Risk Assessment Calculator
What is required of you?
The course that you need is determined by your own Risk Assessment. Please use our handy calculator below for help.
The HSE First Aid Regulations (1981) require you to provide adequate and appropriate; equipment, facilities and personnel to enable first aid to be given to your employees if they are injured or become ill at work. A person will not be suitable for this unless they have undergone training and have such qualifications, as the HSE approve or recognise.
In order to help you decide which course you need the following is a guide from the HSE Approved Code of Practice (ACOP).
Please ring us if you are in any doubt.
| Hazard Level determined by Risk Assessment | Number of Employees | First Aid Provision |
| Low Hazard for example, office, shops, libraries | Less than 50 | First Aider (EFAW) (At least one) |
| More than 50 | First Aider (FAW) (At least one + per 100 employees of part thereof) | |
| Higher Hazard, for example, workplaces not covered by “Low Hazard” | 5-50 | First Aider (EFAW) or FAW (Based on Hazard level) (at least one) |
| More than 50 | First Aider (FAW) (At least one per 50 Employees or part thereof) |
- The HSE recommend that members of the public who visit the workplace should be taken into account when determining first aid provision.
- In practice, a minimum of two First Aiders are required to cover planned and unplanned absences.
