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New blog: Blossoming into Safety: Preparing Your First Aid Kit for Spring, shown over a bed of pink tulips and bluebells

Blossoming into Safety: Preparing Your First Ai...

The first warm weekend of spring tends to find Australian families with three things in common. The camping gear comes out of the shed, the car gets loaded up, and...

Blossoming into Safety: Preparing Your First Ai...

The first warm weekend of spring tends to find Australian families with three things in common. The camping gear comes out of the shed, the car gets loaded up, and...

New blog post: The Hot Topic: Navigating the Heat Wave, shown over a walker with a red backpack and drink bottle on an outback track

The Hot Topic: Navigating the Heat Wave - Preve...

A child at a remote campsite can go from grumpy and slow to confused and unresponsive in under two hours. By midafternoon in arid Australia, the inside of a closed...

The Hot Topic: Navigating the Heat Wave - Preve...

A child at a remote campsite can go from grumpy and slow to confused and unresponsive in under two hours. By midafternoon in arid Australia, the inside of a closed...

New blog: Taming the Twists and Breaks While Hiking, shown over hikers in tall grass and a shaded forest track

Taming the Twists and Breaks: First Aid for Spr...

Hiking injuries in Australia lean heavily toward the lower limb. A large share are either soft-tissue sprains or, less commonly, fractures. On a quiet trail, often out of phone range,...

Taming the Twists and Breaks: First Aid for Spr...

Hiking injuries in Australia lean heavily toward the lower limb. A large share are either soft-tissue sprains or, less commonly, fractures. On a quiet trail, often out of phone range,...

New blog: Hear from Hiker John, shown over polaroid hiking photos on an outback gorge at sunset

Beyond the Trail: Mastering Outdoor Safety for ...

Twist an ankle three hours from the carpark and a familiar walk is suddenly a serious problem. A front rolls in faster than the forecast said. The phone sits in...

Beyond the Trail: Mastering Outdoor Safety for ...

Twist an ankle three hours from the carpark and a familiar walk is suddenly a serious problem. A front rolls in faster than the forecast said. The phone sits in...

New blog: Burns and Scalds: Australian First Aid That Actually Works, shown over burn dressings and shears on a timber bench

Burns and Scalds: Australian First Aid That Act...

Most Australians think burns and scalds are a summer problem. The data says otherwise. According to AIHW 2023-24 figures, burn hospitalisations peak in September (514 cases) and May (495), with...

Burns and Scalds: Australian First Aid That Act...

Most Australians think burns and scalds are a summer problem. The data says otherwise. According to AIHW 2023-24 figures, burn hospitalisations peak in September (514 cases) and May (495), with...

Take the sting out of getting bitten with our range of soothing products, shown beside sprays, creams, dressings and cold packs

Take the sting out of getting bitten

Australia has a serious cast of biting and stinging animals. Brown snakes, tiger snakes, redbacks, funnel-webs, paralysis ticks, box jellyfish on the tropical coast, blue-ringed octopuses in southern tidal pools....

Take the sting out of getting bitten

Australia has a serious cast of biting and stinging animals. Brown snakes, tiger snakes, redbacks, funnel-webs, paralysis ticks, box jellyfish on the tropical coast, blue-ringed octopuses in southern tidal pools....