The full 3-day HSE-recognised first aid qualification — for higher-risk workplaces.
First Aid at Work (FAW) is the comprehensive 3-day qualification for higher-risk workplaces in the UK. If your Health and Safety needs assessment has flagged hazards beyond the everyday office — machinery, chemicals, working at height, larger headcounts, lone working, or physically demanding environments like construction, warehousing, manufacturing, garages and field work — FAW is the qualification the HSE expects your nominated first aiders to hold.
Across the three days your team will go beyond the basics of EFAW: deeper assessment skills, a wider range of injuries and medical emergencies, and the confidence to lead an incident response in a complex environment. We deliver FAW across Cambridgeshire and the South East — fully classroom-based at your premises, or as a popular blended option where the theory is completed online at the team's own pace and the practical is condensed into two focused in-person days. Less time off the floor, same certificate.
Every module below is taught with practical demonstration and learner practice — not slide after slide. Skills are revisited multiple times across the course so they actually stick.
Primary survey, CPR, AED, choking, bleeding, shock, common workplace injuries — re-taught and assessed at FAW depth.
Structured handover to the emergency services, casualty history-taking, ongoing observations.
Recognising potential spinal injury, manual in-line stabilisation, head-injury observations and red flags.
Direct pressure, indirect pressure, tourniquet use, haemostatic dressings, amputation management.
Open vs closed fractures, splinting principles, RICE, when to mobilise.
Thermal, chemical and electrical burns, cooling, dressings, escalation criteria.
Chemical splash management, irrigation, embedded objects, when not to remove.
Common workplace poisons, route of entry, anaphylaxis to insect stings, escalation.
Recognise-treat-refer pathways, FAST stroke check, blood-sugar emergencies.
Recognising anaphylaxis, EpiPen / Jext / Emerade administration, post-injection care.
Recognising acute distress at work, suicidal ideation, escalation routes.
Continuous practical observation across all three days, plus a short multiple-choice paper at the end of day three.
FAW is the right choice if any of the following describe your environment:
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