First Aid Annual Skills Update (online)
About This Course
First Aid Annual Skills Update (Online)
Keep your first aid skills current and your confidence high with our online First Aid Annual Skills Update course. Designed for existing First Aid at Work (FAW) and Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) certificate holders, this 2-3 hour refresher revisits the essential life-saving skills that may be needed in a workplace emergency.
Annual refresher training is strongly recommended to help first aiders maintain competence between three-yearly requalification courses.
Topics include CPR and AED use, the unresponsive casualty, choking, severe bleeding, shock and seizures. Based on the core skills of workplace first aid, this update helps ensure you remain prepared to act quickly and effectively when it matters most.
What you’ll cover
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Welcome & How This Blended Course Works
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Responsibilities of a First Aider
The definition of first aid, the SARAH Act, aims of first aid (preserve life, prevent further suffering,…
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Immediate Life-Saving Actions
Assessing the scene, casualty communication, prioritising injuries, AVPU response levels, the Primary Survey…
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CPR and AED
Adult CPR actions and sequence (30:2 ratio), child and infant CPR differences, CPR flow chart, chain of…
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Recovery Position / Safe Airway Position
Using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) — the 5-step process, AED safety precautions, paediatric…
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Airway and Breathing Problems
The respiratory system, hypoxia, drowning, choking recognition (mild vs severe), choking treatment for…
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Wounds and Bleeding
Types of external bleeding (capillary, venous, arterial), bleeding treatment (5-step process),…
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Burns and Scalds
Types of burns and scalds, burn categories (superficial, partial thickness, full thickness), the S.C.A.L.D.…
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Paediatric First Aid: Infants, Children and the Primary Survey
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Paediatric CPR: Infant and Child Resuscitation
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Paediatric Choking: Infant vs Child
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Paediatric Recovery Position & Childhood Emergencies Overview
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Final Assessment — EFAW (inc. EPFA) Online Theory
Certificate on completion
Work through every module and your certificate is issued straight away.
Every module ends with a short knowledge check. Modules are worked through in order, so the course builds as you go.
Course Requirements
Assessment: End of Course Test
Learners are assessed by an end-of-course test.
Valid for 1 Year
After this period, the qualification typically needs to be requalified.
per learner
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