1-Day or 3-Day First Aid Courses?

What You Learn in One Day

EFAW teaches core skills: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), using a defibrillator, helping someone who is choking and caring for an unresponsive person. You practise helping with injuries and sudden illness, including bleeding, burns, seizures and shock. You get hands-on practice with CPR manikins, defibrillators, choking jackets, EpiPen trainers and more.

• One day of practical workplace training.
• Accredited certification valid for three years after completion and assessment.
• A useful starting point for many offices, shops and everyday workplaces.

What the Three-Day Course Adds

FAW includes those emergency skills and more learning about serious injuries and medical conditions. The additional topics include:

• Serious injuries: fractures, head, spinal, chest and eye injuries, and more complex trauma.
• Sudden illness: recognising and responding to heart attacks, strokes, seizures, asthma and diabetes.
• Other situations: poisoning, shock and assessing a casualty.

This additional training can be useful where your workplace has more serious injury risks, such as machinery in a workshop or work on a construction site. Choose based on the risks and First Aid cover you need.

How Much Time Will I Spend in the Classroom?

For EFAW, plan for one full training day. That is the usual format for both public courses and private workplace training.

Full FAW has three days of learning. With our blended option, two days are online and one day is practical training with your trainer. Allow time for the online learning as well as the day you attend.