First Aid & CPR
The PIMS First Aid & CPR course provides essential knowledge for responding to common workplace injuries and medical emergencies. Prompt and appropriate action can help preserve life, prevent a casualty's c...
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Program Overview
The PIMS First Aid & CPR course provides essential knowledge for responding to common workplace injuries and medical emergencies. Prompt and appropriate action can help preserve life, prevent a casualty's condition from worsening and support recovery until professional medical assistance becomes available.
The programme covers emergency assessment, CPR, choking response, bleeding control, wound care, recognition of heart attack and stroke symptoms and the use of an Automated External Defibrillator.
What You'll Learn
- Principles of First Aid and emergency response
- Initial assessment of an emergency situation
- Primary casualty assessment
- Chain of Survival
- Recognition of cardiac arrest
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
- Chest-compression techniques
- Rescue-breathing principles
- Use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- Recognition and response to choking
- Management of conscious and unconscious choking casualties
- Bleeding control
- Basic wound-care principles
- Recognition of heart attack and stroke symptoms
- Responding to common injuries and medical emergencies
Empowering professionals with knowledge, practical understanding and stronger workplace skills.
PIMSWho Should Attend?
This PIMS First Aid and CPR course is suitable for employees from all industries, HSE personnel, managers, supervisors, emergency-response teams, security staff, facilities personnel, teachers, caregivers and individuals seeking practical emergency-response knowledge.
Key Benefits
After completing the First Aid & CPR course, participants should be better prepared to:
- Recognise and assess common medical emergencies
- Respond with greater confidence during emergency situations
- Understand effective CPR principles
- Understand the use of an AED
- Assist during choking incidents
- Apply basic bleeding-control and wound-care measures
- Support workplace emergency preparedness
- Develop practical first-aid knowledge for workplace and community emergencies
Assessment & Evaluation
After completing the PIMS course material and required module quizzes, learners may proceed to the course examination.
- The examination is open book and must be completed within 2 hours.
- A minimum score of 65% is required to pass.
- Learners who do not pass may retake the examination.
- A maximum of three examination attempts is permitted within a 10-hour period.
- After three unsuccessful attempts, learners must wait 24 hours before another attempt.
- Learners should review the course material during the waiting period.
- Once the examination has been passed, it cannot be retaken solely to improve the score.
- All required assessments must be successfully completed to finish the programme.
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