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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
Six short modules on the immediate actions that make a difference before qualified help arrives.
Your role and its limits
What awareness-level first aid is for, and where a qualified first aider takes over.
Assessing the scene
Danger, response, and making the situation safe before approaching.
Getting help
Calling emergency services clearly, and what information they need.
The unresponsive casualty
Airway, breathing, the recovery position and when to start CPR.
Bleeding, burns and shock
Immediate actions for common workplace injuries.
Recording and afterwards
The accident book, reporting, and supporting people after an incident.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Assess a scene for danger before approaching
- Call the emergency services clearly and give useful information
- Place an unresponsive breathing casualty in the recovery position
- Take immediate action on severe bleeding, burns and shock
- Recognise when to start CPR and when to hand over
- Record an incident correctly 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
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
FAW, EFAW and requalification are practical, assessed courses that must be delivered in person. See certificated first aid courses →
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 minutes, with no time limit: start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
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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