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Employer mandated training · Awareness level, all staff

Emergency first aid: the knowledge, not the certificate

What to do in the first three minutes, and an honest statement that this cannot make you a first aider.

  • 2modules
  • 1.5CPD hours
  • 70guided minutes
  • Freealways

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About this course

This course teaches what to do in the first three minutes of an emergency. It states plainly, at the top rather than in a footnote, that it cannot make you a qualified first aider and does not satisfy an employer's first aid requirements.

Those require a practical, assessed course with a competent provider. What this does is make sure that the person who happens to be standing there knows the sequence, and that is not nothing: most people freeze because they have never had the order in their head.

What you will be able to do

  • Carry out a primary survey in the correct order
  • Recognise the conditions where minutes matter and act
  • Place an unresponsive breathing casualty in the recovery position
  • Know precisely what this course does and does not qualify you to do

Modules

  1. 1 The first three minutes 35 min study · 4 min script · 4 question knowledge check
  2. 2 Bleeding, burns, seizures and choking 35 min study · 3 min script · 4 question knowledge check

Assessment and certificate

A knowledge check and a final assessment at 80 per cent, unlimited attempts.

A free digital certificate with a verification code and 1 CPD hour. It evidences awareness level knowledge ONLY. It is not a first aid qualification, it does not make you a designated first aider, and it does not satisfy the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981. Those require a practical assessed course.

Questions

Does this make me a first aider?

No. Designated first aider status requires a practical, assessed course from a competent provider, and employers must meet the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 based on a first aid needs assessment. This course teaches the knowledge so that a practical course starts from a higher base, and so that whoever is standing there knows the sequence.

Can I be sued for helping?

In practice this fear stops far more help than it should. The Social Action, Responsibility and Heroism Act 2015 requires a court to consider whether a person was acting for the benefit of society and intervening in an emergency. Acting reasonably within your competence, and not attempting things you have not been trained in, is the sensible position.