Basic Emergency First Aid Responder: 2 Days – R1,125.00 ex VAT
Course Details:
Price
R1,125.00 ex VAT
Duration
Two days of facilitation including theoretical and practical elements
Certification
Delegates will be issued with a certificate of completion 14 days after successfully completing the course
Venues
Courses can be facilitated on site at your premises if you have a minimum of eight delegates, or at one of our training venues in Johannesburg, Durban, Gqeberha, or Cape Town.
Course Description
Injuries and medical emergencies can happen anytime, anywhere – including in the workplace. When they do, first aid is a critical element in the chain of survival that can mean the difference between life, disability, and death. In the case of a serious emergency like heavy bleeding or a heart attack, it is critically important that first aid is administered while waiting for paramedics to arrive. Without it, a casualty risks a complicated or delayed recovery, permanent injury, brain damage, or even death.
This is why, under the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act 85 of 1993, any business in South Africa employing more than 10 people is legally required to have a certified First Aider on site during working hours. Basic Emergency First Aid Responder is the new occupational first aid training skills programme accredited by the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) and the Department of Employment and Labour (DoEL).
Absolute Health Services’ first aid training blends theoretical learning with hands-on, practical exercises, giving First Aiders the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to act swiftly and effectively in a real emergency.
Basic Emergency First Aid Responder Course Content:
- Personal safety and scene safety
- Legal and ethical principals
- CPR and AED
- Choking
- Unconsciousness
- Shock
- Bleeding
- Fractures
- Heart attacks
- Strokes
- Burns
- Environmental emergencies
- Poisoning, bites, and stings
- Communication, handing over to the emergency services, and scene clean-up
Specific Tasks and Practical Skills (as per the QCTO curriculum)
1. Conduct basic primary and secondary assessments of the affected persons and identify and treat life-threatening conditions requiring immediate first aid care.
Responsibilities include:
- Incident/accident scene is assessed to identify potential hazards and necessary precautions are taken to ensure personal safety and safety of patient and bystanders.
- Additional emergency resources are requested/summoned where needed.
- Authorisation to enter the incident scene to provide first aid is obtained.
- Affected persons at an emergency scene are assessed and life-threatening conditions identified.
- Basic emergency first aid is provided to clear an affected person’s airway and basic life support is provided to persons who are not breathing through performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) until EMS arrives.
- Basic first aid techniques are applied to control/stop bleeding.
- Basic first aid techniques are applied to assist a person who is in shock.
- Basic first aid is provided to deal with choking.
2. Recognise additional injuries or illnesses and apply appropriate basic first aid care to mitigate pain and facilitate healing.
Responsibilities include:
- Secondary and ongoing physical assessments of the affected persons are done, and visible injuries and common symptoms of illnesses are identified.
- Basic first aid practices are applied to manage visible injuries such as wounds, burns, fractures, and sprains.
- Basic first aid practices are applied to manage common illnesses and make the affected person as comfortable as possible.
- Basic first aid practices are applied to manage heat-related stress.
- Basic first aid practices are applied to deal with animal and insect bites and stings.
- Basic first aid practices are applied to manage suspected poisoning.
- Standard procedures are applied to hand a treated person over to the next level of care post treatment actions are completed.
3. Practical Skill Activity Elements.
Responsibilities include:
- Assess an emergency incident scene and make it safe for entry and delivery of basic first aid.
- Assess and manage patients with breathing difficulties, perform CPR, use an AED, and manage a choking patient.
- Assess and manage bleeding, wounds, and burns.
- Assess and manage unconsciousness and place patients in the recovery position.
- Assess and manage traumatic injuries including fractures, or shock.
- Communicate with the patient and stakeholders.
- Hand over the patient to emergency medical service personnel with documentation.
- Perform post-incident clean-up of the scene.
- Communication, handing over to the emergency services, and scene clean-up.
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