Pediatric First Aid and Early Childhood Safety
Build the confidence to act calmly when a child needs help — and to prevent harm before it happens.
Start Course Now →This intermediate course is for anyone responsible for young children — early years practitioners, childminders, nursery staff and parents — who want sound judgement as well as practical skills. Across eleven modules you develop how to recognise a pediatric emergency, respond and escalate appropriately, and shape safer everyday environments. It suits learners who already have some grounding and want to deepen their decision-making.
Walk out able to actually help.
Spot the early signs of a pediatric emergency and assess a situation quickly and systematically.
Take the right first-response steps for airway, breathing, choking and life-threatening emergencies.
Know when and how to escalate, and how to monitor a child while help is on the way.
Identify hazards and reduce the risk of injury in early childhood settings.
Built around the moment it matters.
Course Introduction
Welcome and an overview of how the course is structured and what to expect.
Foundations of Pediatric First Aid, Safety and Emergency Response
The core principles and concepts that underpin every topic that follows.
Recognising and Assessing Pediatric Emergencies
How to read a situation, assess a child and judge the severity of what you are seeing.
Airway, Breathing and Choking Emergencies
Managing airway, breathing difficulties and choking in infants and children.
Pediatric CPR, AED and Life-Threatening Emergencies
Responding to the most serious emergencies, including CPR and use of an AED.
Bleeding, Wounds, Burns and Traumatic Injuries
First-response care for bleeding, wounds, burns and traumatic injuries.
Common Pediatric Medical Emergencies
Recognising and responding to the medical emergencies you are most likely to meet.
Poisoning, Environmental and Exposure Emergencies
Handling poisoning, environmental hazards and exposure-related incidents.
Early Childhood Safety, Hazard Identification and Injury Prevention
Spotting hazards and putting measures in place to prevent injury before it occurs.
Safe Early Childhood Environments and Emergency Preparedness
Designing safer environments and preparing so you are ready when an emergency arises.
Integrated Pediatric First Aid and Safety Assessment
A final applied assessment that brings the whole course together in practice.
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
On finishing the course and the final assessment you earn a certificate of completion delivered to TEEX (Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service) standards.
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.
- Eleven self-paced online modules
- Around 7 hours of learning
- Knowledge checks in each module
- An integrated final assessment
- Certificate of completion