Practical, scenario-based training that helps non-clinical teams recognise when somebody is becoming genuinely unwell, take useful first actions and escalate before delay changes the outcome.
Breathing, responsiveness, colour, circulation, temperature, fluid balance and change over time can be more useful than a dramatic symptom in isolation.
Clear formats, clear prices and a practical progression — from essential response skills to retreat-sensitive judgement and team leadership.
Best for smaller retreat teams needing a practical emergency foundation.
Best for established teams wanting deeper judgement, retreat-sensitive scenarios and repeated reassessment.
Best for core retreat teams who need to coordinate the response, allocate roles and lead under pressure.
Best for distributed teams needing a shared recognition and escalation framework.
Choose by the capability you need, not simply by duration. FieldSafe can advise if you are unsure.
| Programme | FieldSafe Essentials | Retreat Response | FieldSafe Ready | Annual Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Small teams needing the practical foundation | Established teams needing retreat-sensitive judgement | Core teams expected to lead and coordinate | Existing FieldSafe-trained teams needing a structured yearly refresh |
| Format | Approx. 3.5 hours · face-to-face | Approx. 6 hours · face-to-face | Full day + venue review | Approx. 90 minutes · live online; in-person by quote |
| Group size | Up to 10 | Up to 12 | Up to 12 | Up to 15 online |
| Deterioration recognition | Core | Deeper + trajectory | Deeper + leadership application | Refresh + incident learning |
| Altered state vs deterioration | Introduced | Major focus | Major focus + response decisions | Refresh + scenario decisions |
| CPR / AED | Hands-on | Hands-on | Hands-on + team coordination | Awareness / decision refresh online; practical skills require face-to-face renewal |
| Response leadership | Basic roles | Team roles + handover | Core programme feature | Roles + escalation refresh |
| Venue readiness review | — | — | Included | By scope / in-person only |
| Written Emergency Readiness Plan | — | — | Included | Review existing plan where applicable |
| Price | £395 + travel | £695 + travel | £895 + travel | From £225 / team |
The centre of the course is not simply recognising cardiac arrest. It is recognising that somebody is becoming unwell while there is still time to change what happens next.
The progression is about capability, not simply a longer syllabus. FieldSafe moves from individual response, to retreat-sensitive judgement, to coordinated team leadership and venue readiness.
Know what to do. Recognise a serious problem, take useful first actions, call for help and use CPR/AED skills when they are needed.
Know what you’re looking at. Reassess trajectory and ask the FieldSafe question: is this an altered state, or medical deterioration?
Know how to lead. Build a core response team, allocate roles, coordinate escalation and make the system around the casualty work.
FieldSafe Ready is the premium leadership-and-readiness offer for core retreat teams. It is not about turning laypeople into clinicians. It is about creating a calm, coordinated response when several things need to happen at once.
Most retreat organisations already have a few people who are reliably present and naturally become the people others turn to. FieldSafe helps make those roles explicit, practised and useful.
The response lead keeps the picture together: what changed, what has been done, whether it is working, what is happening next and what could cause delay.
Build the team. Build the kit. Build the plan. Practise the response.
Leadership is easier when access, equipment, communications and handover information have already been thought through. FieldSafe Ready links the people to the system around them.
FieldSafe covers the core first-aid subjects people expect, then adds retreat-specific judgement and operational context that standard workplace syllabuses are not designed around. The exact depth varies by programme; the course page and quotation confirm what is included.
Scene safety, danger checks, personal safety, infection prevention, PPE, consent, boundaries, calling for help and working within training and competence.
Breathing and work of breathing, colour, responsiveness, circulation, capillary refill, temperature, fluid balance and trajectory — recognising change before collapse.
Fasting, ceremony, breathwork, purging, heat, exhaustion and altered consciousness can change presentation. Teams learn when the retreat explanation no longer safely fits.
Airway positioning, recovery position, choking, asthma / breathing difficulty, signs of hypoxia, respiratory arrest and urgent escalation.
Recognising chest pain that needs urgent help, cardiac arrest, high-quality basic life support and confident use of an AED.
Seizure recognition and post-seizure care, syncope / collapse, head injury, concussion warning signs and altered responsiveness.
Recognising progression, airway/breathing/circulation red flags, adrenaline auto-injector familiarity, positioning, reassessment and urgent escalation.
Recognising low blood glucose and deterioration, appropriate oral glucose when a conscious person can swallow safely, and knowing when emergency help is needed.
Minor wound care, significant bleeding control, shock recognition and the importance of reassessment after an apparently controlled injury.
Falls, falls from height, suspected fracture, soft-tissue injury, burns/scalds and eye injury — including when not to simply “walk it off”.
Heat illness, hypothermia, dehydration, environmental exposure, water incidents / drowning and how remote access changes escalation thresholds.
Infection-control basics, common viral illness, vomiting and diarrhoea, food-borne illness, dehydration and recognising when apparently routine illness is becoming unsafe.
First-response priorities after suspected poisoning or toxic ingestion, preserving safety and escalating without attempting lay diagnosis.
Emergency numbers, credible care, transport / transfer, heat, altitude, hydration, travel context and thresholds for ending an activity.
Who calls, who observes, who retrieves equipment, who meets responders, what information matters and how to give a concise structured handover.
FieldSafe recommends a simple maintenance rhythm for its specialist programmes. This is a FieldSafe training standard, not a claim that the annual update renews a separate regulated workplace qualification.
Start with the appropriate face-to-face FieldSafe programme so practical skills, scenarios and the real venue context can be assessed and taught properly.
About every 12 months, revisit deterioration, altered-state judgement, incidents, team roles and relevant changes in guidance. Live online from £225 per team, with in-person updates available by quote.
At least every three years, return to a full practical FieldSafe course so hands-on response skills, CPR/AED and team performance are properly refreshed rather than maintained by video call alone.
Face-to-face sessions are deliberately practical. The point is usable confidence, not a vague memory of somebody else demonstrating a skill.
Respiratory rate, responsiveness, colour, capillary refill and fluid history in context.
Anaphylaxis, choking, recovery positioning, chest compressions and AED use.
Team roles, emergency calls, access, handover and deciding when “watch and wait” is no longer safe.
FieldSafe is not trying to replace EFAW or FAW. It is specialist retreat and event emergency-response training designed to sit alongside any recognised workplace first-aid provision your organisation’s needs assessment requires.
Records the programme completed, date, duration and the learning outcomes and subject areas covered so organisers have a clear training record.
FieldSafe adds deterioration recognition, altered-state judgement, team roles, escalation and operational readiness to the organisation’s wider first-aid provision.
If your needs assessment requires EFAW or FAW, book that recognised qualification separately. FieldSafe does not describe itself as EFAW, FAW, awarding-body accredited or HSE-approved.
Tell us about the setting and the people you need to prepare. FieldSafe will recommend the most appropriate format.
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