Port Lincoln Training is a training partner of Registered Training Organisation Healthcorp Pty Limited (RTO# 91222, registered 2006). It is in partnership with Healthcorp that Port Lincoln Training is able to provide Nationally Recognised Courses, for the courses described below. 22
Healthcorp Pty Limited is registered nationally by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA). All of our First Aid courses are nationally recognised. See more about our RTO
Each component of our first aid training courses conform to Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines and policy statements.
The new course codes are as follows:
HLTAID001 Provide CPR (previously described as CPR update, or CPR refresher)
HLTAID002 Provide Basic Emergency Life Support (known as BELS)
HLTAID003 Provide First Aid (previously Senior First Aid and then Apply First Aid)
HLTAID004 Provide Emergency First Aid Response in Education and Care Setting
HLTAID007 Provide Advanced Resuscitation
(After that there are HLTAID005 for Provide First Aid for Remote Situations and HLTAID006 Provide Advanced First Aid. Port Lincoln Training does not currently provide these two advanced courses)
Childcare workers
The Australian Children’s Education and Care Services National Law ACECQA outlines the regulations regarding “most long day care, family day care, outside hours care and preschools/kindergartens in Australia”
Family day care – regulation 136(3)
The approved provider of a family day care service must ensure that each family day care educator and family day care educator assistant engaged by or registered with the service:
(a) holds a current approved first aid qualification; and
(b) has undertaken current approved anaphylaxis management training; and
(c) has undertaken current approved emergency asthma management training.
Each family day care services staff member, including educator assistants, must hold all three qualifications.
– See more HERE
Centre-based services – regulation 136(1)
The approved provider of a centre-based service must ensure that the following persons are in attendance at any place where children are being educated and cared for by the service, and immediately available in an emergency, at all times that children are being educated and cared for by the service:
(a) at least one educator who holds a current approved first aid qualification
(b) at least one educator who has undertaken current approved anaphylaxis management training
(c) at least one educator who has undertaken current approved emergency asthma management training.
Services must have staff with current approved qualifications on duty at all times and immediately available in an emergency. One staff member may hold one or more of the qualifications.
– See more HERE
Teachers
If you are a teacher the DECD minimum requirements are that you have BELS, or preferably Provide First Aid, and they encourage you to undertake Provide Emergency Response in Education and Care Setting. You can read DECD minimum requirements here.
Premises on school site – regulation 136(2) (from ACECQA)
If children are being educated and cared for at service premises on the site of a school, suitably qualified staff must be in attendance at the school site and immediately available in an emergency.
Services must have staff with current approved qualifications on duty at all times and immediately available in an emergency. One staff member may hold one or more of the qualifications – See more HERE
