UQ Skills

Program details: Provide First Aid in remote or isolated site

This comprehensive training program is designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and practical skills necessary to administer critical first aid in remote or isolated locations.

You'll learn to effectively respond to medical and traumatic emergencies in environments where immediate professional medical help may be limited or delayed.

This course not only emphasises the fundamental principles of first aid but also addresses specific strategies for improvising with limited resources, managing prolonged emergency situations, and effectively coordinating with external medical support.

You'll develop the confidence and competence required to handle a wide range of medical emergencies where prompt and effective first aid can be a matter of life or death.

This nationally accredited course covers how to:

  • respond to an emergency situation, apply correct first aid procedures and coordinate evacuations
  • conduct secondary assessments and look for vital signs
  • prepare equipment and perform risk assessments based on terrain/activity
  • perform resuscitation procedures, including defibrillator use
  • communicate details and review incidents
  • recognise signs and symptoms of life threatening bleeds, and how to manage them with tourniquets and haemostatic dressings
  • understand guidelines, workplace code of practice, legislation, duty of care and first aider responsibilities.

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How you'll learn

We use the latest equipment from industry to empower you to be confident in saving lives. Our friendly and professional trainers will assist you and ensure you have the skills to pass.

This program is delivered through a blended learning model:

  • 12 hours of online study: learn at your own pace through easy-to-understand content broken down into relevant modules
  • 2 days of hands-on in-person workshops with your trainer to practise skills and undergo scenario assessments.

Varied delivery modes, such as full in-person workshops or assessment only, are available for high schools and other stakeholder organisations. Contact us for details.

Assessment

You must complete the online coursework and pass the quizzes at least 72 hours prior to the practical workshop.

Practical training dates

Workshops are run in 2-day blocks on the following dates:

  • 10–11 December
  • 9–10 January

Location

At UQ Gatton campus only.

This program can be run at locations around Australia on request. Contact us for details. Locations require minimum numbers to go ahead.

What our students say

The two-day remote first aid training was incredibly thorough and interesting. A day of theory provided us with all the base knowledge and strategies to apply first aid, and a day of working through real-world scenarios really helped each of us understand how we assess a situation and apply these strategies under time pressure. I would really recommend this course for anyone who does field work.
– Angela

To enrol in this course, you must have the physical capacity to:

  • perform up to 4 minutes of uninterrupted CPR on a floor
  • walk a kilometre outdoors while wearing a light backpack.

Please wear SunSmart clothing and appropriate footwear, and bring a water bottle and some light snacks. There are water stations across Gatton campus to refill your drink bottle.

We recommend being at least 16 years of age to participate in this course.

All UQ Skills programs require access to a computer with a Windows operating system, up-to-date versions of Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Reader, and a reliable internet connection.

Create your USI

You must provide a Unique Student Identifier (USI) before we can accept your enrolment.

Resources

2025 UQ Skills Student Handbook (PDF, 2.5 MB) (includes student support and guidance on fees, withdrawal and other policy information).

Full fee: $440
UQ staff fee: $420

This course meets the nominated workplace first aider requirements under the Safe Work Australia First Aid Code of Practice.

The Code of Practice recommends you undertake refresher training in CPR annually and first aid qualifications every 3 years. The HLTAID013 course is to be undertaken every 3 years.