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First Aid for Disability Support Workers

HLTAID011 Provide First Aid (Disability/Aged Care)


Overview/Content
Premium Health's specialised first aid course focuses on equipping disability support workers delivering high intensity supports with the critical skills needed to manage a wide range of first aid emergencies, including choking, seizures, asthma and more.

This Premium Health course incorporates the unit HLTAID011 Provide first aid and offers practical learning using a range of emergency scenarios relevant to disability support workers including choking and seizure management for someone in a wheelchair.

Learning Objectives

  • Respond to an emergency situation

  • Apply appropriate first aid procedures

  • Communicate details of the incident

  • Review the incident



Delivery Mode
Premium Health offers a flexible delivery option for corporate/group training designed to minimise the time and backfill required for staff to attend training. Our blended option requires online pre-work prior to attending the practical assessment session.


  • 3 hours and 45 minutes face-to-face assessment and online e-Learning



Qualification Issued
HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
First Aid for Disability Support Workers

More About This Course
Our trainers know first aid and complex health needs of people with disability inside out. Every trainer is a qualified educator with nursing, paramedic or disability sector experience - there can be no better trainer than one who has 'hands-on' field experience. As a trusted professional, they will teach the "why" of first aid and are committed to your staff leaving your course with confidence and competence.

Premium Health believes every student should have their own manikin - this means there is no waiting around for "your turn". Learning is best remembered by "the doing", this means the more time you actively spend time on the manikin the greater the retention of the skill, so when you may need to recall how to do CPR, you are more able to recall and perform the skill.

Some of the topics covered in provide first aid are:

  • The DRSABCD action plan and responding to emergency situations

  • Managing unconscious casualties, infants, children and adults

  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), infants, children and adults

  • Choking management

  • Infection control

  • First aider responsibilities

  • Bleeding and shock

  • Seizure management

  • Anaphylaxis

  • Asthma

  • Fractures and soft tissue injuries

  • Burns, bites and stings

  • Poisoning

  • Minor wound management



Students attending the course will be required to demonstrate their physical ability to perform at least 2 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on an adult manikin placed on the floor. If you are unsure of your ability to demonstrate this requirement please contact us on 1300 721 292.



Premium Health are fantastic to deal with. The process of booking in training is easy and Premium Health have a range of health related training topics to choose from. The facilitators who deliver the training are knowledgeable, pleasant, professional and make the sessions interesting.

  • Katerina Formosa
  • Senior Services Manager
  • Estia Foundation of Australia
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  • Disability
  • First Aid
  • Health Professionals
  • High Intensity Support Skills
  • Mental Health
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