About the Skills Programme

The Occupational Skills Programme Basic Emergency First Aid Responder (SP-230801) is a QCTO skills programme at NQF Level 2 (2 credits, 20 notional hours; curriculum 900232-000-00-00). It prepares you to assess an affected person for life-threatening conditions and deal with them immediately, and to provide basic first aid care within the scope of a basic responder until the person is handed over to the next level of care.

Almost everything that decides whether a casualty survives happens in the first few minutes, before anybody qualified arrives — and almost none of it is complicated. This course teaches the small number of simple things that matter, and the limits that keep you and the casualty safe.

What you will learn

• The purpose of first aid, the ABCs, your scope of practice, consent, confidentiality and your own safety
• Scene safety, primary and secondary assessment, the emergency call, reassessment, handover, records and clean-up
• The respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous, musculoskeletal and integumentary systems — and what failure looks like
• CPR and the AED, choking, the recovery position, bleeding, shock, fractures, burns, heart attack and stroke, heat and cold, poisoning, bites and stings
• What you will be observed doing in the practical module

Who should enrol?

• Employees appointed, or to be appointed, as workplace first aiders
• Security, hospitality, retail, transport and construction staff
• Anyone who wants to be able to help in an emergency

Entry requirement: open access. You need to be able to kneel beside a casualty and perform chest compressions.

Certificates

Tonex Certificate of Completion: pass the post-course assessment with 70% or more. This is a Tonex certificate; it carries no NQF credits and is not a first aid qualification.

QCTO Skills Programme certificate (2 credits, NQF Level 2): also requires the nine workbook activities, the Knowledge Summative Assessment, the observed practical activities, and the supervised Final Integrated Supervised Assessment (FISA), which has a written part and a practical part. Tonex, as the QCTO-accredited provider, conducts the FISA and submits learner results to the QCTO for approval for certification. These assessments are in the separate course Practical Assessment and FISA – Basic Emergency First Aid Responder SP.