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    • Remote First Aid

    Health & Safety Management Courses Level 4

    This qualification is designed to support the roles in an environment, where the primary or secondary focus of the role involves giving emergency medical care as the first person on the scene of an accident or emergency.

    Ideally suited for security operatives, close protection officers and event medical staff. As the First Person On Scene, you’ll be responsible for stabilising the condition of the patient and caring for them until help arrives.

    Topics covered include assessing and responding to incidents, CPR for adults, therapeutic oxygen therapy and catastrophic bleeding. The qualification also covers assisting a casualty who is suffering from major trauma injury or illness such as chest injuries, spinal injuries, heart attack and anaphylaxis.

    WHAT

     

    In line with industry guidance, the qualification supports responders for a period of 3 years, at which point learners will need to attened the requlification course. In addition, we recommend that learners refresh their knowledge annually.

     

    This modern, fit‑for‑purpose qualification meets employers’ needs and prepares learners to step confidently into the role of the Emergency Care First Responder role. Developing and building real-world practical skills and with real‑world decision‑making required for effective pre‑hospital emergency care. This regulated qualification allows learners to develop their knowledge and skills before joining the fully immersive face-to-face training.

    Topics covered include:

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    • Understanding the role and own responsibilities as a first responder
    • Be able to asses an incident and conduct casualty surveys
    • Be able to manage an unresponsive casualty
    • Understand when to administer nitrous oxide and pentrox in line with own scope of practice
    • Understand how to safely store and handle medical gas cylinders
    • Be able to manage medical gases & penthrox in terms of security, management and logging use
    • Be able to recognise and manage a compromised airway
    • Be able to administer first aid to a casualty with external bleeding
    • Be able to recognise and manage a casualty who is in shock
    • Be able to effectively asses a casualty’s condition
    • Be able to recognise and manage casualty with suspected injuries to bones, muscles and joints
    • Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with suspected head and spinal injuries
    • Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with a suspected chest injury
    • Understand how to administer first aid to a casualty with minor injuries
    • Understand how sudden poisoning can occur and how to provide first aid to a casualty with sudden poisoning
    • Be able to recognise and administer first aid to a casualty with a suspected medical emergency or major illness such as spinal injuries, heart attack and anaphylaxis, including administration of medications listed in exepmtions, i.e aspirin, adreniline for anaphylaxis
    • CPR for Adults, Adolecents, Children and infants

    Assessment:

    Assessment is by way of a practical and multiple choice assessment. For IQA reasons some assessments may be filmed for quality purposes.

    Certification:

    Students who successfully complete the course will be awarded the Level 3 Award in Emergency Care for First Responders (RQF) which has been developed and is awarded by Highfield Qualifications and sits on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF).

    The RQF is a qualification framework regulated by Ofqual. The qualification is also regulated by Qualifications Wales.

    Course duration:

    Our Highfield L3 ECFR Courses run for 5 days in a blended format.

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    Assessment process includes:

    • Observed practical assessments covering essential Emergency Care First Responder skills on the last day of the course simulating real‑world incidents using live simulated casualties
    • Final multi-choice exam paper

    Learners must meet all required performance criteria to achieve the Emergency Care First Responder (RQF) qualification.