First aid and CPR with AED, one day
A hands-on life support course where every participant completes full CPR cycles and AED drills personally and is assessed on them.
- Duration
- 1 day, 7 contact hours
- Delivery
- Your site. We bring the manikins and AED trainer units
- Practical
- Full CPR cycles on adult manikins and AED drills
- Assessment
- Written check plus individual manikin practical
- Certificate
- ITF certificate of completion, valid 1 year
- Trainer
- Medically qualified life support trainer
A one-day, on-site first aid and CPR course with AED practice. It concentrates on the few interventions that change an outcome, early recognition, early CPR, early defibrillation and control of severe bleeding, and adds choking, burns and heat illness. Every participant is assessed on the manikin. Certificates are numbered and valid for one year.
- 01 Enquiry
- 02 Needs analysis
- 03 Programme design
- 04 Scheduling
- 05 Delivery
- 06 Assessment
- 07 Certification
- 08 Records
First aid and CPR with AED, one day sits at step 5 of the delivery cycle. You receive course materials and an attendance record.
The AED nobody has opened
In many buildings the AED sits in a cabinet by reception. The cabinet is alarmed, nobody is sure they are allowed to open it, and the pads inside may be past their date.
When someone collapses, the device that most changes the odds stays on the wall while the room waits for somebody qualified.
The other failures are human. "Somebody call an ambulance" is shouted to a group and nobody calls. Bystanders press too gently, or stop compressions to hunt for a pulse. With a female casualty, people hesitate over pad placement, and the hesitation costs time the casualty does not have.
The course is built on those failures. The call to 997 is practised as an instruction to one named person. Compressions are repeated until the rate and depth are right without counting aloud. Pad placement on a female casualty is taught directly, including how to keep her covered while doing it. The day ends with a collapse scenario nobody knows is coming.
Twelve modules, four of them doing most of the work
Most of the day goes to four actions: recognising cardiac arrest early, starting CPR at once, getting an AED onto the casualty quickly, and stopping catastrophic bleeding. The rest is there because it happens at work. The day runs like the fire course: registration and a knowledge check at 09:00, two classroom blocks either side of Dhuhr and lunch, the practical from 14:30 in rotations, assessment and close by 17:00.
| Module | What is covered | Format |
|---|---|---|
| 1. The first aider's role | Scene safety, consent and personal protection. | Classroom |
| 2. Primary survey | Danger, response, airway, breathing, circulation. | Classroom |
| 3. The chain of survival | Calling the Saudi Red Crescent on 997, and sending one named person for the nearest AED. | Classroom |
| 4. Adult CPR | Compression rate and depth, ventilations, and compression-only CPR. | Manikin |
| 5. The AED | Pad placement, safety and shock delivery on an AED trainer unit. | AED trainer |
| 6. Choking | The conscious and the unconscious casualty, adult and child. | In pairs |
| 7. The recovery position | The unresponsive casualty who is breathing. | In pairs |
| 8. Severe bleeding | Direct pressure, dressings and tourniquet awareness. | In pairs |
| 9. Burns and electrical injury | Burns, scalds and electrical injury, for technical and plant areas. | Classroom |
| 10. Medical emergencies | Shock, fainting, seizures and diabetic emergencies. | Classroom |
| 11. Injuries and moving a casualty | Fractures, sprains, basic immobilisation and moving a casualty safely. | Classroom |
| 12. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke | Recognition, cooling at once and escalation. In a yard or a plant room in summer, heat exhaustion turns into heat stroke fast, and sitting it out in the shade is the wrong call. | Classroom |
| Collapse scenario | Unannounced, run as a team, from the first shout to the AED. | Practical |
Your file after the day
Everything below is handed over as one pack.
Signed attendance register
One entry per participant, signed on the day.
Competency checklists and marked papers
One completed manikin checklist and one marked written check per participant.
Numbered certificates with expiry dates
An ITF certificate of completion per participant who passed, valid for one year from the course date.
Dated photographs of the practical
Taken on the manikins and at the collapse scenario, unless photography is restricted on your site.
The trainer's qualification record
The medical qualification behind every certificate in the pack.
A register of first aiders by shift
Every participant with certificate number, expiry date and shift, ready for your HSE file.
Participant handout
The response chain, the CPR sequence and the 997 call script.
On the manikin, one person at a time
A written knowledge check on the modules, then an individual practical marked against a competency checklist. A participant who does not meet the checklist receives no certificate, and we tell you who and why. Everyone who passes receives a numbered certificate valid for one year, signed by a trainer whose qualification record is in your pack.
