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HLTAID012 – Childcare setting First Aid
HLTAID012 is a nationally recognised first aid course designed for educators and childcare professionals. The course covers essential first aid skills for responding to injuries, illnesses, medical emergencies, asthma, anaphylaxis, and other situations involving infants and children, including CPR and AED use.
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HLTAID012 – Childcare Setting First Aid is a nationally recognised childcare first aid course Australia designed to prepare educators and care professionals to respond confidently to common injuries and life-threatening emergencies. This practical childcare first aid training covers DRSABCD, CPR, choking, asthma, anaphylaxis, injuries, and emergency response in childcare settings.
What You'll Learn
- Apply the DRSABCD childcare emergency response process when assessing and responding to a casualty.
- Perform CPR safely for infants, children, and adults and understand appropriate AED use during emergencies.
- Recognise and respond to choking, asthma, anaphylaxis, allergic reactions, bleeding, burns, fractures, and other common childhood injuries.
- Demonstrate practical childcare first aid training skills appropriate for daycare, preschool, kindergarten, school, and other education and care environments.
- Follow emergency first aid childcare procedures, including seeking assistance, providing appropriate care, managing incidents, and completing relevant incident reports.
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Training Overview
- First aid requirements for services under the Education and Care Services National Law
- Infant and child anatomy and physiology and implications for first aid
- Assessing the casualty
- What to do in an emergency and how to call for help
- DRSABCD emergency response approach
- Unconscious casualty
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) principles
- Choking and spinal injuries
- Allergic reactions and asthma
- Anaphylaxis
- Diabetes
- Stroke
- Shock
- Drug overdoses and poisoning
- Stress management and available support following an emergency, including the psychological impact on children
- CPR techniques for infants, children, and adults
- AED use and defibrillation
- Choking response techniques
- Assessing and responding to an unconscious casualty
- Bandages and slings
- Managing fractures and dislocations
- External bleeding control
- Burns, bites, and stings
- Management of sprains, strains, and bruising
- Basic response to head and eye injuries
- Demonstration of appropriate first aid procedures for asthma and anaphylaxis
- Practising the DRSABCD response sequence
- Infant and child CPR practice
- AED operation practice
- Choking response practice
- Applying bandages and slings
- Managing simulated bleeding and burns
- Supporting casualties with suspected fractures, sprains, and dislocations
- Responding to simulated asthma and anaphylaxis emergencies
- Practising casualty assessment and emergency communication
- Applying first aid procedures in daycare, preschool, kindergarten, and classroom scenarios
- Discussing common first aid emergencies in childcare settings
- Reviewing asthma, anaphylaxis, choking, CPR, and AED responses
- Discussing abdominal and chest injuries
- Reviewing spinal, head, and eye injuries
- Discussing diabetes, stroke, shock, poisoning, and drug overdoses
- Safety issues at home and work
- Traffic accident response considerations
- Psychological impact of emergencies on children and stress management for responders
- Incident reporting and documentation
- Questions, scenario-based discussion, and clarification of emergency response procedures
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Frequently Asked Questions
HLTAID012 is a nationally recognised first aid course for education and care settings in Australia. It covers CPR, choking, asthma, anaphylaxis, injuries and emergency response for children and adults.
HLTAID012 is suitable for childcare educators, preschool and kindergarten staff, OSHC workers, family day care educators and school support staff across Australia.
A childcare first aid course covers DRSABCD, CPR, AED use, choking, asthma, anaphylaxis, bleeding, burns, fractures and other common emergencies in Australian childcare settings.
Yes. HLTAID012 practical childcare first aid training includes demonstrations and hands-on practice of CPR, AED use, choking response and other emergency first aid skills.
Childcare first aid training helps educators develop practical skills to respond to injuries and medical emergencies while supporting children safely in Australian education and care settings.