This interactive one-day course ensures that your company has trained first aiders who are confident to act in a medical emergency both inside and outside the workplace.
Course contents include
- Emergency protocols: evaluation of the situation and calling for emergency assistance, personal safety and security, legal obligations in Switzerland
- Basic Life Support: giving CPR to adults with practise on manikins and using an Automated External Defibrillator
- Other life-threatening situations: the unconscious casualty and when to use the ‘Recovery Position’, seizures, heart attack, stroke, choking
- Essential First Aid skills: head and spinal injuries, major blood loss and shock, burns, broken bones
Small group work and realistic first aid scenarios are used to practise newly acquired skills.
Course certification
HealthFirst Certificate of Attendance: Basic Life Support and Essential First Aid Skills (7-hours training), valid for 2 years.
