[EFAW] Emergency First Aid at Work
- Roles & Responsibilities: Understanding the duties and legal requirements of a first aider.
- Incident Management: Assessing the scene, ensuring safety, and prioritizing actions.-
- Basic Life Support (BLS): CPR for adults and the basic use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED).
- Unresponsive Casualties: How to manage someone who is unconscious, including putting them in the recovery position and dealing with seizures.
- Breathing Issues: Responding to choking in adults.
- Bleeding & Shock: Controlling severe bleeding and managing shock.
- Injuries & Burns: Treating minor cuts, bruises, splinters, burns, and scalds.
- Medical Emergencies: Recognizing and responding to conditions like heart attacks, strokes, asthma, diabetes, and anaphylaxis.
- Communication: Effectively communicating with casualties and emergency services.
- Record Keeping: Maintaining essential accident records and reporting.
- Putting someone in the recovery position.
- Applying dressings to wounds.
- Using an AED (theory and practical).
- Administering an auto-injector (like an EpiPen) for anaphylaxis (often optional/additional).