Industrial Emergency Medical First Responder (IEMFR)
Learn to keep someone alive in the first critical minutes of an industrial medical emergency.
Start Course Now →When an injury or medical crisis happens on an industrial site, the minutes before the ambulance arrives decide the outcome. This 40-hour beginner course prepares you to act as a trained industrial first responder — assessing patients, managing airways and bleeding, and handling the hazards specific to industrial settings. It is built for workers, safety personnel, and site teams who may be first on the scene.
Walk out able to actually help.
Work through a structured primary survey to find and treat life threats in a set order.
Recognise cardiac arrest and deliver CPR and AED to current resuscitation standards.
Classify haemorrhage by urgency and apply the right control technique quickly.
Manage industrial-specific emergencies such as chemical exposure, electric shock, and crush syndrome.
Built around the moment it matters.
Course Introduction
Welcome and an overview of how the course is structured and what you will be able to do by the end.
The Industrial First Responder: Role, Legal Framework, and Safety
Your place in the emergency response team, the legal framework you work within, rescuer safety, and the industrial chain of survival.
Infection Control, Standard Precautions, and PPE
Standard precautions and the correct sequence for donning and doffing personal protective equipment.
Patient Assessment: Primary Survey (ABCDE)
The ABCDE framework, the AVPU consciousness scale, and a worksheet to guide a consistent assessment.
Airway Management and Ventilation
Manual airway techniques, airway adjuncts, oxygen delivery systems, and bag-valve mask ventilation.
Cardiac Arrest: CPR, AED, and Resuscitation
Recognising cardiac arrest, adult CPR to the ILCOR 2020 standard, and the sequence for using an AED.
Haemorrhage Control and Wound Management
Classifying bleeding by urgency and applying practical techniques to control it and manage wounds.
Traumatic Injuries: Musculoskeletal, Head, Spinal, and Chest
Spinal motion restriction and the recognition and management of chest injuries.
Burns and Blast Injuries
Assessing burns with the Rule of Nines and managing burn injuries on site.
Medical Emergencies
Cardiac chest pain using OPQRST, stroke recognition with FAST, and managing hypoglycaemia.
Industrial-Specific Emergencies
Chemical exposure and decontamination before contact, electric shock, crush syndrome, and heat emergencies.
Patient Packaging, Transport Preparation, and Handoff
Packaging priorities, selecting the right patient carry, and a clear SBAR handover to arriving medics.
Integrated Scenario-Based Assessment
Your responsibilities during a simulation and the pre-entry checklist that prepares you for it.
Appendices
Reference materials to support and revisit what you have learned.
Where this learning adds value.
Build practical capability you can apply immediately, and evidence of structured professional development.
Every programme sits on a pathway, so you can progress from foundation into the specialist streams your role or sector demands.
Contractors and suppliers are routinely asked to evidence trained personnel — structured training supports that case where the course is relevant.
Digital credentials can be independently verified online by employers and credential reviewers. Recognition requirements may vary by employer, jurisdiction, profession and certification type.
A certificate that carries weight.
Apexis Certificate of Completion
Issued by Apexis Risk Innovation Group on successful completion of the programme requirements. Where digital verification is enabled, employers can verify the credential record online.
Apexis Risk Innovation Group is an authorised TEEX Cooperative Learning Center. Selected Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) programmes delivered through Apexis are clearly identified by course name and code.
Who you learn it from matters.
Selected TEEX programmes are available through Apexis Risk Innovation Group, an authorised Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) Cooperative Learning Center, and are clearly identified by course name and code.
Programmes are designed by people who have done the job, around real workplace needs rather than textbook abstractions.
Content is contextualised to the operating environments our clients actually work in — energy, industrial, public safety and emergency response.
Every programme identifies who issues the credential, what it represents and how it can be verified.
Ready when you are.
- Self-paced online modules
- 40 hours of structured learning
- Scenario-based assessment
- Downloadable reference materials
- Patient assessment worksheets
- Certificate of completion