Time guidance in First Aid training syllabus

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littlewoman

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Do either the 3 day First Aid syllabus or the One day Emergency First Aid course have any guidance on how much time should be spent on each subject?
 
CMG.Ltd.Senior.Consultant said:
Yes - They are in the Lesson Plans provided by the awarding body to the company which has been granted permission to teach their course.
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Thanks, I shall investigate further and ask the awarding body concerned if they do that, and if so what they do about deviations from that. (Or perhaps "Head injuries -10seconds" is part of the lesson plan)
 
You will only get the lesson plans if you are the business that is associated with the awarding body? The company that you work for who are accredited to train should have all this? If they don't then are they accredited to deliver the training as certification is provided by the awarding body and not locally produced by a training provider.
 
CMG.Ltd.Senior.Consultant said:
You will only get the lesson plans if you are the business that is associated with the awarding body? The company that you work for who are accredited to train should have all this? If they don't then are they accredited to deliver the training as certification is provided by the awarding body and not locally produced by a training provider.
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I don't follow what you're saying here? What I am trying to find out is should a First Aid trainer have been given guidelines on how much time to spend on each section. If every awarding body do this, and presuming that it would not be considered acceptable to spend 10 seconds on head injuries and another 10 on spinal injuries, I will be making a complaint to the awarding body.
 
And of course I trust that companies or training providers out there give their students information on changes to protocol at the beginning of such training... unlike a training provider that I used who told us of crucial changes to administering + Aid, 1 minute 30 seconds prior to walking into the assessment! Unbelievable..!
 
littlewoman said:
I don't follow what you're saying here? What I am trying to find out is should a First Aid trainer have been given guidelines on how much time to spend on each section. If every awarding body do this, and presuming that it would not be considered acceptable to spend 10 seconds on head injuries and another 10 on spinal injuries, I will be making a complaint to the awarding body.
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Yes - The company accredited to give the training is given the lesson plans by the awarding body - the trainer gets them from the company and delivers the course as per the lesson plans - or at least they should. If you are concerned about training malpractice then contact the company and the awarding body to raise your concerns.
 
It depends if its OFQUAL certified course or not. If its FAIB or IN House it is up to the training company to produce their own syllabus and lesson plans.

If it was a OFQUAL certificated course I can look up the recommended time for individual subjects if you let me know which ones, PM me if you like.
 
K9medic said:
It depends if its OFQUAL certified course or not. If its FAIB or IN House it is up to the training company to produce their own syllabus and lesson plans.

If it was a OFQUAL certificated course I can look up the recommended time for individual subjects if you let me know which ones, PM me if you like.
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It was an OFQUAL certified course. He spent about 10 seconds each on head injuries and spinal injuries. A lot of the other seemed to be skimped on but I couldn't really give times.
 
Ok just had a look at my syllabus / lesson plans supplied by one of the Ofqual approved Awarding Organisations for the First Aid at Work course, and the recommended times are;

Head injuries (compression, concussion & skull fracture) 15 minutes.
Stroke 20 minutes.
Spinal Injures 45 minutes.

This is on top of time spent on fractures, dislocations etc. There is some lee way on course times depending on the student’s abilities and background, but at the end of the day the stipulated teaching points need to be assessed and recorded for both the internal & external quality assurance audits.

If you want to complain, then the first point of contact would be the AO who issued the certificate (you should have been told the complaints procedure as part of the course introduction, one of the companies I work for has this posted next to the classroom door) rather than the training company, the contact details should be on the certificate.
 
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