First Aid Services 4 Leeds is fully approved by the Health & Safety Executive to deliver certificated training courses in Workplace First Aid.

Important Information for all Employers

First Aid courses are fundamental to your business. You are legally obliged to have trained First Aiders to provide first aid to employees or visitors who may become injured or ill whilst on your company premises. You are also required to provide appropriate equipment and adequate facilities to deal with any incident that may occur. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) regulate all First Aid at Work Training and provide information to help you decide how many First Aiders and first aid facilities you need within your company.

Please feel free to Contact Us if you would like help or advice on how to decide how many First Aiders, and indeed, what type of First Aiders your particular company requires. We will be happy to help and advise you. You can also use the table below to work out how many First Aiders your company needs.

Full information can be found in Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981.

Suggested numbers of first-aid personnel to be available at all times people are at work:

1. From your risk assessment, what degree of hazard is associated with your work activities?	2. How many employees do you have?	3. What first-aid personnel do you need?
Low hazard e.g. offices, shops, libraries.	Less than 25.	At least one appointed person.
	25 - 50.	At least one first-aider trained in Emergency First Aid at Work.
	More than 50.	At least one first-aider trained in First Aid at Work for every 100 employed (or part thereof).
Higher hazard e.g. light engineering and assembly work, food processing, warehousing, extensive work with dangerous machinery or sharp instruments, construction, chemical manufacture.	Less than 5.	At least one appointed person.
	5 - 50.	At least one first-aider trained in Emergency First at Work or First Aid at Work depending on the type of injuries that might occur.
	More than 50.	At least one first-aider trained in First-aid at Work for every 50 (or part thereof).

Source from Health & Safety Executive’s The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 www.hse.gov.uk/firstaid/index.htm.

Choosing the right person to become a First Aider

Select a suitable person from your employees by their abilities of:

• Responding immediately in an emergency under normal duties.
• Possessing reliability, disposition and communication skills.
• Aptitude for adsorbing and retaining new training and learning skills.
• Ability when coping with stressful and physically demanding emergencies.