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First Aid eLearning
Online first aid awareness training: what to do in the first minutes, how to call for help properly, and why this is awareness rather than a certificated first aider qualification.
Who it is for
Who this first aid awareness course is for
This is awareness training for everybody, not the qualification your appointed first aiders need. It exists because the person nearest an incident is usually not the first aider, and what they do in the first two minutes matters.
- All staff, as part of induction or refresher training
- Lone workers and remote staff
- Office, retail and hospitality teams
- Anyone who might be first on scene
- Employers deciding on first aid provision
- People waiting for a place on a certificated course
Course content
What the first aid awareness course covers
Five short lessons covering your role and its limits, assessing the scene and getting help, the unresponsive casualty, bleeding, burns and shock, and recording, then a 12-question assessment.
Your role and its limits
What you can do in an emergency without being a first aider, your employer's first aid duties, and the limits of awareness.
Assessing the scene and getting help
Checking for danger, checking for a response, calling 999 straight away for anyone unresponsive, and giving the right information.
The unresponsive casualty
Checking breathing, starting CPR, using a defibrillator, and the recovery position for someone breathing normally.
Bleeding, burns and shock
Immediate action for severe bleeding, burns and scalds, and recognising and managing shock.
Recording and afterwards
Recording what happened, reporting under RIDDOR where needed, restocking, and looking after yourself after an incident.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Explain your role in an emergency and the limits of first aid awareness
- Assess a scene for danger and call for help clearly
- Recognise when someone is unresponsive and needs CPR, and use a defibrillator
- Take immediate action on severe bleeding, burns and shock
- Record an incident correctly and look after yourself afterwards
Your legal duty
The law behind first aid awareness training
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel so that employees receive immediate attention if they are injured or taken ill at work. What is adequate depends on a first aid needs assessment.
Those Regulations are met by appointed persons or certificated first aiders, depending on the assessment, not by awareness training for everybody. This course supports that provision; it does not replace it.
- Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
- Provision must follow a first aid needs assessment
- Awareness training does not make anyone a certificated first aider
- RIDDOR applies to reporting certain injuries
Practicalities
How the course works
Would you rather have a tutor?
FAW, EFAW and requalification are practical, assessed courses that must be delivered in person.
For employers
First Aid Awareness training for a team
Awareness for everyone plus certificated first aiders in the right numbers is the combination most workplaces need.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
First Aid eLearning: common questions
No, and this matters. Certificated first aid qualifications such as FAW and EFAW are practical, assessed courses delivered in person. This is awareness training for everyone else.
Not on its own. The Regulations are met by appointed persons or certificated first aiders in numbers set by your first aid needs assessment. This course supports that, it does not replace it.
Yes. The person nearest an incident is rarely the first aider, and calling for help properly and making the scene safe are what the first two minutes are actually spent on.
It covers recognising when CPR is needed and the principle of it. Competent CPR requires hands-on practice on a manikin, which has to be done in person.
About 30 to 45 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued as soon as you pass the end assessment.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.
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