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First Aid training should be FUN! and not continuous chalk & talk. We achieve this by using an interactive style of training delivery with all students participating in the learning experience. We do not go for gory stories from the trainers but sensible realistic examples of what a student can expect in the workplace.

Our courses are supplemented by full colour approved First Aid manuals and we only teach accepted First Aid protocols.

Our trainers are all experienced in First Aid in the Workplace and all have or are working toward Adult education teaching qualifications. 

• Gently shake his shoulders and ask loudly, ‘Are you all right?’

• Leave him in the position in which you find him provided there is no further danger.

• Try to find out what is wrong with him and get help if needed.

• Reassess him regularly.

• Shout for help.

• Turn the victim onto his back and then open the airway using head tilt and chin lift:

o Place your hand on his forehead and gently tilt his head back. With your fingertips under the point of the victim's chin, lift the chin to open the airway.

• Look for chest movement.

• Listen at the victim's mouth for breath sounds.

• Feel for air on your cheek.

• Turn him into the recovery position (see below).

• Send or go for help, or call for an ambulance.

• Check for continued breathing.

• Ask someone to call for an ambulance or, if you are on your own, do this yourself; you may need to leave the victim. Start chest compression as follows:

o Kneel by the side of the victim.

o Place the heel of one hand in the centre of the victim’s chest.

o Place the heel of your other hand on top of the first hand.

o Interlock the fingers of your hands and ensure that pressure is not applied over the victim's ribs. Do not apply any pressure over the upper abdomen or the bottom end of the bony sternum (breastbone).

o Position yourself vertically above the victim's chest and, with your arms straight, press down on the sternum 4 - 5 cm.

o After each compression, release all the pressure on the chest without losing contact between your hands and the sternum.

o Compression and release should take an equal amount of time.

• After 30 compressions open the airway again using head tilt and chin lift.

• Pinch the soft part of the victim’s nose closed, using the index finger and thumb of your hand on his forehead.

• Allow his mouth to open, but maintain chin lift.

• Take a normal breath and place your lips around his mouth, making sure that you have a good seal.

• Blow steadily into his mouth whilst watching for his chest to rise; take about one second to make his chest rise as in normal breathing; this is an effective rescue breath.

• Maintaining head tilt and chin lift, take your mouth away from the victim and watch for his chest to fall as air comes out.

• Take another normal breath and blow into the victim’s mouth once more to give a total of two effective rescue breaths. Then return your hands without delay to the correct position on the sternum and give a further 30 chest compressions.

• Continue with chest compressions and rescue breaths in a ratio of 30:2.

• Stop to recheck the victim only if he starts breathing normally; otherwise do not interrupt resuscitation.

• Check the victim's mouth and remove any visible obstruction.

• Recheck that there is adequate head tilt and chin lift.

• Do not attempt more than two breaths each time before returning to chest compressions.

• If you are not able, or are unwilling, to give rescue breaths, give chest compressions only.

• If chest compressions only are given, these should be continuous at a rate of 100 a minute.

• Stop to recheck the victim only if he starts breathing normally; otherwise do not interrupt resuscitation.

• qualified help arrives and takes over, • the victim starts breathing normally, or • you become exhausted.