RYA First Aid

Our one-day course covers all the usual first aid subjects, but from a boating perspective. It is aimed at anyone who wish to take out their family and friends, goes afloat, whether on inland waters, rivers, estuaries or on cross channel passages.

In a medical emergency a little first aid knowledge and immediate action can save lives, especially in remote locations. This one-day course is designed to provide a working knowledge of for the range of first aid situations one may encounter on a yacht at sea.

It fulfils the requirements for:

• first aid training for vessels working up to area Category 2 under the Maritime and Coastguard Agency Codes of Practice for Small Vessels Operated Commercially;
• first aid training needed by offshore racers subject to World Sailing's Offshore Special Regulation OSR 6.05.2;
• the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations, 1981 for the purposes of Emergency First Aid at Work.