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First Aid

First Aid Response (FAR)

The three-day course the Health and Safety Authority recognises as the standard for occupational first aid. Book a place on a course date, or ask us to run it for your school or workplace.

Qualification
PHECC First Aid Response (FAR)
How long
3 days (18 hours)
Ages
16 and over
Group size
Up to 8 people
Where
Ballyhass Mallow, or at your school or workplace
Certificate valid for
2 years

Ask about dates Request group training

About the course

The course covers patient assessment, incident procedures and common medical emergencies. It meets the Health and Safety Authority's requirement for occupational first aid training, and Tusla accepts it as meeting the first aid requirement for pre-school services.

To renew a FAR certificate, you take the two-day recertification course, normally within 30 days of the certificate's expiry. Otherwise the full three-day course is needed.

We also run the course privately for a school or workplace group of up to 8 people, at your premises or at Ballyhass.

What it covers

  • Communication
  • Information management
  • Patient assessment
  • Incident procedures
  • Cardiac first response (CPR and AED)
  • Common medical emergencies
  • Injury management and shock
  • Care of an unconscious patient
  • Burns and electrical injury care
  • Hypothermia and hyperthermia
  • Wellbeing of the first aid responder