Must every organisation have a first aider?

According to guidance from HSE, every workplace should have at least one first aid kit and someone in the team appointed to be in charge of delivering first aid or calling the emergency services if required. You can learn more about First Aid Policy in the Workplace in this article.

What are the three primary duties of a first aider?

The first aim of first aid is to preserve life, which involves the key emergency practices to ensure that the casualty isn’t in any mortal danger. Once you’ve followed all the steps associated with the first principle, your next priority is to prevent deterioration of the injured person’s condition. Finally, there are steps you should follow which will help lessen the amount of time taken for a casualty to recover from an accident and aid in minimising lasting damage and scarring. We call this promoting recovery. To learn more about the principles of First Aid, click here.

What level of first aid training do I need?

There are two types of first aid qualification that certify someone as a first aider: First Aid at Work (FAW) and Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW). First Aid at Work is a Level 3 qualification, while Emergency First Aid at Work is classed as a Level 2 qualification. You can learn more about First Aid here, and see our full list of First Aid courses, including packages here.

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Manual Handling and First Aid Training Package

This CPD approved training package contains two popular health and safety courses, Manual Handling and First Aid: Primary Survey. Learn how to stay safe when manual handling and how to act effectively should an accident occur and first aid is required. Earn two digital certificates on completion and improve your health and safety knowledge.

Package Overview

Format

Intermediate
2-4 Study Hours
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

2-4 CPD Hours
CPD Certified

Package description

Employers have a legal requirement to take reasonable steps to safeguard the health and safety of all employees, including increasing awareness about potential hazards, and outlining what can be done to minimise risk.

The Manual Handling course will help learners understand the correct manual handling procedures to apply to be able to reduce their chance of incurring an injury while handling loads.

The First Aid Primary Survey course will help learners to react appropriately when they are first on the scene of an incident involving a casualty and know what necessary steps to take.

The Manual Handling and First Aid training pack is made up of our popular online courses, Manual Handling in the Workplace and First Aid Primary Survey (developed in partnership with leading national training provider, First Response Training). Both of these courses are CPD certified.

This training is aimed primarily at businesses who want to train their staff in manual handling and provide them a basic understanding of first aid principles. The course provides a general overview of how to stay safe when manual handling, as well as how to act effectively in the event of an incident requiring first aid assistance.

Please note that the first aid training will not make your staff qualified first aiders. In order for someone to become a qualified first aider, further training that includes at least 18 training and assessment contact hours is required.

More information on the legal duties of an employer can be found at hse.gov.uk

What does this course cover?

This course covers both the essentials of manual handling and first aid, split over two separate courses. After taking the Manual Handling in the Workplace course, learners will:

Understand why manual handling procedures can be dangerous and why it is important to keep safe in the workplace
Understand their employer’s legal obligation to ensure employees are aware of health and safety requirements
Have an understanding of the bone structure in the human spine
Be able to move and handle objects safely

After taking the First Aid Primary Survey course, learners will:

Know what to do if you are first on the scene of an accident
Be able to assess the situation as a potential danger zone
Understand Danger, Response, Airways, Breathing and Circulation
Understand the importance of the recovery position and how to apply it

Manual Handling and First Aid Training Pack Certificate

The end of both of these courses consists of a test of 15 multiple choice questions. Learners are required to achieve an 75% pass mark for the First Aid training and 85% for the manual handling training.

Learners may attempt the tests three times each at no extra cost, having revisited the training material.

If learners do not immediately achieve the pass mark, further attempts may be given by contacting our Learner Support team. Learners can download and print digital certificates immediately upon completion.

Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records. The content of this training has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

What courses are included in this training package?

Within this manual handling and first aid training package are two of our most popular health and safety courses in Manual Handling in the Workplace and First Aid at Work Course: Primary Survey.

Other health and safety courses we offer include our Complete Health and Safety Training Package, Awareness of Health and Safety at Work and Health and Safety Training Package.

You will learn

Understand why manual handling procedures can be dangerous and why it is important to keep safe in the workplace

Understand their employer’s legal obligation to ensure employees are aware of health and safety requirements

Know what to do if you are first on the scene of an accident

Be able to assess the situation as a potential danger zone

Who is it for?

Roles including:

Any business who wants to train their staff in manual handling and first aid

Anyone looking to develop their health and safety knowledge

Legislation

Legislation covered in this course includes:

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations are the most significant when it comes to this area of safety, sometimes incorrectly referred to as the ‘manual handling act’. This dedicated piece of legislation is designed to help employers and employees manage, control and ultimately reduce the risk of injuries that might come about from poor manual handling practice. One of the most important elements of the legislation is that, when it came into force in 1993, it placed a requirement on employers to take action in respect of manual handling and ensured that they had a responsibility to their employees.

Read our full article on Manual Handling Legislation here.

Manual Handling and First Aid Training Package FAQs

Must every organisation have a first aider?

According to guidance from HSE, every workplace should have at least one first aid kit and someone in the team appointed to be in charge of delivering first aid or calling the emergency services if required.
You can learn more about First Aid Policy in the Workplace in this article.
What are the three primary duties of a first aider?

The first aim of first aid is to preserve life, which involves the key emergency practices to ensure that the casualty isn’t in any mortal danger.
Once you’ve followed all the steps associated with the first principle, your next priority is to prevent deterioration of the injured person’s condition.
Finally, there are steps you should follow which will help lessen the amount of time taken for a casualty to recover from an accident and aid in minimising lasting damage and scarring. We call this promoting recovery.
To learn more about the principles of First Aid, click here.
What level of first aid training do I need?

There are two types of first aid qualification that certify someone as a first aider: First Aid at Work (FAW) and Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW). First Aid at Work is a Level 3 qualification, while Emergency First Aid at Work is classed as a Level 2 qualification.
You can learn more about First Aid here, and see our full list of First Aid courses, including packages here.

How the online courses work

Find a course

To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.
Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.
Buy the course

When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.
Take the course

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.
The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.
Your Certificate

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.
If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.