First Aid and Emergency Procedures
Alarm routes, first-aid arrangements, emergency information, scene safety, evacuation and competent assistance.
How to prepare for a CITB Specialist test
Lock in common site safety first, confirm the exact route with the card scheme, then add the relevant specialist hazards and competence boundaries.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Workers should know how to raise the alarm, contact first aid, evacuate or assemble, and report missing people.
Exam cue: Recognise the emergency, stop exposing more people and use the site's alarm route.
Concept 2
Scene safety comes before helping a casualty where electricity, collapse, fire, traffic, fumes or other hazards remain.
Exam cue: Know the appointed first-aid arrangements before an incident occurs.
Concept 3
Only give first aid or rescue within training and the site's plan; summon competent emergency help without delay.
Exam cue: Follow instructions from trained responders and do not re-enter until authorised.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Entering a dangerous area impulsively to reach a casualty.
Guardrail: Do not mix specialist routes or replace an engineered, competent control with a briefing, warning sign or PPE alone.
Moving an injured person without an immediate danger or competent direction.
Guardrail: Do not mix specialist routes or replace an engineered, competent control with a briefing, warning sign or PPE alone.
Assuming calling emergency services replaces the site's own alarm and access arrangements.
Guardrail: Do not mix specialist routes or replace an engineered, competent control with a briefing, warning sign or PPE alone.
Memory anchors
Danger Before Aid
Check that helping will not create another casualty.
Alarm, Aid, Access
Raise the alarm, summon first aid and help responders reach the right place.
Know Before Need
Learn alarms, exits, assembly points and first-aid contacts during induction.
Within Your Training
Do not improvise treatment or rescue beyond your competence.
Account at Assembly
Report to the designated point so missing people can be identified.
No Unauthorised Return
Re-enter only when the person controlling the emergency says it is safe.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
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Continue learning
Move forward only after this module is stable.
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