Basic First Aid (Previously Level 1) e-Learning Training Course

• Workers
• Supervisors
• Line Managers
• Health, Safety and Environmental Practitioners, and
• Any other individual who wishes to become acquainted with the processes and procedures to follow when performing First Aid.

This course will teach the candidate how to handle the most common emergency situations, administer basic life support, and perform prescribed first aid procedures as well as treatment for common injuries and sudden illness until Emergency Medical Services arrive and can take over.

Upon completion of this course, the attending candidate will be able to:

1. Define their role as an emergency First Aider
2. Describe how to minimize risks to themselves and others
3. Identify the need for establishing consent to provide first aid to the casualty in addition to completing an accident report form
4. Identify prescribed first aid equipment which should be available in the workplace
5. Describe the safe use of first aid equipment when treating a casualty
6. Conduct and perform a survey of the emergency scene, a primary assessment of the casualty, and call for help
7. Assess the casualty’s level of consciousness using the AVPU scale, open the airway of the casualty, check breathing and explain the importance of the recovery position
8. Demonstrate how to place an unresponsive casualty in the recovery position
9. Identify the most common medical conditions
10. Manage a casualty who has a seizure, asthma attack, or an allergic reaction
11. Recognise the need to commence CPR and demonstrate the administration thereof using a manikin
12. Describe the identification and treatment of choking with both a partially and completely blocked airway
13. Identify the types of external bleeding and how to control it
14. Recognise shock and manage a casualty who is in shock, and
15. Administer first aid to casualties who have sustained cuts, grazes, bruises, minor burns, scalds, or small splinters.

The content of this course is formulated around the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 85 of 1993, General Safety Regulations. The content of the course includes, but is not limited to:

1. The introduction to and overview of Basic First Aid, Emergency Scene Management, and Patient Management
2. Managing Emergency Situations, Basic First Aid Principles, and Basic Human Anatomy and Physiology, and
3. First Aid Principles and Emergency Procedures including Patient Recovery and the Treatment of Common Injuries and Illness.