Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare equipment for first aid response in remote or isolated areas.
- Evaluate information about remote or isolated destinations and identify potential injuries and illnesses requiring extended management.
- Select first aid equipment and resources to deal with a range of potential incidents, according to organisational emergency response and first aid procedures.
- Select communication equipment to allow for emergency response at remote or isolated destination.
- Complete pre-departure safety and serviceability checks on equipment.
- Assess the situation.
- Identify hazards promptly, assess risks and manage to avoid injury to self and others.
- Assess condition of casualty or casualties to determine extent of first aid response.
- Determine need for emergency services or medical assistance and relay initial and concise information to base and authorities, as required.
- Triage when multiple casualties are involved, engage others to assist, and provide instructions.
- Manage casualty or casualties.
- Direct other first aiders and participants to provide or assist with first aid, and manage use of resources.
- Provide first aid using available equipment and resources, and improvise use of other resources as required.
- Monitor and respond to casualty's condition in accordance with effective first aid principles.
- Explain, to casualty, nature of injury or illness, first aid management and provide reassurance.
- Assess and ensure casualty comfort through questioning and monitoring, and use of shelter and available resources.
- Communicate calmly with casualty using a style to match level of consciousness.
- Monitor and document casualty's condition over time to assist on-going management.
- Assess need to evacuate casualty, ability to transport to medical assistance or need for external assistance.
- Liaise with external services to manage casualty or casualties.
- Establish communication with emergency services and medical assistance.
- Relay accurate factual information about casualty’s injury or illness and condition, including any casualty is able to provide.
- Communicate essential details of first aid provided, and follow instructions to adjust or use additional first aid.
- Administer medication according to medical instructions.
- Monitor and report ongoing casualty condition and seek ongoing medical input, as required.
- Coordinate evacuation and first aid activities until assistance arrives.
- Determine need, in consultation with external services, to evacuate casualty.
- Provide accurate information about location of incident, number of casualties, their condition and their position to enable deployment of appropriate resources.
- Engage others present to assist with ongoing first aid and management of incident circumstances.
- Continue to respond to and monitor the condition of casualty and provide ongoing reassurance until assistance arrives.
- On approach, assist emergency services to locate the site of the incident.
- Follow instructions and provide assistance to emergency services personnel during evacuation.
- Debrief, document and evaluate the incident.
- Participate in incident management de-brief and identify future response improvements.
- Evaluate compliance with organisational emergency response policies and procedures, their suitability and any need to amend.
- Evaluate need for self and others to access support services to assist with post-incident stress.
- Complete required incident reports according to organisational procedures.