Activity First Aid – 2 days (12 Hours) – Level 2 (RQF)
Course Overview:
This 2-day course focuses on both adults and children and is designed to meet the needs of those working in the sports or leisure environment requiring sports specific first aid training.
By constantly reinforcing basic principles and procedures and building on these throughout the day candidates will learn a systematic approach to first aid that can be applied to any given situation. Assessment is continuous throughout the course by way of practical demonstrations.
Our courses are delivered in a fun and relaxed manner using incident based scenarios appropriate to the context of the course and the groups working environment. The training methods and techniques used on our courses are specifically designed to make first aiders more confident when dealing with real life incidents.
This course meets the need for many sporting and activity National Governing Bodies.
Due to the rise in awareness of defibrillators (AED’s) this course includes full defibrillator training in accordance with the current UK Resuscitation Council guidelines.
Course content includes:
- Roles & responsibilities of the First Aider
- Outdoor specific incident management techniques
- Unconscious casualty management
- CPR & AED use (Automated External Defibrillator)
- Choking
- Serious bleeding & shock
- Managing illnesses
- Environmental effects
- Heat & cold injuries
