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Central West First Aid Training Specialists is located in Bathurst. Delivered by current AHPRA registered on road paramedics.

We provide accredited first aid and CPR training to individuals and businesses and service Bathurst and the surrounding areas.

06/11/2026

Snake season is well and truly here, so it was time to get on top of the yard and knock down the long grass.

Aaron was on mower duty. The two littlest ones decided they were the supervisors and weren’t getting off. Honestly, it turned a chore into the best part of the weekend. Not all work, no play around here.

A tidy yard won’t stop snakes completely, but it does take away a lot of the places they like to hide. Clear the long grass, move woodpiles and rubbish away from the house, and have a look around before the kids head out to play.

And if someone does get bitten, here’s what I want you to remember. Call 000, keep the person as still and calm as you can, and get a pressure immobilisation bandage on firmly, starting just above the fingers or toes and working all the way up the limb. Don’t wash the bite and don’t try to catch the snake. Keeping them still and bandaged is what buys time until we get there.

Be safe out there, but have fun while you're at it.

04/11/2026

We’ve just spent a few days on site at a mine in the Illawarra, with 65 participants through training across the week.

This one was a bit special, because we also had a new trainer joining us for her induction. She’s another local paramedic, and it was really lovely to have her in the room, getting hands on and seeing how we do things. Honestly, it reminded me why I love this so much. Watching someone new pick up on the little things we care about, like explaining the why behind every skill and making sure people walk out feeling confident in their decisions, was a really good feeling.

Growing our team is something we don’t take lightly. We want the people training your teams to be clinicians who know what it’s like on road and understand the environments you work in. Having another paramedic on board means we can bring more of that to every workplace we train, wherever they are, and we’re really looking forward to supporting her as she finds her feet with us.

Thanks to the site for having us, and to all 65 participants for getting stuck in.

02/11/2026

A great group through our Occupational First Aid course this week.

OFA is built for the people who’ll be responsible for first aid in their workplace, so we run it as hands on as we possibly can. The team spent a lot of the course working with real first aid equipment. Partly that’s to practise their skills, but it’s also because managing that equipment is a big part of the role. Knowing what should be in your kits, checking it, maintaining it and making sure it’s ready when someone needs it is just as important as knowing how to use it.

They also worked through risk assessment simulations that our Ops Manager, Britt, built from scratch for this course. They’re based on the kinds of situations workplaces genuinely deal with, so the team gets to practise thinking like a first aid officer, not just responding like one.

And you’ll notice there’s not a sheet of paper in sight. We’ve gone completely digital, and everyone works off a tablet from start to finish. Honestly, it’s one of the things we get the most feedback on. It keeps the day simple, and people can focus on what actually matters: the skills, the decisions and the why behind them.

Thanks to this team for getting stuck in. Your workplace is in good hands.

30/10/2026

Halloween prep, or an average day in the office for our Ops Manager? I’ll let you decide.

This is Britt, wearing some of the moulage we use in our training. It’s not just for fun (although it is a bit fun). When someone walks into a scenario and sees a wound that actually looks like a wound, they respond the way they would on the day. That’s the bit we’re really trying to train.

Happy Halloween.

28/10/2026

Recently, we had one of those incredibly busy days where the number 11 seemed to take charge!

We had three courses running across the day, with 11 participants at every stop.

First up was a public course with 11 participants completing training across multiple accreditations. From there, we headed onsite to Housing Plus for a blended delivery with another 11 staff members. And to round out the day, we delivered training for Trident Care, an NDIS provider, with a final group of 11!

That's 33 participants across three courses in one very full day.

Days like these certainly keep us on our toes, but they're also a pretty special reminder of how far we've come.

If you'd told me when we first started this business that one day we'd be running three courses in a single day, across public and onsite training, supporting organisations like Housing Plus and Trident Care, I honestly would've been blown away.

We're incredibly grateful for the businesses, organisations and individuals who continue to trust us with their first aid training. It's a privilege to be this busy doing something we genuinely love.

And apparently, 11 is our lucky number!

26/10/2026

Every now and then, a review stops us in our tracks.

We’re lucky. We get a lot of lovely feedback from the people we train, and all of it reminds us why we do what we do. But this one was different.

For someone to take the time to sit down and write something like this meant a great deal to all of us, and it didn’t feel right to just read it and move on.

Fair warning, the screenshot cuts off halfway through. Turns out there’s a limit to how much kindness fits on one phone screen.

So, thank you. This one is going to stay with us for a long time.

23/10/2026

Days off with the kids are my favourite days, by far.

On a recent one, my daughter asked if we could go to the duck park. I’ll be honest, it wasn’t my first choice. But those days are about them, not me, so off to the duck park we went.

The second we arrived, all three of them took off toward the ducks. Watching my toddler run flat out after his sisters reminded me exactly why, whenever I can, I let the kids decide what we do.

Happy to report the duck park was a hit all round. Even for me.

21/10/2026

Audit day.

As paramedics, we check our gear at the start of every shift. That habit has followed us into the business.

Every so often, both trailers get emptied out and every piece of training equipment gets cleaned, checked and tested. Manikins, AED trainers, bandages, the lot. It gets used by a lot of hands across a lot of courses, so it cops a fair hammering.

If something is showing wear, isn’t working the way it should, or just isn’t up to the standard we’d want to learn on ourselves, it gets replaced.

This round we’ve replaced and upgraded a fair bit, and added some new gear that has recently come onto the market. When something better is released, we’d rather have it in your hands on course day than keep making do with the old version.

It’s not the most exciting day on the calendar, but it’s one of the more important ones.

Clean, checked, restocked and ready to go.

19/10/2026

We have invested so much into our training equipment to make sure you get the absolute most out of every single course, including our Resusci Anne manikins with live Quality CPR feedback.

This tech measures your performance in real time and gives you an overall score out of 100. It tracks your compression depth and recoil, hand position, compression-to-ventilation ratios (aiming for that 30:2), the exact volume of air in millilitres making it into the lungs using a bag-valve mask compared to your target volume, and so much more.

It is an incredible amount of data that is so interesting to look at, highly hands-on, and something our groups always find incredibly fun to use. It takes the guesswork out of CPR and turns it into a genuine skill you can measure and refine.

If you are due to refresh your CPR or first aid, check out our calendar or get in touch with our team to book a spot.

16/10/2026

Recently, my husband and I headed out to the rodeo with some friends for a great night out. Everything was going perfectly well until half-time, when suddenly we found ourselves on the kiss cam.

Now, as an avid no-PDA-er, publicly kissing my husband in front of a large audience was not exactly something sitting high on my bucket list.

But I’m also not one to let the team, or the community down. So when the kiss cam calls, apparently you kiss. And kiss, we did.

I thought that was the end of it and we could all move on with our lives, but shortly afterwards, I received a message from my daughter’s friend’s mum:

“Was that you on the kiss cam?”

Yes, yes it was.

At least we provided some half-time entertainment for the crowd!

Address

132 Piper Street
Bathurst, NSW
2795

Telephone

+61437437833

Website

https://www.centralwestfirstaidtraining.com.au/

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