ITC Level 3 Award in + Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF)

 

Next course:

Monday 27th January 2025 9am to 6pm

Venue: Langham Community Centre, Langham, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5PA

Cost: £80 per person (inc VAT)

Thursday 20th February 2025 9am to 6pm

Venue: Wetherden Village Hall, Park Road, Wetherden, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3JS

Cost: £80 per person (inc VAT)

Monday 3rd March 2025 9am to 6pm

Venue: Langham Community Centre, Langham, Colchester, Essex, CO4 5PA

Cost: £80 per person (inc VAT)

“Employers must make sure employees get immediate help if taken ill or injured at work.

The law applies to every workplace and to the self-employed.

You must have:

  • a suitably stocked first aid kit

  • an appointed person or people to take charge of first aid arrangements

  • information for all employees telling them about first aid arrangements”

hse.gov.uk

Employers have to risk assess their workplace first aid requirements, further advice on this can be found by clicking the link here.

The 1-day +F  Emergency First Aid at Work (+F EFAW) qualification is one of the statutory qualifications for this purpose, with a particular emphasis on +F requirements set out in the Forestry Commission First Aid guidance PPG 59.

There are other "+F" type settings where the risk assessment indicates that employees may be faced with life-threatening incidents where there are additional hazards that need "+F" skills, then the +F EFAW is the qualification that meets this need.  In addition to Forestry, other "+F" type settings include Farming, Fishing and Field Sports.

Topics include the usual EFAW content; roles & responsibilities, assessing incidents, dealing with collapse (with and without breathing), choking, bleeding, shock, seizures, minor workplace incidents, using first aid kit

The "+F" content includes the Forestry Commission guidance from First Aid - PPG 59: life threatening bleeding, crush injuries, hypothermia and Lyme disease.

This qualification is designed to provide essential life saving skills.  Typical delivery methods are predominantly practical and the course is assessed by continual observation of learner performance.