React Right is SSI's emergency first response programme: the one you take before Diver Stress and Rescue if your CPR card has expired, and the one non-divers can take without ever touching a scuba cylinder. PADI's parallel is Emergency First Response. Both teach first aid, CPR and how to stay useful when someone is hurt.
SSI built React Right as a flexible menu. You work through primary assessment, first aid, CPR and stabilization techniques, then add optional modules such as oxygen administration for diving emergencies and AED basics if your centre offers them. No diving is required. You can finish in a classroom, a community hall, or split between MySSI theory and a practical day with manikins.
Certification lasts 24 months for SSI prerequisite purposes. When it lapses, you refresh rather than guessing whether your rusty chest compressions still count. Most centres run the full package in eight to twelve hours. Expect to kneel on a mat and practise scenarios until your arms remember the rhythm. That is normal.
React Right is assessed through knowledge development and practical demonstration on manikins and scenarios.
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Find activitiesIt is SSI's emergency first response course covering primary assessment, first aid, CPR and optional oxygen and AED training. You learn to act as a first responder in medical emergencies similar to your training.
Divers take it before rescue courses. Non-divers take it for the same street-ready skills without any scuba involved.
No. React Right has no certification prerequisites and no in-water training. Boat crew, parents, teachers and office workers sit alongside divers in the same classroom.
If you are heading toward Diver Stress and Rescue, you will need valid React Right or equivalent when you certify.
SSI suggests eight to twelve hours. Many centres complete the core modules in one day. Oxygen and AED add time but are worth it for dive-focused students.
Evening courses split across two sessions suit people who cannot take a full Saturday.
Both teach CPR, first aid and emergency care for divers. Emergency First Response is the PADI-branded route. React Right is SSI's equivalent and prerequisite for SSI rescue training.
Many centres accept either agency's recent certificate for cross-over rescue courses. Leave a comment when you book with your existing card details.
Oxygen administration is an optional React Right module at many SSI centres. SSI Diver Stress and Rescue expects oxygen provider training within the prerequisite bundle.
Confirm the listing includes oxygen before you book if you need the full rescue prerequisite in one go.
SSI React Right qualifies you as a first responder for two years for prerequisite purposes. After that, take a refresher rather than assuming old skills still count.
Medical best practice evolves. Refreshing keeps compressions and protocols current.
Assessment is practical demonstration and knowledge checks through MySSI, not a formal school-style exam for most students.
Your instructor watches you work through CPR and first aid scenarios until performance meets SSI standards.
Comfortable clothes you can kneel in, water and a notebook if you like writing down acronyms. Centres supply manikins and training oxygen kits.
Leave jewellery that digs into your palms when practising compressions at home.
Yes. Many centres schedule React Right immediately before rescue training in the same week. You need valid first aid before rescue certification issues.
Bundle listings save diary time. Check whether both courses are included in the price.
Twelve years old for SSI React Right certification. Younger participants may join family-oriented first aid workshops at a centre's discretion but full certification follows SSI age rules.
Ask the centre if you are booking for a teenager.
adventuro lists SSI centres offering React Right in classrooms and dive-centre training rooms nationwide. Compare whether oxygen and AED modules are included.
Leave a comment when you book if you need the certificate for an upcoming rescue course with fixed dates.
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