Basic First Aid

What is Basic First Aid Training? Basic First Aid is a technical programme designed to equip responders with the skills to manage non-emergency injuries and provide critical intervention during life-threatening medical crises. The course focuses on stabilising casualties of cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, and severe haemorrhage until professional medical services arrive. It provides the essential competence to manage minor workplace injuries that do not require clinical hospital admission.

Clinical Framework & Statutory Alignment

While focused on basic intervention, the programme adheres to international life-support standards and local workplace safety requirements:

• Clinical Standard: Aligned with the latest PHECC (Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council) and European Resuscitation Council guidelines.
• Safety Context: Supports the General Application Regulations 2007 regarding the provision of adequate first-aid facilities and trained personnel.
• Primary Objective: To preserve life, prevent the condition from worsening, and promote recovery.

This programme is designed for individuals who need foundational knowledge and practical skills in emergency response for the workplace, home, or community. It is suitable for employees in low risk working environments, secondary support responders, and community leaders seeking certified lifesaving competence.

Primary Candidate Profiles

• Low Risk Commercial and Corporate Staff: Office workers, administrative assistants, receptionists, and retail associates seeking practical first aid knowledge for commercial settings.
• Secondary and Support Responders: Workplace personnel appointed to assist primary First Aid Response personnel during multi casualty incidents or building evacuations.
• Facilities, Maintenance, and Security Personnel: Janitorial crews, building caretakers, and security guards who are often first on the scene of an injury or medical episode.
• Hospitality and Service Sector Workers: Hotel staff, restaurant workers, kitchen porters, and front of house teams dealing with cuts, burns, scalds, and slips.
• Sports Coaches and Fitness Instructors: Gym staff, youth sports coaches, and leisure club supervisors managing athletic injuries, sprains, and sudden collapses.
• Community Members and Volunteers: Caregivers, residential volunteers, and parents who wish to handle sudden cardiac, respiratory, or trauma emergencies safely.

Candidate Suitability and Practical Requirements Candidates should note that this course involves a high level of practical training. Participants must be capable of undertaking physical skills practice, including kneeling beside manikins to perform continuous chest compressions and placing casualties into the recovery position

• Responsibilities of First Aider
• Patient Assessment
• Respiratory emergencies
• Cardiac Emergencies (Automatic External Defibrillator training)
• Wounds and bleeding
• Altered levels of consciousness
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Burns and scalds, chemicals, electric shock.

• Understand the role of Basic First Aid
• Carry out a Patient Assessment
• Deal with Respiratory Emergencies
• Attend to Wounds and Bleeding
• Care for musculoskeletal injuries, and treat burns, scalds, chemicals and electric shock.

Delegates who successfully complete the course will receive a Holland Occupational Basic First Aid Certificate. Valid for two years.

To be successful delegates must pass

• Written Assessment (30%)
• Skills Demonstrations (70%)

Candidates are advised that this course involves a high level of practical training.