First Aid Tailored to Outdoor Pursuits. Feel confident with your First Aid skills when out in the open-air.
Outdoor Pursuits 16 Hour First Aid to meet the requirements laid down by many outdoor pursuits as it covers primary and secondary care and adapted to the outdoor world where the emergency services may be harder to access. We also offer a shorter course if that is all you require or other specific workplace courses.
You can find a link to the online part 1 course here.
All our first aid courses fully meet the UK and European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021 as per the HSE requirements.
The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.
This is the classroom-only part 2 of a 2-part blended course. Before taking this course, you MUST complete the online course.
- Watersports instructors
- SCUBA instructors
- Mountain climbers
- Outdoor pursuits instructors and students
This course comes with 18.0 hours of CPD, although the time to complete the course online may be less than this.
The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.
- Introductory First Aid Training
- Fears of First Aid
- Asking Permission to Help
- Scene Safety
- Chain of Survival
- ABCD's
- Initial Assessment
- Stop Think Act
- Barriers
- Face Shields
- Adult Bag Mask (optional)
- First Aid Kit
- Dealing with an Emergency away from EMS support
- Deciding to move a patient or not
- Cardiac Arrest
- Adult CPR
- Adult CPR Hand Over
- Compression-Only CPR
- AED Introduction
- Heart Attack
- Choking Training
- Conscious Adult Choking
- Unconscious Adult Choking
- Bleeding Control
- Types of Bleeding
- Serious Bleeding
- Internal bleeding
- Plasters
- Other Injuries
- Secondary Care Ongoing Assessments for Injury and Illness
- Illness Assessment
- RICE - Strains, Sprains and Soft Tissue Injuries
- Adult Fractures
- Head Injury
- Eye Injuries
- Spinal Injury
- Allergies
- Burns
- Heat and Cold Emergencies
- Shock
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Epilepsy and Seizures
