Description
This course equips the outdoor practitioner, worker, or National Governing Body outdoor sports instructor, with the skills and techniques required to deal with a first aid incident. Both in potentially remote and challenging environments, as well as more urban, close to home situations.
A flexible, environment specific course, the content can be related to any outdoor situation and adapted to the needs of the client.
Our Outdoor First Aid course covers the requirements for -
- Forest School or Outdoor Woodland Learning Practitioners - covers child CPR, illness, choking
- Mountain Bikers Leaders and Coaches (BC, CTC, MBLA, etc)
- Mountain Leaders / Climbers and Instructors (IML, MLA, SPA, etc)
- Ski Instructors (BASI etc)
- Paddlesports coaches and instructors (BCU/SCA etc)
- Sailors (RYA)
- Forestry (+F requirements) and Ecologists
- Remote First Aid
- Wilderness First Aid
- Aquatic First Aid (BCU/SCA)
- Duke of Edinburgh Assessors and Supervisors
- Field Studies Tutors
- Expedition Leaders
- Ecologists and Environmental consultants
- Peatland restoration and upland path construction workers
Theoretical training and practical scenarios are used together, and are progressed to being based in remote locations, potentially several hours from help. You will be very active on this course, both inside and outdoors. Come prepared to get involved. Check the weather forecast and bring appropriate outdoor clothing with you for going outdoors on the second day!
How Does This Course Compare To Others?
The First Aid industry can be confusing! There are a variety of systems that give an academic ‘level ‘ to first aid courses. Our Outdoor First Aid 2 Days course is equivalent to:
- RQF (Regulated Qualification Framework) Level 3
- SCQF (Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework) Level 6
- IoL (Institute of Outdoor Learning) Band 3 Course - Outdoor First Aid 2 Day
- REC (Remote Emergency Care) Level 3
Certificate Validity
3 Years
Accreditations
First Aid Training Co-operative exceed the HSE Employers' Due Diligence requirements for first aid training providers.
We have ISO9001, ISO14001, & ISO45001 Certification and are also members of the Federation of First Aid Training Organisations and Co-operatives UK.
You can rely on our quality assured systems for the correct accreditation of your course.
We are a Living Wage Accredited employer, and a carbon neutral company. We are in business for good.
Course Content List
- Contents of a first aid kit
- Accident reporting
- Vital signs
- A systematic approach to managing first aid incidents - ABCDE
- Casualty Monitoring and casualty protection
- Airway Management
- Recovery Positions
- Breathing Problems - cardiac arrest CPR inc AED use, drowning/child CPR,
- Heart attack, Angina, and other medical emergencies
- Choking (adult and child)
- Circulation Problems and treatment for shock
- Crush Injury and catastrophic blood loss if appropriate to the group
- Damage – treatment of injuries to the: chest, abdomen, pelvis, leg & arm, including remote improvised techniques
- Soft tissue injuries
- Head and spinal injuries, and helmet removal techniques and spinal management
- Environmental Considerations – hypothermia, hyperthermia and cold injuries
- Environmental Illness : Weils disease, Lyme disease, Tick-borne Encephalitis, Animal bites and stings
- Awareness of current regulations
- Making emergency calls in different outdoor situations
- Triage
- Outdoor Incident Scenarios
Reviews
An excellent First Aid At Work/Equestrian course today. A really good mix of practical role plays and discussion/slide based content. Our trainers, Rachel and Molly, were brilliant. They were both professional, friendly, supportive and approachable. The course was very enjoyable without detracting from the seriousness of the topics being covered.
Excellent, entertaining and very practical.
Fantastic 3 days training with Suzie. Amazingly interactive course with opportunities to work in realistic environments and scenarios tailored to your workplace. Suzie is an extremely knowledgeable trainer and puts you at ease immediately. We've left with an abundance of new knowledge and confidence!
Wonderful trainer. Kept it exciting and vibrant!
Great training and enjoyable experience
Engaging teacher, great course content and suitable for our specific needs. 5 stars!
Absolutely brilliant course! So informative and has really built my confidence
The course was really good! Engaging and informative, at no point did I think "when is this over" like with other courses of similar nature I've done in the past. Susie was funny and so knowledgeable, and tailored the content to the needs of our work. Five stars!
Absolutely amazing. Very interactive and practical.
Excellent course, great instructors and fantastic lay out also covered alot of aubjects.
Had a wonderful one day course taught by Cameron. Full of hands on experience and richly informative. Really helps to build your confidence in responding to a first aid incident through learning by doing. I'd highly recommend them!
Fantastic course, very engaging presenters with lots of practical scenarios both demonstrated and carried out be the attendees. Very worth while for multiple workplaces.
Great course, Suzie was very engaging and the 6 hours flew by. Thank you very much, feel a lot more confident to carry out first aid now!
Brilliant course, beautifully delivered. Thank you Sam!
Thank you! It was very practical and useful!
thank you so so much!!! the session was so practical and i learnt so much crucial life skills. i think the amount of “hands on” stuff was just great and i loved the way course was presented!!!!
Great day. Very interesting and interactive
Very useful. Very informative and interesting. Well presented
Sam was fantastic and engaging.
Fantastic
Excellent class, lots of information, very engaging teachers. Feel prepared and confident to help
Very interesting and detailed 2 day outdoor first aid training. The two first aiders Steve and Isa were brilliant and I would highly recommend picking this course with them
Great course, really useful and very well taught
Excellent course - very informative with lots of hands-on practice. Brilliant instructor (Molly). Thank you!
Brilliant, hands-on course! Molly was excellent & we covered a lot of general & equestrian first aid. Thank you!
Excellent trainer, detailed, learned so much!
Dave was a superb tutor, knowledgable and engaging. Great course excellent content - thanks
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