The HSE have stated that if your FAW certificate expires after the 19th March 2020 then you can have a three month extension provided you have tried to access requalification training and explain why you could not.
For more information see the HSE website
New research suggests that taking time to extricate casualties from car wrecks, rather then letting them climb out themselves, is detrimental to the 99.7% who do not have spinal injuries.
The Resuscitation Council UK have revised their guidelines after another review of the COVID-19 situation.
A few days ago we had an email from a student thanking us for our training, as she had used it to help a friend who had had a heart attack.
We should stop teaching people to use ice on injuries as there is no medical evidence that it works.
Our mental health courses are designed by NHS mental health professionals and focus on what you should actually do to help someone in a mental health crisis. We believe they are the best workplace mental health courses available.
At Marlin we have always taught splinting during First Aid at Work (FAW) training, but it seems that for many trainers splinting protocols simply aren’t being taught. “Call the ambulance” has become the ‘First Aid Protocol’.
