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First Aid Services

Community Health · Level 6  ·  7 Chapters

Compiled by: Erick Sang

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What First Aid Services covers

First Aid Services in Community Health Level 6 covers the whole path from preventing harm to caring for a casualty and winding up. You start with community safety and health: occupational safety and health requirements, reporting hazards and incidents, basic first aid, emergency response and fire extinguisher training. Hazard and risk assessment follows. Assessing a casualty covers the scene size-up, cordoning, securing the casualty and contacting emergency services. You then perform first aid, monitor the casualty and hand over to emergency and medical personnel. Winding up covers documentation, disposal, infection prevention and control and storing reusable materials. The last outcome is Psychological First Aid: assessment tools, identifying clients, providing it, linkage and debriefing.

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Careers after First Aid Services

First Aid Services is a vital skill that opens doors to many meaningful career paths across Kenya. Whether you find yourself in a bustling Nairobi hospital, a busy matatu stage, a tea factory in Kericho, or a construction site in Mombasa, your ability to provide timely and effective first aid can save lives and build trust in your community. Mastering these skills not only prepares you for formal employment but also empowers you to be a trusted first responder in everyday situations.

  • In the Jua Kali sector, artisans often face injuries from tools and machinery; your first aid skills can make you the go-to person for immediate care, enhancing workplace safety and earning you respect and potential leadership roles.
  • Working with county government health services or Kenya Red Cross, you can be employed as a first aid attendant or emergency responder, contributing directly to public health and safety.
  • In the matatu industry, where road accidents are common, being skilled in first aid can make you indispensable as a driver or conductor who can manage emergencies on the spot.
  • The construction and agribusiness sectors demand workers who understand safety protocols and can respond to injuries, opening opportunities for roles like safety officers or first aid trainers.
  • Entrepreneurship opportunities abound: you can start a small business supplying first aid kits and training to local businesses, schools, or community groups, helping build safer environments while earning income.
  • Employers like KenGen, KTDA, and hospitality businesses highly value employees with certified first aid skills to maintain safe work environments and comply with occupational safety regulations.

By mastering first aid, you become a lifesaver and a leader in safety, increasing your employability and enabling you to make a real difference in your community. Your skills will be a foundation for a rewarding career and a safer Kenya. Keep learning, keep practicing, and watch how you transform lives—including your own!

Chapters

1
Promote community safety and health
17 topics
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2
Assess community hazards and risk prevention
26 topics
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3
Assess casualty
37 topics
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4
Perform first aid
6 topics
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5
Monitor casualty
3 topics
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6
Wind-up first aid
9 topics
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7
Provide Psychological First Aid
15 topics
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What First Aid Services covers: 43 main topics in 7 chapters

1. Promote community safety and health

  1. 1.1 Orientations on OSH requirements/regulations of tasks
  2. 1.2 Feedback on health, safety, and security concerns provided to appropriate personnel
  3. 1.3 Workplace procedures for reporting hazards, incidents, injuries and sickness
  4. 1.4 OSH requirements/regulations and workplace safety and hazard control procedures reviewed
  5. 1.5 OSH-related trainings
  6. 1.6 Prevention and Control of Work-related Injuries and Illness
  7. 1.7 Basic First-aid Trainings
  8. 1.8 Emergency Response Trainings
  9. 1.9 Trainings on use of fire-extinguisher

2. Assess community hazards and risk prevention

  1. 2.1 Arrangement of work area and items
  2. 2.2 Work standards and procedures
  3. 2.3 Prevention and control measures
  4. 2.4 Standards and procedures for incidents and emergencies
  5. 2.5 Hazards and Risks identification
  6. 2.6 Hazards and risk prevention

3. Assess casualty

  1. 3.1 Scene size up conduction
  2. 3.2 Emergencies identification
  3. 3.3 Scene cordoning
  4. 3.4 Casualty securing
  5. 3.5 Determination of nature of incident
  6. 3.6 Management of Casualty condition
  7. 3.7 Emergency services Contacting
  8. 3.8 Tools, equipment, materials and supplies identification

4. Perform first aid

  1. 4.1 First Aid measures identification
  2. 4.2 First Aid measures conducting
  3. 4.3 Casualty condition monitoring
  4. 4.4 Casualty condition conveying

5. Monitor casualty

  1. 5.1 Casualty condition Monitoring
  2. 5.2 Casualty condition is documented as per first aid principle
  3. 5.3 Casualty is handed over to the emergency and medical personnel as per first aid principle

6. Wind-up first aid

  1. 6.1 First aid activities documented as per first aid principle
  2. 6.2 First aid area cleared as per first aid principles
  3. 6.3 Material disposal
  4. 6.4 Infection Prevention and control procedures
  5. 6.5 Reusable materials stored as per work requirement

7. Provide Psychological First Aid

  1. 7.1 Psychological First Aid skills demonstrated as per psychological first aid guidelines
  2. 7.2 Psychological first aid Assessment tools obtained as per PFA Health guidelines
  3. 7.3 PFA client is identified as per psychological first aid guidelines
  4. 7.4 Psychological First Aid is provided as per Psychological first aid guidelines
  5. 7.5 Linkage for appropriate services is conducted as per work requirement
  6. 7.6 Appropriate Services reported as per PFA health guidelines
  7. 7.7 Difficult news is delivered as per PFA health guidelines
  8. 7.8 Debriefing first aid provider is conducted as per PFA guidelines

Revise this unit

Exam-style questions 98 Written to CDACC standard, with answers Test yourself 234 Multiple-choice, one at a time Practise questions 189 Quick recall — check you know the facts
3 more for this unit
Oral exam preparation 57 What the assessor asks, and how to answer out loud Worked calculations 35 Step-by-step maths with the common mistakes Quick cards 1,163 Myth busters, skill tips and scenarios

Beyond the syllabus

Decision simulator 6 On site, what would you do? Workplace scenarios 122 Real site situations — what would you do? Turn this into income 73 Where this skill earns — what to charge, how to find clients

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