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Online First Aid at Work Course (Primary Survey)

Our online first aid course equips your team with essential life-saving skills, whether they're learning for the first time or refreshing existing knowledge. After completing this first aid course online, your staff will confidently handle emergencies, knowing exactly what to do at accident scenes, how to identify potential dangers and master critical techniques like the recovery position.

This course was reviewed and updated in February 2025

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Course Overview

Format

  • Intermediate
  • 30 - 45 Minutes
  • Online Study
  • Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

  • 1 CPD Hour
  • CPD Certified
  • RoSPA Assured

Course description

This First Aid training online course has been created by Virtual College, in partnership with First Response Training. The course will teach learners to follow the Resuscitation Council (UK) Guidelines for basic life support training and provide knowledge of how to act in the event of an incident requiring first aid assistance.

First Aid is an essential part of Health and Safety Training and can make a big difference to survival chances when an accident or emergency occurs. Thousands of accidents and emergencies happen every year and, unfortunately, many of those who die could have survived if first aid had been given sooner. Knowing what to do if you’re the first on the scene could save someone’s life.

The course will give you knowledge on how to act safely in emergency situations. You’ll learn how to follow the DRABC approach, which means you’ll find out: how to assess a casualty, how to put them into the recovery position and you’ll learn when and how to do CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation).

Who should take this first aid course online?

Everyone! This course is suitable for anyone who wants to help save a life, no matter what job role or working environment. It’s especially useful for those that are more likely to come across an accident or emergency situation but it’s great if you’re new to first aid or wanting a refresher.

This course is particularly suitable for anyone who needs to:

  • Carry out first aid risk assessment
  • Learn new first aid skills
  • Refresh your first aid skills
  • Gain new first aid knowledge

First Aid training online outcomes

Upon completion of this first aid at work course, online learners will be able to:

  • Know what to do if you are first on the scene of an accident
  • Be able to assess the situation as a potential danger zone
  • Understand Danger, Response, Airways, Breathing and Circulation
  • Understand the importance of the recovery position and how to apply it

Course accreditation & certification

This first aid training course takes approximately 30-45 minutes to complete and can be taken at your convenience, with progress automatically saved between sessions. The course concludes with an 18-question multiple choice test requiring an 80% pass mark, which can be attempted multiple times if needed.

Upon successful completion, you can immediately download and print a digital First Aid certificate. 

This course meets Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and is independently assured by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA.

Does this course make me a qualified first-aider?

To become a qualified first-aider you will need to undertake workplace first aid training that includes at least 18 training and assessment contact hours. There are many providers of face-to-face First Aid courses. Find out more information on the legal duties of an employer if you’re interested to know more.

Course duration

This first aid training course will take approximately 30 - 45 minutes to complete, depending on how quickly learners can study and absorb the material. Learners do not have to complete all the training in one session as progress is recorded throughout so it can be completed at your convenience.

Entry requirements

There are no entry requirements for this primary survey first aid course.

Further online training

We offer over 300 accredited online courses including a wide range of online health and safety training such as Manual Handling in the Workplace, Awareness of Health and Safety at Work and Fire Safety for Fire Marshals and Wardens Training Package.

Take a look at our full range of online courses.

You will learn

  • Identifying potential hazards in the environment that might prevent you being able to safely get to the casualty
  • Evaluating whether the casualty is conscious or not so that you can decide what to do next
  • How to move someone into a safe position which will also support their breathing
  • Identifying if an airway is blocked, if the casualty is breathing and how to conduct CPR to get circulation going again

Who is it for?

Roles including:

  • Anyone who needs to carry out a first aid risk assessment, learn new first aid skills, refresh first aid skills, gain new first aid knowledge, or keep their first aid skills up-to-date

First Aid at Work FAQs

  • Can first aid courses be done online?

    Yes. this online first-aid course you will understand what to do if you are first on the scene of an accident, how to assess situations as a potential danger zone and the importance of the recovery position and how to apply it. This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material.

    Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.

    The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion.

    See all of our First Aid courses here, including packages. You can also read our helpful blog article here, which gives you all the information on completing First Aid Training online.

  • Is it worth it doing a first aid at work course?

    Completing our First Aid at Work course can be very beneficial. 

    A basic understanding of first aid will help learners know what to do if they are first on the scene of an accident, including how to assess the situation as a potential danger zone and how to assess the condition of a casualty.

    Employers are legally required by Fire Safety Regulations (The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005) to provide information, instruction and training to employees about fire precautions in the workplace.

    You can find out more about the learning outcomes and policies in our helpful blog article here

  • What qualifications will I gain from this first aid course with certificate?

    The content of this first aid and fire safety training has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines. Learners will be able to download a digital certificate on completion of each course. This can be printed, and we suggest you keep it for your records. 

    You can learn more about the course and what it entails here.

How the online courses work

  • Find a course

    To begin searching for your online training you can click on the course category section on our website and browse through all of our training categories.

    Alternatively if you already know the title of the training you’re looking for you can use the search bar located in the centre of the homepage and go directly to the course you want.

  • Buy the course

    When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.

    Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.

    If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.

  • Take the course

    This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.

    The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.

  • Your Certificate

    Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College which will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable, the learner's name, the title of the course and the date of completion.

    If you have purchased the posted certificate option, available on selected courses, a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out the following working week after completion.