Course Overview

Price: R3 399

Section 8 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act,85 of 1993 requires employers to provide and maintain, as far as reasonably practicable, a working environment that is safe and without risk to the health of their employees.

This skills programme is therefore critical, and it will enable workplaces across all sectors to meet their legal obligations relating to the provisioning of first aid care in the workplace.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this skills programme, a learner will be able to:

• Conduct incident scene safety and patient assessment and management within scope.
• Provide basic emergency first aid care and secondary assessments of the affected persons for life-threatening conditions.
• Apply continuous basic emergency first aid care to mitigate pain and facilitate healing.
• Hand the treated person over to the next level of medical care with associated documentation.
• Communicate with affected and all stakeholders.
• Conduct post-incident clean-up.

Programme Content

From this course, learners will be exposed to the overall broad areas so as to master the following tasks:

1. Conduct basic primary and secondary assessments of the affected persons
2. Identify and treat life threatening conditions requiring immediate first aid care.
3. Recognise additional injuries or illnesses and apply appropriate basic first aid care to mitigate pain and facilitate healing.

Costs

This programme will cost each learner R3 400.00 per learner. The cost includes:

• Learner Manuals
• Assessment Guides
• Stationery (optional)
• Access to Harmony and Help Academy Library, websites and additional material
• Online Support
• Work Placement for exposure