First Aid Annual Skills Update | E-Learning Refresher
First aid knowledge fades rapidly over time. Specifically, critical manual proficiencies like high-quality CPR and tourniquet application drop within months. The Health and Safety Executive strongly recommends that trained personnel undertake annual training intervals. Consequently, this digital module maintains your team safety standards efficiently.
However, this short digital course does not replace full practical re-certifications. For instance, some individuals prefer hands-on classroom practice. Therefore, view our alternative First Aid Annual Skills Update (face to face) track. Alternatively, new learners can access the primary full FAW course page to secure physical classroom dates instead.
Therefore, managing employee compliance requires access to flexible learning systems. For instance, explore our active FAQ page to evaluate which learning pathway suits your business operations. Our digital enrolment pathways remain open constantly to fit your administrative timelines perfectly.
What the Update Covers
Our concise curriculum covers core medical response updates. Specifically, the self-paced training blocks refresh these vital first aid fields:
- CPR Protocol: Reviewing current UK Resuscitation Council guidance regarding compression rate, depth, and rescue breathing techniques.
- AED Operations: Recalling critical automated external defibrillator deployment steps alongside recent clinical guideline adaptations.
- Casualty Management: Executing the primary survey accurately and placing an unresponsive breathing individual into the recovery position.
- Choking Responses: Implementing clearing procedures to support choking adults and children safely during choking emergencies.
- Catastrophic Bleeding: Reviewing life-saving tourniquet application techniques and severe wound packing protocols cleanly.
- Medical Emergencies: Recognizing signs of acute heart attacks, strokes, asthma attacks, anaphylaxis, hypoglycaemia, and seizures.
- Guideline Adaptations: Evaluating all significant procedural adjustments introduced since your previous formal qualification period.
Course Details and Certification
We deliver this program through a flexible online portal to maximize convenience. Our learning platform remains fully compatible with all modern smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers.
- Duration: Requires approximately one to three hours of self-paced study to complete.
- Daily Support: Our administrative helpline and technical email desks remain active from 9:00am daily.
- Testing Method: Contains progressive learning assessments alongside a definitive multiple-choice exam paper online.
- Certification: Delivers an official Chris Garland Training PDF certificate valid for one year.
- CPD Allocation: Fully approved by the CPD Accreditation Group to award one professional point.
Prerequisites and Joining Instructions
This refresher suits anyone over 16 holding a valid first aid certificate. We recommend a baseline of Level 2 literacy to complete the testing pages comfortably. However, this parameter is not mandatory. Please contact our team directly to arrange reasonable learning adjustments before purchase.
Shortly after purchasing your digital seats, our system transmits automated credentials to your inbox. Please check our dedicated Joining Instructions page to review our e-learning platform configuration parameters. If you need to refresh large teams, please complete our Corporate Quotations Form.
Related Training and Compliance Guides
We host multiple emergency frameworks and technical data references to optimize your corporate safety protocols completely.
- Classroom Refresher: Review our hands-on alternative via the First Aid Annual Skills Update (face to face) profile.
- Instructor Training: Upskill your internal training assets on the Basic Life Support Instructor Refresher page.
- Specialist Care: Access specialized clinical refresher protocols on the Ligature Response Training – Annual Refresher track.
- Height Safety: Protect team members working at elevation by reviewing our Ladder and Step ladder User Safety Refresher Training.
- Corporate Policy: Examine our explicit administrative compliance guidelines by reading our Maladministration and Malpractice Policy.
- Requalification Path: Renew expiring skills via our FAW Requalification portal.
- Full Certification: Access initial three-year credentials on our full FAW page.
- Refresher Mandates: Review official statutory guidelines on the HSE first aid refresher training page.
Gareth Milton –
My First Aid at Work certificate expired 2 years ago. Is the online Annual Skills Update course right for me to obtain a new certificate?
ChrisGarland –
Hi Gareth.
Short answer; no. This course is for those who are still in date and want to brush up on their skills. If you’re certificate (either for a 1 day emergency first aid at work, or 3 day first aid at work) expired 2 years ago, you will need to re-do a full first aid course again. Note that the Health and Safety Executive deem that you shouldn’t be regarded as being a first aider in your workplace if your certificate is more than one month out of date.
Regards
Chris