First Aid with Emergency Trauma

Working AT Height – Academy ™  are proud to introduce our First Aid With Emergency Trauma at Height Course for your convenience.

Course Aim:  This course designed to provide personnel with the basic skills that will enable them to work in a safe manner in any setting and to meet emergency response training requirements. This three-day training course (one of four modules) focuses on the conditions of a industrail workplcae environment. Following this lesson plan for First Aid With Emergency Trauma at Height, participants receive the necessary knowledge and skills through theory and practical training to use basic First Aid and perform safe Emergency Trauma at Height in any environment.

Typical Enviroments

• Wind Turbine Generators
• Industrial Refinery
• Power Plants
• Factorys
• Stadium’s
• Hangers
• Entertainment Staging and More!

Learning Outcome

• Roles and responsibilities of the first aider.
• You will also have the confidence to provide treatment for the purpose of saving a persons life or treating any further life threatening injuries.
• At the end of the course you will be capable of coordinating first aid arrangements in the workplace or at home.
• You will learn about the employee and employers responsibilities with regards the health and safety legislation on first aid provision in the workplace
• Proficient High Performance First Aid.
• Site self-sufficiency when responding to trauma at height.
• Increased ability for fast effective response
• Rendering aid in an emergency situation at height.
• Implementing a rescue procedure effectively within Incident Command (IC) protocol
• Emergency Preparedness and response onsite
• Hand over to Emergency Professionals

Course Outline

• Relevant Legislation
• Regulations: Fall Arrest Systems, Work Restraint Systems & Ladders
• Introduction to SETUP
• Risk Assessments
• First Aid Provider
• Legal Considerations
• Calling For Help
• Protecting yourself.
• Rescue Breaths
• Chest Compressions
• Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)
• Cardiac Arrest
• Caring for Cardiac Arrest
• Primary Assessment
• Primary Assessment Responsive
• Secondary Assessment
• Sudden Injury – Breathing Difficulty or Shortness of breath
• Sudden Injury – Shock
• Sudden Injury – Swollen, Painful & Deformed Limbs.
• Sudden Injury – Head, Neck & Back
• Sudden Injury – Minor Injury’s
• Sudden Injury – Control of Bleeding
• Sudden Injury – Open Chest
• Sudden Injury – Abdominal Injury
• Sudden Injury – Impaled Objects
• Sudden Injury – Amputation
• Sudden Injury – Altered Mental Status
• Sudden Injury – Burns
• Environmental Emergencies – Heat
• Environmental Emergencies – Cold
• Equipment: Instruction of a spinal immobilasion kit and a cervical coller for desined for use in wind turbines.
• Handover to emergency personnel
• Emotional Considerations

Course duration: This is a three-day course for experienced trainers with an existing training qualification.

Additional Information

Certified PPE is required for this course.

Course Participation Method

In-Person only

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for any person industrail setting who might need to render First Aid or give EmergencyTrauma at Height as part of there day to day work. This course has the minimum basic skills that will enable them to work in a safe manner in any enviroment and to meet emergency response training requirements.

Certification & Assessment

Delegates who successfully complete the course will receive a Working at Height Limited Certificate in First Aid With Emergency Trauma at Height.

Assessment Method

1. 20 Multiple Choice Questions.
2. Practical Skills Assessment

Course Delivery

This course is delivered by a QQI Certified instructor, Ofqual Certified Instructor, in Train the Trainer & in Ireland a Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council First Aid Responder Certified Instructor, HSI Certified Instructor in Basic Life Support, Adult & Pediatric Instructor.

Compliance A Regulation

All Working at Height Limited Programs for first aid and Emergency Trauma are fully compliant to;

• ILCOR – International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
• ERC – European Recusation Council
• AHA – American Heart Association
  • PHECC – Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council
  • Health and Safety Instatute
  • ISO 11.160

IMS Ref: 5.9.TC.7.7.2