Learn how to recognise and respond to common childhood emergencies, including choking, breathing issues, injuries and more.
Build skills to respond to emergencies in aquatic environments, including drowning and marine-related injuries.
Develop a broad understanding of how to recognise and respond to a range of emergency situations, with practical skills you can apply in everyday life.
With more than 45 years of experience in aeromedical care, LifeFlight is at the forefront of emergency response. Our First Minutes Matter workshops are interactive and engaging, ensuring that in just a few hours, you gain a lifetime of skills. Your knowledge could save a loved one, a neighbour, or a stranger in their time of need.
Unfortunately not. Please bring a snack as we’re not always confident that there is food available to purchase near each workshop’s location.
Check your workshop registration in your account. Workshops can vary from 5.5 hours to two 3-hour sessions.
Just yourself, and anything you’d usually leave the house with!
If you’d like to bring a friend or family member, please email our team on firstminutesmatter.org.au prior to the workshop to ensure that there is capacity.
First Minutes Matter is not a registered First Aid Course. You will, however, receive a certification of participation upon successful completion of the course.
Zach’s right leg was amputated when he came off a motorcycle in 2017. Dozens of Toowoomba and Brisbane medical professionals kept Zach Nightingale alive, but it was the quick thinking of the first two people by his side that saved him.
“I think everyone should do a course like First Minutes Matter. It’s free. The only investment people need to make is their time. And I would have died at the scene if people didn’t know how to help me,” Zach Nightingale, past patient and First Minutes Matter Ambassador.
Undertaking courses like First Minutes Matter ensures you and your community have the confidence and the skills to be able to look after loved ones in critical situations, like Zach. Knowing what to do in those essential first minutes and having the support of trained individuals made all the difference on Zach's outcome and, ultimately, saved his life.
Can’t make it to our in-person workshop? No problem! LifeFlight offers an equally enriching online version of our First Minutes Matter program, allowing you to learn at your own pace.
