Programme:
08:30 Arrival for refreshments and registration
09:00 Course commences
10:45 Tea/coffee break
11:00 Theoretical course continues
12:45 Lunch Break (available to purchase or you can bring your own)
14:00 Venomous snake handling practical
15:00 Certificates to be issued
Course Content:
- Snake awareness, snake behaviour, snake biology, snake identification
- What to do in snake encounters
- Breaking down myths, superstition & folk stories
- First aid for snakebite, medical treatment & antivenom
- Scorpions & spiders of Southern Africa
- First Aid for scorpion sting & spider bite
- Venomous snake handling – working with four species & using the safest protocols



