First Aid Response (FAR) – 3 day

DATE: November 20, 2025 - November 26, 2025

TIME: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

VENUE: Shannon TBC, TBC, Shannon

First aid training for the workplace

PHECC has designed the First Aid Response (FAR) Standard to offer appropriate training to individuals and groups who require a first aid skill set including cardiac first response.

The FAR Standard meets the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) requirement for occupational first aid training for the workplace.

Course content:

  • Infection Prevention and Control
  • Patient Assessment
  • Incident Procedure
  • Cardiac First Responder (community)
  • Common Medical Emergencies
  • Injury Management and Shock
  • Care of the Unconscious Patient
  • Burns and Electrical Injury Care
  • Hypothermia and Hyperthermia
  • Information Management
  • Communications
  • The well-being of the first aid responder

This is 3 day programme.

Training dates: 20th, 25th & 26th November

FAR courses are certified by the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council. Certificate is valid for 2 years.

 

For more information please contact Lijana Kizaite at lkizaite@shannonchamber.ie

Shannon Chamber Skillnet is co-funded by Skillnet Ireland and member companies. Skillnet Ireland is funded from the National Training Fund through the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

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