Mr. Tony Coffey is a first aid specialist working in Sydney, Australia. He is in charge of first-aid expertise for inner-city, coastal areas, and 2 major hospitals in Sydney.
He has been directly involved in first aid and coastal rescue and training in first aid and rescue since 1991 as a professional rescue specialist for the past 10 years and he is also a volunteer. lifeguard over the past 20 years. During the time, he has provided many first aid training, assessment and work in management positions of Surf Lifesaving NSW and Australian Lifesaving Academy.
Mr. Tony has provided professional first aid training since 1998. He also design and deliver first aid courses that are customised for each industry, working environment and cultural group since 2003.
Tony is a highly regarded first aid trainer and has been invited as a speaker for many Australian training institutions. He helps learners to deeply memorize first aid operations with an interesting teaching style and practical experience gained from many years of performing their own first aid and rescue work. He is also the author of many books and first aid training textbooks that are popular in Australia and New Zealand.
Since 2014, Mr. Tony Coffey and Ms. Trang Jena Nguyen founded the not-for-profit project Survival Skills Vietnam that belongs to Centre for Community Health Research and Support (CCHS) with the goal to reduce the very high preventable deaths and injuries in Vietnam via first aid education. Since 2018, the Survival Skills Vietnam project has been transformed into a SSVN Survival Skills Social Enterprise with Mr. Tony Coffey acting as a technical consultant.
