Descriptif

Reinforce your knowledge and confidence, re-train for emergency situations and act as a first aider at work. 

Have you not had the opportunity to apply your first aid skills in the workplace since your last training course? As an occupational first aider, this refresher training enables you to reinforce your knowledge and practise responding to emergency situations with confidence.

By completing this training, you maintain the validity of your certification as an occupational first aider in accordance with the Belgian Code on Well-being at Work.

An annual refresher course (or every two years, based on a prior risk assessment) of at least 4 hours is mandatory.

An occupational first aider who is unable to attend a scheduled refresher session must complete another refresher course within the following 12 months, in addition to their annual refresher training (2 × 4 hours). If this is not possible, the employee must complete the full basic training course again.

Objectives 

• Maintain the validity of your Occupational First Aider certificate 

• Reinforce the skills acquired during the basic training course 

• Update your knowledge in line with new or revised first aid practices 

Course Content 

This training course is delivered by the Belgian Red Cross as an organisation officially approved by the Belgian Federal Public Service Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue. 

The refresher training is available in either a 4-hour or 6-hour format and includes a review of the following topics and techniques: 

• Basic Rules for First Aid (112 call) 

• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation 

• Assessment of vital signs 

• Casualty who is unconscious but breathing normally 

• Choking 

• Severe external bleeding 

Plus one additional module selected by the client (two additional modules for the 6-hour refresher course), such as:

• Medical emergencies
• Limb injuries
• Wounds
• Burns
• Paediatric first aid (only for participants who have previously completed paediatric first aid training)
• Other topics upon request