CPR & Basic First Aid
A practical workplace training programme that equips employees with essential first-aid knowledge, CPR awareness and emergency-response skills to act safely and confidently until professional medical help arrives.
What your team walks away with
- Understand the basic principles of workplace first aid
- Recognize common medical emergencies requiring immediate action
- Assess an emergency situation and activate appropriate emergency assistance
- Understand the basic steps of adult CPR
- Practice CPR techniques using an appropriate training manikin
- Understand the purpose and basic operation of an AED
- Respond appropriately to a choking emergency
- Provide basic first aid for bleeding, wounds and burns
- Understand appropriate first-aid response for fainting and seizures
- Communicate and escalate medical emergencies effectively
CPR & Basic First Aid
This practical workplace workshop equips employees with essential first-aid knowledge and emergency-response skills to provide appropriate initial assistance during common workplace medical emergencies.
Participants learn how to recognize life-threatening emergencies, activate emergency medical services, perform CPR on an adult using appropriate technique, understand AED awareness, and provide basic first aid for common workplace injuries and medical situations.
Workshop Focus
- Understanding basic first-aid principles
- Recognizing medical emergencies
- Emergency assessment and response
- CPR awareness and hands-on practice
- Automated External Defibrillator (AED) awareness
- Choking response
- Bleeding and wound management
- Burns and basic injury care
- Fainting, seizures and other common emergencies
- Emergency communication and escalation
The session combines instructor demonstrations, hands-on practice and realistic workplace scenarios to help participants respond appropriately while waiting for professional medical assistance.
Session outline
- 01
First Aid & Emergency Response Fundamentals
15 min- First-aid principles
- Emergency assessment
- Scene safety
- Calling for help
- Emergency medical services
- Responder safety
- 02
CPR & Cardiac Emergency Response
30 min- Recognizing cardiac arrest
- Activating emergency response
- Chest compressions
- Rescue breaths
- CPR sequence
- Hands-on manikin practice
- 03
AED Awareness
15 min- What is an AED
- AED purpose
- Safety precautions
- AED prompts
- Hands-on demonstration
- Coordination with CPR
- 04
Choking & Medical Emergencies
20 min- Recognizing choking
- Adult choking response
- Emergency escalation
- Fainting
- Seizures
- Breathing emergencies
- 05
Common Workplace Injuries
20 min- Bleeding and wounds
- Burns
- Minor injuries
- Fracture awareness
- Sprains and strains
- When to seek medical assistance
- 06
Practical Scenario & Response Exercise
20 min- Emergency scenario
- Scene assessment
- CPR practice
- AED response
- First-aid response
- Emergency communication
- Response review