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Impact of First Aid Training

Impact of First Aid Training

​The Impact of First Aid Training: Empowering Everyday Heroes The impact of first aid training continued to resonate throughout the world, as communities recognised the significance of preparedness. Ordinary individuals are empowered to become everyday heroes,...

Dawn Ferrier

Dawn Ferrier

Dawn Ferrier When Dawn Ferrier founded TalkSmart Training back in 2017, her dream was to make quality first aid training more accessible to rural and regional communities. A country girl herself, she wanted to create an army of life savers in the bush, where access to...

Drug Overdose

Drug Overdose

Drug Overdose There have been many occasions especially with young people that when one of their groups has overdosed on drugs and they have not called for the paramedics because they thought that they would get into trouble because the police would also be called....

Why is practical first aid training so important for you?

Why is practical first aid training so important for you?

Why is practical first aid training so important for you? To answer that question, here are two questions to be answered. What makes a great first aider?B. How does a first aider gain the confidence to assist the sick or injured? The answer is simple. Great practical...

Snake Bites

Snake Bites

Snake Bites Raising community awareness about prevention of snakebites is the most effective strategy for reducing snakebite morbidity and mortality. As they say – prevention is better that cure but having first aid knowledge if a person is bitten by a snake is...

Chest Pain

Chest Pain

Chest Pain Why do people ignore chest pain symptoms when it’s a possible heart attack? In the news recently, a number of high powered people have possibly ignored the symptoms of a heart attack and died. We also see this from the general population and is a common...

Actual CPR

Actual CPR

Actual CPR or Movie CPR In today’s world there are two types of CPR. There is a actual cardiac arrest event that first aiders face and movie CPR. Movie CPR only causes confusion on your view of CPR. In a cardiac arrest situation, what you are effectively trying to...

New first aid units released

New first aid units released

NEW FIRST AID UNITS RELEASED On occasions, changes to training package products will occur.  When a training package is revised and is superseded by a replacement version, the new version is published, and all information can be located on the National Register...

How long does a first aid certificate last

How long does a first aid certificate last

People ask lots of questions about first aid courses and first aid certificates.  First aiders should hold nationally recognised Statement/s of Attainment issued by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) for the nationally endorsed first aid unit of competency.  At...