Provide First Aid in an education and care setting

About this qualification

HLTAID012 is first aid for infants and children. The register describes it as applying to “a range of workers within an education and care setting”, including early childhood workers and educators in outside school hours care and vacation programs.

It is the one named in legislation. The register states the unit “may contribute towards approved first aid, asthma and anaphylaxis training under the Education and Care Services National Law and the Education and Care Services National Regulations”. No other unit in the family carries that.

Assessment is built around child and infant casualties: adult, child and infant manikins, emergency action plans, an adrenaline auto-injector training device, AED training devices, and a placebo bronchodilator.

If you work in childcare, outside school hours care or a school, this is almost certainly the code your employer means — not HLTAID011.

Roles it maps to

What the unit covers, per the national register.

Commonly held together

First aid is a family of five units. This is the education and care one, and it is the version national law points at.

1. Single unit · CPR onlyHLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
2. Single unitHLTAID010 Provide basic emergency life support
3. Single unit · the workplace standardHLTAID011 Provide First Aid
4. Single unit · childcare and schools · you are hereHLTAID012 Provide First Aid in an education and care setting
5. Single unit · advancedHLTAID015 Provide advanced resuscitation and oxygen therapy
6. Single unit · construction sitesCPCWHS1001 White Card — site entry