Planning First Aid Requirements for Employers & Managers

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Planning First Aid Requirements for Employers & Managers

Learn how to assess and plan first aid provisions for your workplace. This course covers risk assessment, legal responsibilities, and structuring effective first aid arrangements tailored to your team’s needs.

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Course Overview

CPD/CE Points:  60 Mins

Assessment:  10

Pass Rate:  80%

Ideal For:  Catering Supervisor

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Food Compliance HQ Administrator
Food Compliance HQ Administrator

Course Details

This course is designed to empower business owners, employers, and managers with essential knowledge of first aid compliance. By emphasising the importance of effective first aid practices in maintaining safety within food service environments, the course ensures that both employers and employees fully understand their legal and ethical responsibilities. Participants will gain the skills to assess and prepare tailored first aid provisions that address business-specific risks, fostering a safer workplace for all. By the end of this course, you should be able to conduct a first aid risk assessment to identify the first aid provisions you require on your premises.

Course Aims

This course aims to equip business owners, employers and managers with a foundational understanding of first aid compliance. It will highlight the importance of first aid practices for maintaining safety in food settings and ensure employers and employees understand their legal and ethical responsibilities in providing effective first aid. The course aims to guide the important process of assessing and preparing first aid provisions tailored to business-specific risks.

Course Objectives

•    Identify the role and significance of first aid in a food-related setting.
•    Outline employers’ and employees’ responsibilities regarding first aid arrangements.
•    Conduct a first aid risk assessment and determine appropriate first aid needs and provisions.
•    Identify what first aid training is required.
•    Recognise the necessary components of a compliant first aid kit for food environments.
•    Explain the requirements under RIDDOR for first aid-related reporting and record-keeping.

Course Curriculum

  • Introduction to first aid
  • What is first aid?
  • Why is first aid awareness important in food settings?
  • Common first aid scenarios
  • Why first aid compliance matters

  • Employers' legal duties
  • Employer’s responsibilities
  • Employees contribute to workplace safety

  • Determining the correct first aid provision
  • Conducting a first aid risk assessment
  • Scenario: Opening day at Bella’s Bistro
  • Minimising and preventing hazards
  • First aid preparations

  • Important first aid provision guidance
  • Appointed Person (AP)
  • Health and Safety Executive
  • If you require trained first-aiders
  • Recap of how assess first aid needs

  • Recommended first aid kit items for food settings
  • Infection prevention should be considered

  • What is RIDDOR?
  • What should be reported under RIDDOR?
  • Scenario for a RIDDOR submission in a Café setting
  • Essential details for the RIDDOR
  • Accident book
  • Auditing first aid provisions
  • Summary

  • Reporting and record keeping 10 Assessments

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