First Aid
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require employers to provide adequate and appropriate equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid to be given to employees if they are injured or become ill at work. These Regulations apply to all workplaces including those with five or fewer employees and to the self-employed.
Our First Aid courses, developed and taught in accordance with both the UK and European Resuscitation guidelines, are designed to help employers meet their obligations as required by those regulations.
If you require some assistance in determining whether your current provision meets the requirement of the regulations please give us a call to arrange a Training Needs Analysis.
How many first aiders do you need?
Category of Risk |
Numbers employed at any location |
Suggested number of first aid personnel |
Lower riskeg. "shops, offices, libraries" |
Fewer than 50 50 - 100 More than 100 |
At least one appointed person At least one first aider One additional first aider for every 100 employed |
Medium riskeg. "light engineering and assembly work, food processing" |
Fewer than 20 20 - 100 More than 100
|
At least one appointed person At least one first aider for every 50 employed (or part thereof) One additional first aider for every 100 employed |
Higher riskeg. "construction, slaughterhouses, chemical manufacture" |
Fewer than 5 5 - 50 More than 50 |
At least one appointed person
At least one first aider One additional first aider for |
Information from HSE website
Company News
INSTRUCTOR'S PLEASE NOTE
Posted March 8th, 2010 by EditorA 16 year old girl swimmer died after a lifeguard stopped CPR when she started breathing again, she thought that she had saved her life a Coroner heard...
Abstracts:
Heart specialist Dr Christopher Duke said Sophie 'would have survived' if she had received continuous CPR. He said 'You don't stop resuscitation just because a patient appears to be breathing. You only stop if there's breathing and a pulse.'
Testimonials
Ian Hilton-Tapp: Salusburys Harding and Barnett Solicitors
Posted February 3rd, 2009 by Editor"thank you for your warm welcome, hospitality and excellent training course on Friday. We all learnt a lot from the course, aided by the fact that it was also enjoyable and presented by a very good teacher!"