Occupational Safety
First Aid
A one-day practical programme that prepares participants to give first aid at work until the ambulance arrives: assessing the scene and the casualty, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and dealing with bleeding, fractures and common medical emergencies.
Overview
About the programme
Duration
1 day
Delivery
Training venue · At the organisation's premises
Language
Arabic or English
Objectives
Training outcomes
- Make the scene safe and carry out a primary assessment of the casualty using the AVPU scale and checks of airway and breathing.
- Place an unconscious casualty who is breathing in the recovery position, and call for an ambulance with clear information.
- Perform adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation with the correct ratio of compressions to breaths, and use an automated external defibrillator.
- Deal with choking, bleeding, shock, burns, fractures and suspected spinal injury.
- Give first aid for heat exhaustion and heat stroke, hypothermia, seizures and low blood sugar.
Content
What the programme covers
Part 1: assessment and resuscitation
- The first aider’s role and limits, the safety of the first aider and the scene, and infection prevention.
- Primary assessment: response on the AVPU scale, opening the airway, checking breathing and calling for an ambulance.
- The recovery position for an unconscious casualty who is breathing.
- Adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation: thirty compressions followed by two breaths, at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions a minute; using an automated external defibrillator; and when the first aider stops.
- Choking on a foreign body in adults.
Part 2: injuries and emergencies
- External bleeding: direct pressure and the pressure bandage; the signs of shock and how to manage it.
- Thermal and chemical burns, fractures and immobilisation, and suspected head and spinal injury: not moving the casualty unless the scene is unsafe.
- Heat-related conditions: heat exhaustion and heat stroke; hypothermia.
- Medical emergencies: seizures and epilepsy, low blood sugar and heart attack.
- Practical skill stations, followed by a short test.
Who it is for
Target audience
Staff on industrial and field sites and in offices, members of emergency teams, and supervisors who need trained first aiders in their teams. No medical background is required.
Method
Delivery method
A short explanation of each skill followed by hands-on practice by every participant on training manikins, a training defibrillator and dressing supplies, with short scenarios drawn from the workplace. The day ends with a ten-question multiple-choice test. Delivered in person, in Arabic or English.
Questions
FAQ
Is the programme suitable for people without a medical background?
Yes. It is designed for non-specialists and focuses on the actions any employee can carry out safely until the ambulance arrives.
Can it be run at our site?
Yes. It is delivered in the organisation’s training room or a suitable space on site, and can include scenarios based on the site’s own hazards, such as work in the heat or near machinery.
Does the programme award an accredited first aid card?
Every participant who attends the programme and passes the assessment receives a certificate of completion from Technology Experts Training Center, licensed by the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation. The programme does not award a card from a first aid certification body.
A programme tailored to your organisation
The duration and topics of the programme are adjusted to the organisation's needs, and it is delivered at its site, in a training hall arranged by the Center, or virtually.