FAIB Award in Outdoor First Aid
Regulated and Certificated
£130 + VAT (£156)
2-days (16 hours) duration
Course dates:
- 14th – 15th November 2024 – Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales
- 28th – 29th January 2025 – Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales
- 19th – 20th February 2025 – Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales
- 11th – 12th March 2025 – Llandrindod Wells, Mid Wales
For private/bespoke courses or courses tailored for the sports field, please contact us.
Outdoor First Aid Training
Enhance your proficiency in the outdoors with Outdoor First Aid Training.
Our Outdoor First Aid Courses will set you up with the knowledge and confidence to manage incidents ranging from a cut finger to a multiple casualty emergency in a remote location. We’ll deliver this first aid training in a fun and friendly atmosphere whilst providing as much realism as possible.
Participants on our outdoor first aid courses come from many backgrounds and occupations including Forest School leaders, teachers, outdoor instructors, youth leaders, parents, students, office workers, people working in remote and foreign locations, tradespeople etc.
There is a small element of e-learning prior to the course to enable us to spend more time in outdoor scenarios during the training.
The course covers those +F topics required by forestry workers.
Topics this course covers includes:
- Critical bleeding (i.e. chainsaw injury)
- First aid for the outdoors environment
- Casualty management
- Unconscious casualty management
- Primary and secondary survey
- Resuscitation inc. children and drowning
- Providing first aid to a casualty who has been immersed in water
- Choking and shock
- Wounds and bleeding
- Medical conditions
- Diabetes
- Asthma
- Anaphylaxis
- Fainting
- Crush injuries
- Head and spinal injuries
- Chest injuries
- Fractures
- Dislocations
- Sprains and strains
- Eye injuries
- Poisons
- Heart attacks, strokes and angina
- Bites and stings
- Effects of heat and cold inc. hypothermia, frost bite and dehydration
- Burns and scalds
- Small cuts, grazes, bruises, splinters and nosebleeds
- Lymes disease
- Working remotely
Please contact us for private or bespoke Outdoor First Aid courses.
LEARN MORE...
The 2-day (16 hour) Level 3 Outdoor First Aid qualification is a comprehensive outdoor first aid course designed to meet the needs of those who work and play in the outdoors in potentially remote locations and meets NGB standards. The course encompasses a mixture of theoretical and practical sessions along with scenarios taking place outdoors and is run in a friendly and relaxed environment. For a small additional fee (£15 + VAT) we can also issue an Emergency First Aid at Work certificate as well as the Outdoor First Aid certificate.
The Wilderness Project is regulated by the First Aid Industry Body (FAIB). All FAIB certificates are recognised by HSE and Department for Education/OFSTED Inspectors. The FAIB quality managment system holds third party Certification via UKAS and operates under the standards required for ISO 9001 (2015).
The FAIB are one of the founding members of the First Aid Quality Partnership (FAQP), a body that includes representation from HSE, the Resuscitation Council (UK), the Voluntary Aid Societies and from OFQUAL, SQA as well as Fire, Police and Ambulance. The Wilderness Project meets the Quality Assurance standards published by the FAQP.
We deliver our training in a fun and friendly atmosphere whilst providing as much realism as possible.
We offer open courses and private group bookings as well as bespoke first aid training e.g for DofE. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
WHY CHOOSE US?
- Instructors have extensive real-life remote outdoor experience
- Rigorous standards of content, instruction and examination – ensured through the use of a professional regulating body
- Pdf certificates issued free of charge
- Comprehensive first aid manual provided free of charge
- Significant focus on practical learning with outdoor scenarios
- QCPR App technology used in training
- High standard of training equipment and ratio of equipment to participant.
- Option for an EFAW certificate as part of the 2-day Outdoor course
- Strict hygiene and equipment cleaning protocols
Before booking your place, please ensure you read our terms and conditions.