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a person who does not work for you to administer first aid to your workers provided they have been trained to do so. These may be first aiders of other businesses who share your workplace or other persons who are qualified to administer first aid. This will involve consulting, co-operating and co-ordinating the access arrangements with the other persons and ensuring that access is available at the times when your workers carry out work (e.g. taking into account any shift work).

Types of first aid training
First aiders should hold nationally recognised Statement/s of Attainment issued by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) for the nationally endorsed first aid unit/s of competency.
Provide First Aid – provides competencies required to recognise and respond to common life-threatening injuries or illnesses, including life-support using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and to manage the casualty and incident until the arrival of medical or other assistance.

In low risk workplaces, first aiders are sufficiently trained if they can perform CPR and treat minor illnesses and injuries.

Provide Advanced First Aid and Provide Advanced First Aid Response – provides additional competencies required to apply advanced first aid procedures. This type of training is suitable for some high risk workplaces.
Manage First Aid Services and Resources – provides competencies required to apply advanced first aid procedures and to manage a first aid room.
Provide First Aid in Remote Situations – provides the competencies required to administer first aid in a remote and/or isolated situation, including preparing for aero-medical evacuation. This type
of training is suitable for high risk workplaces that are likely to have a major delay in accessing emergency services.

Additional training for first aiders
First aiders should attend training on a regular basis to refresh their first aid knowledge and
skills and to confirm their competence to provide first aid. Refresher training in CPR should
be undertaken annually and first aid qualifications should be renewed every three years.

First aiders may also need to undertake additional first aid training to respond to specific situations at their workplace. For example, where workers have severe allergies, first aiders should be trained to respond to anaphylaxis if this topic has not been covered in previous first aid training.

Number of trained first aiders
The following ratios are recommended:
    * low risk workplaces – one first aider for every 50 workers
    * high risk workplaces – one first aider for every 25 workers.
The number and type of trained first aiders can be further refined by following the five-step guide below:

Step 1:

Identify the maximum number of workers at the workplace at any one time.

Step 2:

Consider the nature of the work being carried out at the workplace and