Course Description
This online course gives you the skills and knowledge to be able to develop an asthma risk assessment and emergency management strategy to handle asthma episodes in the workplace. It provides background knowledge of the triggers, signs, symptoms and effects of asthma as well as emergency management.
Course Topics
The following topics are covered in the online course:
- What is Asthma?
- Develop and document risk assessment and emergency response strategies
- Conduct a comprehensive asthma trigger audit
- Conduct a workplace asthma risk assessment
- Asthma risk minimisation strategies
- Asthma emergency management strategies
- Develop and document an asthma communication plan
- Asthma emergency management plan review
- Handling a workplace asthma emergency
- Assess the emergency situation
- Assess the asthma severity
- First aid for asthma episode or emergency
- Communicating details of asthma emergency incidents
- Evaluate responses to asthma emergencies
Pre-requisites
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
Assessment
This course includes a number of small quizzes throughout, designed to confirm your knowledge of the topics covered.
Course Duration
This course includes text, images, videos, and quizzes.
It is expected that it will take you approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes to complete this course.
