FPOS Basic is for people who may have to manage an incident for up to 20 minutes before the arrival of the emergency services. The course typically runs for up to 20 hours and includes:

• Scene safety
• Patient assessment
• Breathing and airway management
• Basic Life Support (CPR)
• Defibrillation

• Control of bleeding and care of shock
• Medical emergencies (e.g. heart attack, diabetes, stroke, epilepsy)
• Trauma care (e.g. fractures, burns, head injury)

• Triage
• Safe moving and handling
• Suction
• Removal of crash helmets
• Use of airways and oxygen
• Spinal stabilisation

We offer a 6-hour course, delivered on your own premises, which meets the recommendations for Appointed Persons under the First Aid at Work Regulations (1981).  Typical course content includes safety, basic life support, defibrillation awareness, unconsciousness, bleeding, shock, burns, fractures and first aid kits. Whilst some topics are essential, we are happy to tailor the balance of content to reflect your own working environment.

We can offer courses accredited by the international training organisation Emergency First Response ^TM. We can also offer 24-hour courses in First Aid at Work. Please ask for details.

We like to be flexible. We modified one of our courses so that it could be delivered (through an interpreter) to users of British Sign Language. As a result, a dozen deaf people enjoyed learning first aid (and within weeks had put those skills into practice.)