Duration
8.5 Hours
Delivery
Face-to-Face and Blended
Cost
From $155pp
Overview
The course from Safety Corp provides training for managing first aid emergencies in educational and care settings, focusing on infants, children, and adults. Participants learn essential skills such as CPR, asthma and anaphylaxis management, injury response, and documentation requirements. The course offers flexible learning options, including online theory and face-to-face practical sessions, with standard and fast-tracked delivery formats.
If you are unsure whether this course is right for you, please contact us for further information.
Course Outline
- Perform CPR for infants, children, and adults following current guidelines
- Identify and respond to asthma and anaphylaxis emergencies
- Assess and manage injuries and medical emergencies
- Demonstrate effective communication during an emergency
- Safely administer medications as needed
- Complete accurate documentation for first aid incidents
- Recognise signs of shock, bleeding, and fractures
- Provide effective handovers to emergency services
- Understand legal and ethical responsibilities in first aid
- Maintain personal safety while administering first aid
- Use first aid equipment effectively
- Apply infection control practices during emergency care
Pre-course theory may be completed online prior to attending the face to face practical, which reduces the face-to-face delivery time. Consideration is given to previous skills, knowledge and experience for students refreshing an existing or equivalent certificate.
Standard – Up to 2.5 hours pre-course learning + 6.5 hours completed face to face
Express – Up to 2.5 hours pre-course learning + 1 hour completed face to face
Note: The durations outlined above are the minimum course durations required to deliver the training product. Face-to-face training may be delivered over a longer duration, where required, depending on cohort needs and the delivery environment *
Express course options are only available to students who have previously completed the course they are enrolling in and are undertaking the training as a refresher
Students are required to demonstrate a sound level of proficiency in spoken and written English, which will be tested in a Language, Literacy, Numeracy, and Digital Skills Assessment.
Learners undertaking refresher training must have previously completed the HLTAID012 Provide first aid in an education and care setting.
Learners will be required to provide a copy of their expiring Statement of Attainment (or digital certificate that can be validated) on the day of their face-to-face course.
This course requires participants to respond to range of first aid emergency situations. This includes the requirement for all participants to perform at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on an adult, child, infant resuscitation manikin placed on the floor.
This course is recommended to be updated every three years, with the HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation statement of attainment to be updated annually.
Further information including fees, payments, support, complaints and appeals can be found in the Student Handbook.
