Employers and providers of care services must provide adequate and appropriate first-aid equipment, facilities and personnel to ensure employees or those in their care receive immediate attention if they are injured or take ill.
Since 1 October 2013 HSE no longer approves first-aid training and qualifications or first-aid training organisations. This means that businesses have more flexibility in how they manage their provision of first aid in the workplace.
This means that it is the employer’s duty to ensure that any training provider that they select for the purposes of first-aid training is competent to deliver that training.
