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