2026-Intermediate/Standard First Aid

Comprehensive two-day course offering first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Level C** skills for those who need training due to work requirements or who want more knowledge to respond to emergencies at home. Course meets legislation requirements for provincial/territorial worker safety and insurance boards and includes the latest first aid and CPR guidelines.

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Duration

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Course Run Times: 9:15am-4:15pm 

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Two Day In-Class Course :13–14 hours teaching time

 

Blended Standard First Aid:  8 hours online learning*, 7 hours teaching time

 

*Online learning time may vary depending on the learner

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Instructor

Red Cross First Aid Instructor 

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Completion

100% attendance and participation; 75% min. passing grade on a written, closed book knowledge evaluation; and adherence to the Fundamental Principles.

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Certification

3-year certification in 2026-Intermediate/Standard First Aid and CPR/AED Level C**.

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**Also offered with Level BLS

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Course Content

•          Land Acknowledgement

•         Safety Statement

•         The Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement 

•          The Red Cross (Our History, The Fundamental Principles, Red Cross Symbols, Who We Are)                                                                                                                                               

•        Responding to Emergencies (Preparing to Respond, Preparing for Emergencies at Home, Signs of an Emergency, Willingness to Act, Legal Issues Around First Aid, Good Samaritan Laws, Workplace First Aid, Getting Permission to Help, Duty to Report Child Abuse or Neglect, Responding to Disclosures of Violence, The Emergency Medical Services System,  Understanding Your Role as a First Aider, Understanding Your Role in the EMS System, Activating EMS, When to Call EMS/9-1-1, Poison Centres, Calling EMS/9-1-1 for a Child in Your Care, After an Emergency, Lowering the Risk of Infection, How to Prevent Diseases from Spreading, Personal Precautions, Equipment Precautions, Environmental Precautions)

•          Check, Call, Care (Check, Call, Care, Secondary Assessment, Shock, Providing First Aid for Someone with a Disability)

•          Choking (Partial Choking, Complete Choking, Responsive Adult or Child over 12 Months, Special Choking Circumstances, If You Are by Yourself and Choking, Choking Baby (Less Than 12 Months), Unresponsive Choking)

•          Circulation Emergencies (Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Attack, Angina, Stroke, Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), Life-Threatening Bleeding, Life-Threatening External Bleeding, Using a Tourniquet, Using Hemostatic Dressings, Life-Threatening Internal Bleeding)

•          CPR and AED  (Cardiac Arrest, Cardiac Arrest, Adult (After the Onset of Puberty), Cardiac Arrest, Child (1 Year to the Onset of Puberty), Cardiac Arrest, Baby (Less Than 12 Months),  Continue CPR Until, What to Do if the Rescue Breaths Don’t Go In, Compression-Only CPR, Maximizing CPR Efficiency, CPR Compression Depth for an Adult, CPR Compression Depth for a Child or Baby, Chest Compression Rates, Chest Recoil, Decreasing Compression Fraction (Off-Chest Time), Special Considerations, CPR for a Pregnant Person, Air in the Stomach, Vomiting, Mouth-to-Nose Breathing, External Defibrillation, Using an AED , Considerations for Safe and Effective AED Use, Medical Direction and AEDs, AED Maintenance, Two-Person CPR)

•          Breathing Emergencies (Respiratory Distress, Hyperventilation, Asthma, What to Do,  Using an Inhaler, Using an Inhaler with a Spacer, Allergic Reactions, Anaphylaxis)

•         Wound Care (Bandaging Guidelines, Triangular Bandages, Cuts and Scrapes (Minor Bleeding), Puncture Wounds, Scalp Injuries, Infection, Burns, Thermal Burns, Chemical Burns, Electrical Burns, Radiation Burns, Special Considerations When Caring for Burns, Bruises, Splinters, Nosebleeds, Foreign Objects in the Nose, Knocked-Out Teeth, Eye Injuries, Flash Eye, Ear Injuries, Impaled Objects, Amputations, Crush Injuries, Chest Injuries, Penetrating Chest Injuries, Blunt Chest Injuries, Abdominal Wounds Blast Injuries)

•          Head, Neck, Spine, and Pelvis Injuries (The Neck and Spine, The Brain, The Pelvis, Head, Neck, Spine, or Pelvis Injury Concussion, Shaken Baby Syndrome)

•          Bone, Muscle, and Joint Injuries (Splinting Guidelines)

•          Sudden Medical Emergencies (Fainting, Diabetic Emergencies, Using a Glucagon Kit for a Diabetic Emergency, Seizure Guidelines Febrile Seizures, Mental Health Emergency)

•          Environmental Illness (How Body Temperature is Controlled, Heat-Related Illness, Heat Cramps, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Stroke, Cold-Related Illness, Frostbite, Hypothermia, Freezing of Skin to Metal Objects, Snow Blindness, Trench Foot (Immersion Foot), Drowning, Responsive Drowning Person, Unresponsive Drowning Person)

•          Poisons  (Identifying Hazardous Materials, Swallowed Poisons, Inhaled Poisons, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Absorbed Poisons, Poison Ivy, Sumac, and Oak, Giant Hogweed and Wild Parsnip, Injected Poisons, Poisoning Caused by Alcohol or Drugs, Drug Poisoning, Opioid Poisoning, Alcohol Poisoning, Bites and Stings, Animal Bites, Rabies, Insect Stings, Tick Bites, Lyme Disease, Snakebites, Spider Bites, Black Widow Spiders, Stings from Marine

 

Includes any other content required by specific legislation

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Participant Materials​

• First Aid & CPR (eBook)

• Comprehensive Guide to First Aid & CPR (eBook)

• Standard First Aid – Online (Blended only)

• Standard First Aid certificate (digital certificate issued upon successful completion)

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Course Cost

$145 (taxes included)