Qualification code
FEFAW
First Aid Training
Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work
Emergency First Aid at Work with additional forestry-specific training covering catastrophic bleeding, tourniquets, haemostatic dressings and remote emergencies.
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In-house training across the UK
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Qualifications, programmes & GST courses
- Certification
- Good Skills Training
- Maximum learners
- Up to 12 per tutor
About the training
Course Overview
Our Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work course combines the Emergency First Aid at Work syllabus with additional training for the particular risks associated with forestry, arboriculture and other remote or higher-risk outdoor work.
Alongside the core emergency first aid content, learners consider how they may need to respond to serious incidents involving cutting equipment, machinery, falls, crushing injuries and life-threatening bleeding.
The forestry element includes practical training in catastrophic bleeding control, including wound packing, haemostatic dressings and commercial tourniquets. Learners practise using the equipment and explore when these interventions may be appropriate.
The course also considers the additional challenges created by working in remote locations, including scene safety, communicating your location, accessing emergency assistance and managing a casualty where emergency response times may be extended.
Training is practical, interactive and relevant, with forestry and land-based scenarios used wherever possible so that learners can apply their first aid skills to the types of incidents they may actually encounter at work.
Who should attend?
Who is this course for?
- Forestry workers and contractors.
- Arborists and tree surgeons.
- Chainsaw and cutting-equipment operators.
- Grounds, estate and land-based workers.
- Employees working in remote or difficult-to-access outdoor environments.
- Workers whose role creates a foreseeable risk of serious or life-threatening bleeding.
- Employees whose first aid needs assessment identifies Emergency First Aid at Work with additional forestry-specific training as appropriate.
Course content
What will you learn?
- Role and responsibilities of an emergency first aider.
- Assessing an incident and maintaining scene safety.
- Primary survey and casualty assessment.
- CPR and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).
- Recovery position.
- Choking.
- Seizures.
- Wounds and bleeding.
- Recognising and responding to life-threatening bleeding.
- Direct pressure and wound packing.
- Use of haemostatic dressings.
- When and how to use a commercial tourniquet.
- Shock and casualty monitoring.
- Forestry incidents involving chainsaws, axes, winches, machinery, falls and crushing.
- First aid considerations in remote locations.
- Environmental considerations and outdoor working conditions.
- Communicating location information to the emergency services.
- Managing extended emergency response times.
- Practical forestry-related first aid scenarios.
- Structured handover to the emergency services.
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Course Information
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Maximum learners
Maximum learner-to-tutor ratio: 12:1.
Prerequisites
There are no formal prerequisite qualifications for attending the Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work course.
This is a practical first aid course. Learners must be able to take part in practical demonstrations and assessments, including CPR performed at floor level and casualty-management activities.
The forestry element also includes practical severe-bleeding exercises using training tourniquets, wound-packing materials and haemostatic dressings.
Learners should tell us before the course about any disability, injury, medical condition or additional support requirement that could affect their participation so that appropriate support and reasonable adjustments can be considered.
Course duration
The Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work course is delivered face-to-face over 1 extended training day.
The course includes the Emergency First Aid at Work content together with an additional forestry-specific element covering catastrophic bleeding, wound packing, tourniquets, haemostatic dressings and remote-working emergencies.
The day combines tutor-led learning with demonstrations, practical exercises, realistic forestry scenarios and assessment.
Assessment
The Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work course is assessed through a combination of a multiple-choice knowledge assessment and practical assessment.
Learners complete a 20-question multiple-choice assessment. They have a maximum of 30 minutes to complete the paper and must correctly answer at least 15 out of 20 questions to pass.
Learners must also successfully demonstrate the required emergency first aid skills during practical assessments.
The forestry-specific practical assessment includes responding to life-threatening bleeding and demonstrating the appropriate use of wound-packing techniques, haemostatic dressings and commercial tourniquets.
Learners must successfully complete both the knowledge and practical assessment requirements to achieve the course.
Certification
Learners who successfully complete the course and assessment receive a Good Skills Training Forestry Emergency First Aid at Work certificate, valid for 3 years.
Good Skills Training is ISO 9001 certified for the delivery of training and consultancy services, including course certification. You can find out more about how we certificate first aid courses here.
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