Adapting to the HSE 2025 First Aid Guidelines:
How to meet the New Standard
The HSE 2025 First Aid at Work guidelines bring significant changes to workplace safety expectations across the UK. With a renewed focus on mental health, lone worker safety, catastrophic bleeding, and dynamic risk assessments, employers must now take a broader and more proactive approach to first aid provision.
What’s Changing in 2025 and how can DAC help?
The HSE’s revised guidance includes key updates that reflect modern workplace challenges:
First Aid isn’t just physical anymore, Mental Health Training is now essential and strongly recommended as part of a first aid needs assessments. The HSE expect employers to incorporate this into their risk assessments.
Our one day Level 2 course is well suited to most companies and is affordable. This course prepares staff to recognise early signs of mental ill health, start supportive conversations, and reduce stigma. It already fully aligns with the 2025 requirement for integrating mental health support into workplace first aid.
Lone workers, those working remotely on farms, in construction or in isolated settings, must have access to training that allows them to help themselves in emergencies. They must know time critical interventions like self applied tourniquets, bleeding control and managing trauma when no one else is around.
Catastrophic Bleeding Training is no longer optional in High Risk Workplaces.
Catastrophic bleed control must be considered in high risk industries (agriculture, construction, public spaces). From knife wounds to machinery accidents, our half day lone worker seriously injured training was written by our own MD andalready directly meets the new lone worker standards for 2025. The course prepares individuals to act fast using tourniquets, haemostatic dressings, and rapid trauma management.
Overall, employers must conduct dynamic, evolving first aid needs assessments, factoring in remote work, violence and sector specific hazards.
We’ve Been Training for Tomorrow’s Standards for Years
The HSE 2025 guidelines place a focus on trauma informed care, prevention and rapid emergency intervention. We have a number of courses which already cover this section from our one day major serious incident to our long first responder courses.
As an organisation we have completed hundreds of first aid needs assessments in environments across the world and many industries across the UK.
For us, its about giving the right people the best information and knowledge to prevent and intervene rapidly if required. We simply believe in a having a sensible conversation, if you don’t need a training course, we won’t recommend one!
Our MD has been quoted many times saying;
“You just need the right training and the right kit to the risk presented.”
These updates don’t just improve compliance, they save lives.