- 01
Check the scene and the casualty's response
Danger first, then response, then breathing. Confirm unresponsive and not breathing normally before anything else.
- 02
Send one named person to call 997, another for the AED
An instruction to a person, not an announcement to a room.
- 03
Deliver effective chest compressions
Hands centred on the chest, the rate and depth the course teaches, full recoil, pauses kept short. Marked on full cycles, not a demonstration.
- 04
Place the pads and deliver a shock safely
Pads in the positions shown on them, everyone clear before the shock, compressions resumed straight after it.
- 05
Control severe bleeding
Direct pressure and dressings, practised in pairs, with tourniquet awareness.
A fabrication yard in Jubail
A steel fabrication yard in Jubail works outdoors through the summer, with welding, grinding and work at height, and the nearest emergency department is a drive away. It runs two shifts and has one first aider, trained years ago.
The classroom ran in the site's training room and the practical in a shaded workshop bay. Heat illness and burns got more time than the standard split, and electrical injury was taught around the yard's welding sets.
Each shift sent its own group, so both shifts now have first aiders who practised on the same manikins. The unannounced collapse was staged at the workshop door, and the group had to decide for itself who fetched the yard's AED.
The yard ended up holding competency checklists and marked papers per participant, numbered certificates with the expiry date, the trainer's qualification record, dated photographs of the practical, and a register naming the first aiders on each shift.
Who should be a first aider
The number is not a ratio from a table. It depends on how many shifts you run, how far the site is from an emergency department, what the work involves, and whether anyone works alone. A site that needs a first aider on days usually needs one on nights, and one more to cover leave.
At least one per shift and per building
The people your emergency plan names. Plan for leave and rotation, or the name on the board is someone who is not there.
Supervisors of higher-risk work
The person nearest when something goes wrong.
- Work at height
- Work near electricity
- Outdoor work in summer
Often first on the scene
They are already holding a phone, they know who is in the building, and the AED cabinet is usually next to them.
Anyone on a site far from a clinic
Where help takes longer to arrive, the minutes before it arrives belong to whoever is trained on site.
Before you book
Is this an American Heart Association BLS course?
No. It issues an ITF certificate of completion, not a card from a resuscitation body. If a hospital, a clinic or a contract names a specific provider card, send us the wording before you book and we will tell you whether this course fits.
Do you cover children?
Adult CPR is the core of the course, with choking covered for adults and children. If your site has children on it, such as a school, a clinic or a family compound, tell us at enquiry and we will say whether the course needs adapting before we quote.
Can men and women train in the same session?
Yes, or in separate sessions if you prefer. Tell us at booking. Pad placement on a female casualty is taught in either format, because it is the step where a bystander hesitates.
Do you supply AEDs or first aid kits?
We bring manikins and AED trainer units for the course and sell no equipment. We will tell you what to check on the AED you already have: the battery indicator, the pad expiry date, and whether anyone can open the cabinet.
Why does this certificate expire when your other certificates do not?
Because the skill decays. A person who has not lifted an extinguisher or done compressions for a year is not the person who was assessed. A management system certificate records knowledge of a document on a date. An emergency response certificate vouches for a physical skill, so it carries a date after which it stops vouching.
Can it run in Arabic?
English is the standard delivery language. Arabic delivery and bilingual material are available on request and are quoted separately, because the trainer has to be matched to the language before we can commit to a date.
What do we have to provide?
A training room with projection and seating for the group, an open area for the fire practical, the extinguishers and drill equipment used in the practical, site access and a safety induction for our trainers, and the confirmed participant list. We bring the trainers, the manikins, the AED trainer units, the course material and every assessment document.
How many people per session?
Group size and practical arrangements are set at scoping. Every participant handles the extinguisher or works the manikin personally.
How much notice do you need?
Mobilisation, rescheduling and evidence-pack handover are set at scoping. Tell us your proposed dates, site and participant numbers.
Who is the trainer?
For fire courses, a NEBOSH-certified safety professional with field experience of industrial and facility fire risk assessment. For first aid, a medically qualified life support trainer. Their CVs and qualification certificates go to your HSE function before we mobilise, and the qualification record of the trainer who signs the certificates goes into your evidence pack.
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Tell us how far the nearest clinic is
Send the number of shifts, the kind of work and the distance to the nearest emergency department, and the proposal comes back with first aider cover per shift and the modules weighted to your site.