual or organisational training needs).
This first aid qualification provides theoretical and practical training in first aid techniques that are specific to infants aged 0 to 1, and children aged from 1 year old to the onset of puberty. Learners will become familiar with the role of the paediatric first aider and be able to assess and react appropriately to an emergency situation.
Who should attend?
This course is for people working with younger children – those up to eight years old – or working towards an NVQ in Childcare and Education.
What will I learn about?
The course covers how to deal with accidents and emergencies involving young children as well as adults.
- First aid kit
- Action planning
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- Resuscitation (Child, infant and adult protocols)
- Choking (Child, infant and adult protocols)
- Asthma and diabetic emergencies
- Head injuries
- Seizures
- Bleeding
- Burns
- Sprains, strains and fractures
- Poisoning, bites and stings
- Foreign objects
- Childhood conditions (e.g. measles, meningitis, croup)
How long is the course?
This is a 12 contact hour course usually run over 2 consecutive days.
This new course is aimed at people who are required to be first aid qualified but don’t need the full 3-day First Aid at Work qualification. Topics covered are similar to the Emergency First Aid at Work course, but focus more on injuries associated with sporting or group events.
Who should attend?
This qualification is particularly suited to sports club members, cadet organisations and other adult and youth groups where a duty of care exists on behalf of organising staff.
How long is the course?
The qualification is in Emergency First Aid (Activities) and is a 6 contact hour course that can be modularised as necessary according to your individual or organizational training needs. Please call us to discuss your bespoke options.
This qualification provides learners with skills to further their first aid training. It is recommended as training for first aiders in the workplace environment who have access to a defibrillator. No previous first aid knowledge is necessary to attend an AED course.
Who should attend?
This course is suitable for anyone interested in furthering their emergency first aid skills, or who takes part in an organised first aid scheme. For health care workers, this course serves as a basic module.
What will I learn about?
An AED (automated external defibrillator) in the workplace is an invaluable addition to health and safety provision for your employees as they are proven to save lives. With installation of any AED we highly recommend you train personnel in its usage. No previous first aid knowledge is necessary to attend an AED course. Our course teaches the essential skills required by an AED operator and gives students the confidence to know what to do in an emergency.
Course includes:
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- Resuscitation
- Heart attacks
- Getting to know the AED (any type)
- Operating the AED
How long is the course?
This is a 4 contact hour course usually run as a half-day session.
