First aid

You should have a first-aid kit at home and also learn how to do first aid through an accredited trainer.

First-aid training

St John provides accredited first-aid training.

To book training online go to the St John NT website.

St John also provides first-aid kits, defibrillators and specialist first-aid equipment.

About first-aid training at St John

St John first-aid training courses cover the following subject areas: 

• first aid
• advanced first aid
• cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• advanced resuscitation
• occupational first-aid skill set
• first aid at remote stations
• basic emergency life support
• emergency management of asthma
• caring for kids
• junior first-aid program
• first at the scene
• industrial medic response program
• management of anaphylaxis
• low voltage electric shock rescue.

What to keep in your first-aid kit

If you want to stock your own first-aid kit, it should contain the items listed below.

Bandages, dressings and bindings

• 1 packet of plastic strips
• 1 roll of non-allergenic tape
• 2 sterile eye pads
• 4 triangular bandages
• 1 conforming gauze bandage (10cm)
• 1 conforming gauze bandage (7.5cm)
• 1 conforming gauze bandage (5cm)
• 1 hospital crepe bandage (10cm)
• 1 sterile combine dressing (9cm x 10cm)
• 1 sterile combine dressing (20cm x 20cm)
• 1 medium wound dressing (No. 14)
• 2 non-adhesive dressings (5cm x 7.5cm)
• 1 non-adhesive dressing (10cm x 7.5cm)
• 2 square gauze swabs
• 5 alcohol swabs
• 1 wound-closure steri-strip

Tools

• 1 pair stainless steel scissors
• 1 pair of forceps
• 1 stainless steel splinter remover

Other essentials

• 1 pack (10 pairs) of latex gloves
• 1 resuscitation mask
• 2 bottles of eye irrigation (15 millilitres)
• 1 bottle of antiseptic cream (50g)
• 1 bottle of antiseptic solution (30 millilitres)
• 1 first-aid hints booklet.