Occupational First Aid and CPR Training

• To prepare the participants to be confident and competent First Responder.
• To comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
• To create the awareness that knowledge in First Aid and CPR can make the difference between life and death

CONTENT

Adult One Rescuer CPR

• Heart and lung function
• Risk factors
• Prudent heart living
• Signals of heart attack
• Actions for survival
• One Rescuer CPR
• CHAIN OF SURVIVAL
• Automated External Defibrillator
• Features of an AED
• Use of an AED
• Accessories required for an AED

Adult FBAO Management

• (FBAO - Foreign Body Airway Obstruction)
• Conscious
• Conscious becomes unconscious
• Found conscious

Patient Assessment

• Scene Survey and Danger assessment.
• Primary patient assessment for life threatening priorities.
• Secondary assessment of patient for other visible and suspected internal injuries.
• Prioritizing treatment of injuries in a multiple injured victim.
• On the spot diagnosis using the senses of sight, touch and smell

Wound Management

• Types of wound and bleeding
• Control of external bleeding
• Bandaging techniques for: -
• Head injury
• Eye injury
• Traumatic amputation
• Impaled foreign object

Shock

• Causative agents
• Signs and Symptoms
• Prevention, Recognition and treatment

FOR WHOM:

Operation/Production Managers, Technicians, Machine Operators, Supervisors, Directors, and others who are involved in the day to day activities in the manufacturing sector.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.