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QNUK Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) in Manchester
One day at our Manchester centre in Bury. The standard one day workplace first aid qualification, valid for three years.
About this course
Emergency First Aid at Work is the one day workplace qualification. It concentrates on the incidents that have to be dealt with in the first few minutes: an unresponsive casualty, CPR, the recovery position, choking, serious bleeding, shock and seizures.
It is the answer most lower hazard workplaces arrive at through a first aid needs assessment, and it is mostly practical. Everybody leaves able to start CPR and control a bleed rather than able to describe them.
Around Greater Manchester we run it for offices, retail and hospitality, warehousing and distribution, schools and care settings, and for a whole team we will come to your premises instead.
The centre is Europa House, Barcroft Street, Bury BL9 5BT. Bury is a few minutes from junction 2 of the M66, with the M60 and M62 close by, and Bury Interchange connects to the Metrolink into central Manchester.
We draw candidates from Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham, Salford, Wigan, Stockport and the wider Greater Manchester and east Lancashire area. If a date at Manchester does not suit, the same course runs at our other centres and we can deliver it at your own premises anywhere in the UK.
- The role and responsibilities of an emergency first aider, consent and infection control
- Assessing an incident: the scene survey, the primary survey, and summoning assistance
- When to administer CPR, and demonstrating adult CPR on a manikin
- When and how to place a casualty in the recovery position, and monitoring them there
- First aid for a casualty experiencing a seizure
- Choking, mild and severe
- Identifying the severity of external bleeding and controlling it
- Recognising and treating shock
- Minor injuries, and minor burns and scalds
How completing this course helps you
- QNUK Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work, valid for three years
- The qualification most lower hazard first aid needs assessments call for
- Staff who can act in the first few minutes rather than wait for the ambulance
- Support for your duties under the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
Who should attend?
Employees nominated as emergency first aiders across Greater Manchester and east Lancashire, particularly in offices, retail, hospitality, education and service environments.
Entry requirements. None. You need to be physically able to carry out practical first aid on the floor, including CPR on a manikin, and to have enough English to follow the training and the written assessment.
Ready to take the next step?
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At Manchester
What to expect on the day
The course is the same wherever you sit it. What changes is the room, the journey and the people in it, and those matter more than providers usually admit.
Our Manchester centre is Europa House, Barcroft Street, Bury BL9 5BT. Bury is a few minutes from junction 2 of the M66, with the M60 and M62 close by, and Bury Interchange connects to the Metrolink into central Manchester. Joining instructions go out ahead of the course with timings, what to bring and where to go when you arrive.
If you are booking for a group and travel is the problem, we deliver this course at employers’ own premises anywhere in the country. For six or more people that is usually cheaper per head and nobody loses a day on the road.
Before the day
Joining instructions with timings, the address and what to bring. Tell us at booking if anybody needs support with reading, writing or access and we will sort it quietly.
On the day
Arrive a few minutes early. Bring photographic identification, which most awarding bodies require before they will certificate you.
Afterwards
We tell you the outcome and handle the registration and certification with the awarding body. If anything needs resitting we will get it booked.
Course content
What you will cover
The qualification is structured around the management of health and safety and the practical application of risk assessment.
The emergency first aider
- The role and responsibilities of a first aider
- How to minimise the risk of infection to self and others
- The need for consent to provide first aid
- Conducting a scene survey
- Conducting a primary survey of a casualty
- Summoning appropriate assistance when necessary
Emergency first aid
- When to administer CPR, and demonstrating adult CPR on a manikin
- When to place a casualty into the recovery position, and demonstrating it
- Monitoring breathing while a casualty is in the recovery position
- First aid for a casualty experiencing a seizure
- Choking, mild and severe
- Identifying the severity of external bleeding and controlling it
- Recognising and treating shock
- Minor injuries: small cuts, grazes, bruises and small splinters
- Minor burns and scalds in line with accepted current practice
Method of assessment
How Emergency First Aid at Work is assessed
Two steps. Practical observation through the day, then a short written paper.
Practical observation
You are observed carrying out the scene and primary survey, summoning assistance, adult CPR on a manikin, the recovery position and monitoring, choking, and identifying and controlling life threatening external bleeding.
Multiple choice examination
A fifteen question multiple choice paper. The pass mark is eleven correct answers and the maximum time limit is thirty minutes.
Certification
Issued by QNUK and valid for three years. Renewal is by retaking the course, and HSE guidance also recommends an annual refresher in between.
Ways to learn
How you can take this course
Every route covers the same accredited syllabus and the same support. Pick the one that fits how your people work.
Dates and locations
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Also available
In-company training
We run this one to order, at your place or ours.
Onsite / in-company
Run Emergency First Aid at Work at your site
We deliver anywhere in the UK, on your dates and around your shift patterns. For six or more people it is usually cheaper per head than sending everyone to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling.
Tell us roughly how many people and when, and we will come back with options and a price, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
What onsite includes
- The same tutor, materials and certification as our centres
- Your venue or one we arrange near you
- Dates and start times built around your operation
- One invoice and one point of contact for the whole group
- Content examples drawn from your own workplace
Emergency First Aid at Work FAQs
Three years. HSE guidance also recommends an annual refresher in between, which is a separate half day and a regulated qualification in its own right.
There is no legal number. It falls out of your own first aid needs assessment: hazards, headcount, shift patterns, lone workers, site layout and distance from help. Most employers train above the minimum so that holidays do not leave them uncovered.
Europa House, Barcroft Street, Bury BL9 5BT. Bury is a few minutes from junction 2 of the M66, with the M60 and M62 close by, and Bury Interchange connects to the Metrolink into central Manchester. Full joining instructions with timings go out before the course.
The same course runs at our other centres in Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Manchester and Liverpool, and we deliver it at employers’ own premises anywhere in the UK. Tell us roughly when you need it and we will find something or put a date on.
Yes, anywhere in the country. For six or more people it normally works out cheaper per head than sending everybody to a centre, and we can build the day around your shift patterns.
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