• The training course standards are paralleled against a variety of standards across the UK, including CFRA Operational guidance on the use of Breathing Apparatus, Technical Bulletin 1/97, City and Guilds unit 6150-03, Control of Substances Harmful to Health Regs 2002, and SCBA manufacturer’s instructions and guidelines.
• It will provide them with the skills to ensure their own safety and the safety of others in an emergency situation and in the event of an accident or injury.

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COURSE AIM

COURSE OBJECTIVE 

Upon completion of training, the students will show understanding of and be able to demonstrate the following tasks.

• Basic first aid includes ensuring their own safety, checking the level of response of a casualty, control of bleeding, basic resuscitation, basic CPR, control of the cervical spine, and packaging, and transporting a casualty.
• Confined space hazards, effects of gasses, gas and gas testing, ventilation, and testing procedure. Work at height, collective and personal protection, work positioning, work restraint, fall arrest, and practical use of WAH equipment.
• Understanding the mechanisms of fire, determining the type of material on fire, select and using a suitable portable fire extinguisher. Treatment of burns from fire, steam, and chemicals, use of fire blankets.
• Recognizing hazards in the workplace, dust, fumes, water, gasses, noise, vibration, and chemicals in use in industry. First aid and emergency actions classroom assessment.
• Practical firefighting and simulated casualty treatment and evacuation simulation.
• Understand the construction, set up, testing, wearing, safety, maintenance, and operational use of SCBA sets provided for emergency use.

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