This site takes one question at a time and answers it properly: is this training required by law, required by a regulation that names your sector, required by something you signed, or not required at all. Every answer carries the instrument it came from and the date it was last checked.
Where the honest answer is that nothing requires it, that is what the page says.
How every answer is labelled
The distinction does real work. A code of practice is admissible in proceedings and is worth following, but it is not the legislation, and being one first aider short of a suggested ratio is not the same thing as breaking the law. Knowing which of the three you are looking at changes what you do about it.
The rules this site follows
- Primary instruments first. Legislation, regulations, regulator publications and expert guidelines, in that order of preference over anybody's summary of them
- Absence gets reported. Where a widely assumed requirement is not in the instrument, that is written down as a finding rather than quietly skipped
- Unverified means excluded. If a document could not be opened and read, no claim is made about it, and it goes on a published list of what is deliberately absent
- Nothing is gated. No sign-up, no download wall, no email capture standing between you and an answer
- No clinical guidance. Nothing here tells anyone how to treat anyone. ANZCOR publishes that free of charge and does it better
- Not legal advice. This describes what public instruments say. It cannot tell you how they apply to your facts, and where a question turns on that, the pages say so and stop
What is covered
One section, and that is deliberate
A site that promised breadth and delivered thin pages across a dozen topics would be worth less than one section done properly. Further sections will be added when the instruments behind them have actually been read, and not before.
What is not covered yet
SKLD Training delivers well beyond first aid, including basic life support, advanced resuscitation and oxygen therapy, asthma and anaphylaxis management, and low voltage rescue, and it supplies defibrillators. None of those obligations are covered on this site yet.
Their absence here is not a finding that no requirement exists. It means nobody has opened the governing documents and read them, so nothing is claimed. The same applies to school staff requirements set by state education departments, occupational licensing conditions, and requirements attached to specific funding programs.
The full list of what is deliberately absent, and why, is on the sources page.
Who publishes this
Who Needs Training is published by SKLD Training, which sells the training this site discusses, on behalf of Allens Training Pty Ltd, RTO 90909. That is disclosed in the masthead of every page rather than buried.
The awkward part of that arrangement is that a training provider has an incentive to tell you that you need training. Several pages here do the opposite. One tells a large number of volunteer-run clubs that work health and safety law does not reach them at all. Another tells aged care and NDIS providers that no standard names first aid. A third publishes the resuscitation council's position that the annual refresher SKLD sells is, on its own, probably not enough to keep skills sharp.
Those are here because they are what the instruments say. A reference containing only the convenient half would not be worth publishing and would not be worth citing. Read the full disclosure.
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Section one last checked 9 September 2026.