Course Details
Our Outdoor First Aid course provides essential first aid skills for anyone who works or spends time in the outdoors. This practical two-day course covers how to manage injuries and medical emergencies in remote environments, ensuring you can respond effectively until professional help arrives.
This qualification is designed to enable learners to undertake the role of the first aider when in rural and the more remote regions of the UK.
It is suitable for self-reliant outdoor activity instructors, teachers or leaders operating in situations where a number of hazards may be present or help may be up to a few hours away for example an outdoor education tutor, mountain or canoe expedition leader, Duke of Edinburgh assessor or forest school leader.
The learner will gain the first aid skills and knowledge to competently and confidently provide first aid in an outdoor
remote environment.
The 16-hour qualification meets the Outdoor First Aid Band 3 requirements set by the Institute for Outdoor Learning and the requirements for the first aid element of the expedition syllabus for the bronze, silver and gold Duke of Edinburgh awards.
This qualification is regulated in the UK and awarded by First Aid Awards (FAA).
