Manual handling training in healthcare addresses a significant issue: manual handling accounts for nearly a third of workplace injuries in Australia. Safe Work Australia reports manual handling injuries cost Australian businesses over $28 billion every year.
Unintentional injuries are responsible for substantial healthcare costs, decreased quality of life, and loss of many lives.
Working in the hospitality industry presents many challenges, so it is no surprise there are a lot of workplace first aid incidents.
Every year, Australian businesses report hundreds of thousands of serious workplace injuries and illness cases that affect employees, their families and the broader community. In most cases, these are accidents and injuries that could have been avoided with first aid preparedness.
First aid for bleeding can be a simple life skill, or it can be what prevents an emergency from becoming a catastrophe. Bleeding injuries range from minor nuisances like cuts, scrapes, and grazes, to open wounds where the bleeding is non-stop. Both require bleeding first aid knowledge, but the techniques are different.
There aren’t too many people left who are worried about performing CPR during Covid-19. The pandemic might be ongoing and still a concern, but if you see someone collapse in public you’re more likely to panic about not knowing CPR than you are to worry about performing CPR on someone who might be sick.
Group first aid training is the perfect way to get your whole workplace team trained up and compliant at the same time. But it’s not just for people who work together, there are so many other groups who can stand to benefit from a group first aid training course.
Australia was declared free of measles in 2014 thanks to widespread vaccination coverage. However, measles is still common in many countries, and recent measles cases have primarily been linked to international travellers. In 2024 a measles outbreak in Canada caused the county to lose its measles-free status. Measles elimination isn’t absolute, and the low number of measles cases in Australia doesn’t mean a resurgence of measles is impossible. In fact, a regional measles outbreak in WA in 2025 had more than 75 cases of measles reported.
