First Aid - Standard - Red Cross

Summary

Safety for workers and motorists is important, including workers setting up, operating, and removing traffic control.

This course provides basic requirements for traffic control in work zones during roadway or utility construction and maintenance operations.

Course Outline

Preparing to Respond – Introduction
Emergency Medical System (911)
Recovery Position (unconscious breathing)
CPR for adults, children and babies
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
Heart attack/Angina & Stroke/TIA
Choking (adults, children and babies)
Responding as a “team”
Anaphylactic Shock (severe allergy) and Asthma
Deadly bleeding – internal and external
Amputations – partial and complete / Impaled objects

Shock/Fainting
Wound Basics (minor cuts, scrapes, punctures, bruises and burns)
Secondary Survey
Head & spinal injuries
Muscle, bone & joint injuries
Burns (heat, chemical, electrical, sun)
Diabetic emergencies
Seizures or Convulsions (includes infant/child high fever)
Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke
Hypothermia and frostbite
Emergency child birth
Poisoning