This program meets industry requirements for Occupational First Aid. A highly practical and interactive program, it provides the knowledge and skills for Medical Service Responders who require the ability to respond, assess, manage, extricate and transport persons involved in traumatic and life threatening incidents in rural and remote situations.
This program is suitable for people working in industry who may be required to provide, coordinate and manage a first aid response across a range of complex situations, including community and workplace settings.
Facilitated by a team of highly skilled and experienced operational subject matter experts and assessors focusing on outcome-based results and timely casualty care.
Dependent on UoC and electives chosen participants will learn real skills for work and skills for life including:
PRE-REQUISITES
All prerequisites are covered within the program, however assessed prior to the required UoC. This qualification can be customised and contextualised utilising alternate electives in line with packaging rules for specific groups. This qualification is subsidised by the NSW Government utilising Smart & Skilled funding. Concessions or partial/full exemptions may apply for eligible participants.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
The following program outline will be customised and contextualised to meet the chosen electives for the program, client and workplace environment. Theory and Practical Scenarios may include:
- Minimum Equipment – PPE, First Aid Equipment
- Communications
- Radios and Phones
- First Arrival Incident Management
- Human Behaviour / Coping in emergencies
- Scene Approach & Situational Awareness
- Primary Survey, Rapid Trauma Sweep and Treatment
- Vital Signs, secondary Survey and recording
- Specialised splints, slings and comfort
- Casualty stabilisation & comfort
- Improvised casualty management techniques
- Casualty packaging and transportation
- Bleeding and Shock – wound packing & arterial bleeds
- Cleaning and Re-using medical equipment
- Taking appropriate precautions
- Triage principles, Oxygen usage
- Spinal Care & Management
- Remote and Extended Care
- Scene Preservation, Civil Disturbance
- Temperature Extremes
- Heat & Cold
- Participant medical presentations
- Advanced Resus, Defibrillation, 02, BVM, CPR,
- Scene Control and Team based Advanced Resus / CPR
- Crush Injuries
- Response to incidents (Burns)
- Vehicle Interaction and Entrapment
- Pain Management
- Responding to Multiple Casualties
- Deceased persons
- Equipment Refurbishment and more
NOTE: Although this program is highly practical, persons must demonstrate basic literacy and numeracy skills to accurately gather and convey incident information including completing casualty assessment cards.
Persons are required to be physically capable of performing at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on the floor to be assessed in this unit of competency.
