The 2 day (16 hour) Outdoor First Aid course is a standard course for outdoor instructors. This series of blogs will help those who work in the outdoors to learn more about adapting first aid skills to their environment.
Whether taking groups hill walking, mountain biking, canoeing, kayaking or ski-ing this is the course for outdoor instructors. The course is also appropriate for Forest Schools and Outdoor Woodland Learning groups, countryside rangers, ecologists and estate workers.
Now that the First Aid Conference 2019 is done and dusted, and we’ve had a few days to unwind. It’s a good time to reflect and review the day in our minds. How was it for you? Planning For us in the First Aid Training Co-operative, the conference day is the culmination of many months…
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Once again, our Director Cory Jones has return to East Africa to help develop Wilderness First Aid courses in Kenya. For the past nine years Cory has been heading to Kenya annually to run courses. These have been for safari guides and drivers, the Kenya Wildlife Service, mountain guides and rangers on Mount Kenya.
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Set Up Emergency Contact Information On iPhone It used to be the case that we were encouraged to add Emergency Contact Information via an “In Case of Emergency”, or ICE number to our contact list. This would be the person we would want to be called if we were found unconscious or otherwise incapacitated. However,
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First Aid Acronyms Explained – SAP S – Safe A – Airway P – Position An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation, created from the initial letters of a phrase or a word. The first aid world uses many acronyms to help us remember different treatments. In this series we have explained the meanings of
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First Aid Acronyms Explained – DRABC D – Danger R – Response A – Airway B – Breathing C – Circulation An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation, created from the initial letters of a phrase or a word. The first aid world uses many acronyms to help us remember different treatments. In this series
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First Aid Acronyms Explained – CLAP C – Control the situation L – Look for hazards A – Assess the situation P – Protect and Prioritise An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation, created from the initial letters of a phrase or a word. The first aid world uses many acronyms to
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First Aid Acronyms Explained – PPP The 3 Priorities of First Aid: P – Preserve life P – Prevent worsening P – Promote recovery An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation, created from the initial letters of a phrase or a word. The first aid world uses many acronyms to help us remember different
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Outdoor First Aid courses – Edinburgh International Climbing Arena First Aid Training Co-operative runs specific Outdoor First Aid courses, which cover the requirements of outdoor National Governing Bodies (NGBs). These 16 hour Outdoor First Aid course are held at Edinburgh International Climbing Arena (EICA) several times each year, Dates of each can be seen on our
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Outdoor First Aid courses Lochore Meadows, Fife First Aid Training Co-operative runs specific Outdoor First Aid courses, which cover the requirements of outdoor National Governing Bodies (NGBs). These 16 hour Outdoor First Aid course are held at Lochore Meadows Country Park in Fife several times each year. Dates can be seen on our website. These courses
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Inverness is at the heart of the Highlands and we run several Outdoor First Aid courses each year there. These specific Outdoor First Aid courses, cover the requirements of outdoor National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and can teach you how to deal with a range of incidents that outdoor instructors, ecologists, gillies and stalkers may come
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