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WSIB approved first aid training, CPR, AED, and Basic life support (health care provider) certification courses in Barrie Ontario, Innisfil Ontario, and Midhurst Ontario. All certifications are from The Canadian Red Cross Society and is valid for 3 years from the date of your CPR certification.
Our Barrie / Innisfil Ontario first aid and CPR certification academy is located at Ferris Lane Community Church: 49 Ferris Lane in Downtown Barrie, Ontario. This convenient location is along highway 400. We are proud to offer this location for residents in the Barrie & Innisfl Ontario region who are seeking WSIB approved first aid, CPR and AED training by the largest first aid provider in Canada, The Canadian Red Cross Society!
All of our instructors are certified by the Canadian Red Cross Society. Expect nothing short of impecabble and knowledgeable training.
All of our first aid and CPR courses are approved by the Workplace Safety Insurance Board of Ontario. Rest assured, your certification will be recognized anywhere in Canada!
We offer the best prices guaranteed! If you see another similar offering elsewhere by another Canadian Red Cross training partner, we will gladly match any rate!
Our core first aid courses can be done either in a class, or a blended learning environment of on-line + in-class. Call us know to know more about this offering!
Your certificate will expire three years from the date of certification. Please note that your employer and / or educational institution may require you to re-certify sooner.
We are proactive training facility to host plexiglass barrier seating, industrial sanitation using ULV foggers, and temperature control checks for all participants upon entry. Learn CPR and stay safe during the pandemic!
Here at The Academy for First Aid and Safety, we offer a wide variety of WSIB approved first aid, CPR, AED, and BLS (formerly healthcare provider) certification courses for employment and / or educational purposes. All of our classes are taught by certified Canadian Red Cross instructors with years of experience in the field of instruction! Don’t accept anything less than the best of the best when it comes to high quality, interactive, and fun first aid and CPR training!
An automated external defibrillator (or AED) can greatly increases the chances of survival during a cardiac arrest well over 50% if applied as soon as possible. For every minute that passes by, the chances of survival drop 10-12%. All students will learn how to properly set up and deliver a high voltage shock to the body in order to restore a normal heart beat rhythm in which restores blood flow to the brain.
When you attend our first aid CPR AED certification classes in Barrie / Innisfil Ontario, you will become trained to confidently use an automated external defibrillator!
Our CPR level C certification training in Barrie / Innisfil Ontario is under the guidelines of The Canadian Red Cross. We are proud Canadian Red Cross training partners!
History of The Red Cross Society: Learn about The Red Cross's rich history, their seven fundamental principals, and what they do for Canadians as well as for countries all around the world!
Preparing to respond all starts at home! From understanding the importance of having a first aid kit at home, to protecting yourself legally, and from disease transmission and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)!
A primary survey is one of the most crucial surveys one must understand in order to deploy first aid in the most timely fashion possible! Furthermore, understanding how to perform injury checks are crucial for critical care while paramedics are being dispatched to the scene.
Participants will learn to differentiate between a partial and complete blockage, and learn why it happens, how to prevent choking, and most of all, the crucial skills on how to clear the blockage.
Did you know that the number one cause of death in Canada is NOT Covid-19, but heart attack and stroke? Almost 70,000 Canadians die each year due to coronary artery disease. Learn how to prevent, detect, and care for heart attacks and strokes. Participants will also learn how to stop deadly bleeding through the use of medical bandages and proper use of a tourniquet.
Lunch.
This chapter is the most intensive chapter out of the entire class! Everyone will learn how to perform CPR on a patient that is not breathing, which manually pumps oxygen rich blood to the brain in the event of a cardiac arrest. Are you confident to use an automated external defibrillator to save someone's life? You definitely will after you take this class! AED use can look intimidating at first, but in the end you will realize how easy it was all along! In fact, an AED can increase a person's chances of survival well past 50%, which depends on one metric: TIME!
As of March 2021, naloxone training is now included!
Your quiz contains 11 questions and is multiple choice. A minimum of 75% is required to successfully pass the written quiz component of this class.
Emergency first aid and CPR is wildly popular, especially for security guard training and licensing for your Ontario security guard license. Emergency first aid and CPR covers eight core chapters of first aid, CPR and AED use!
History of The Red Cross Society: Learn about The Red Cross's rich history, their seven fundamental principals, and what they do for Canadians as well as for countries all around the world!
Preparing to respond all starts at home! From understanding the importance of having a first aid kit at home, to protecting yourself legally, and from disease transmission and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)!
A primary survey is one of the most crucial surveys one must understand in order to deploy first aid in the most timely fashion possible! Furthermore, understanding how to perform injury checks are crucial for critical care while paramedics are being dispatched to the scene.
Participants will learn to differentiate between a partial and complete blockage, and learn why it happens, how to prevent choking, and most of all, the crucial skills on how to clear the blockage.
Did you know that the number one cause of death in Canada is NOT Covid-19, but heart attack and stroke? Almost 70,000 Canadians die each year due to coronary artery disease. Learn how to prevent, detect, and care for heart attacks and strokes. Participants will also learn how to stop deadly bleeding through the use of medical bandages and proper use of a tourniquet.
Lunch.
This chapter is the most intensive chapter out of the entire class! Everyone will learn how to perform CPR on a patient that is not breathing, which manually pumps oxygen rich blood to the brain in the event of a cardiac arrest. Are you confident to use an automated external defibrillator to save someone's life? You definitely will after you take this class! AED use can look intimidating at first, but in the end you will realize how easy it was all along! In fact, an AED can increase a person's chances of survival well past 50%, which depends on one metric: TIME!
Participants will learn how to care for three life threatening breathing emergencies: Hyperventilation, asthma, and anaphylaxis. Generally, when it comes to asthma and anaphylaxis, you don't have much time to remedy the situation. Your main objective is to administer life threatening medication to open the airway and to make breathing much easier, through thorough use of an asthma inhaler and an epinephrine auto injector. As of March 2021, naloxone training is now included!
Participants will learn how to care for various wounds. Wounds include burns from heat, burns from chemicals, burns from electricity, bruises, knocked out teeth, impaled objects, eye injuries, chest injuries, crush injuries, etc.
Your quiz contains 20 questions and is multiple choice. A minimum of 75% is required to successfully pass the written quiz component of this class.
Standard first aid and CPR certification in Barrie / Innisfil Ontario is the highest level of first aid training and CPR training one can receive. It totals thirteen comprehensive chapters of first aid, CPR, AED training for your Standard first aid certification:
History of The Red Cross Society: Learn about The Red Cross's rich history, their seven fundamental principals, and what they do for Canadians as well as for countries all around the world!
Break
Staying still is the number one priority when it comes to a head, neck, and spine injury. Participants will also learn "the approach" which is a strategic approach to help someone in the event of such injury. This chapter also goes more in depth, touching base on concussions to the head: How to identify one and how to care for a concussion.
Participants will learn how to immobilize an injury, such as a sprain, strain, dislocation, and/or fracture through the use of splints and slings. We are proud to still teach this chapter during Covid-19 through the use of artificial full body mannequins, as opposed to contact with another participant. Stay safe, and still learn these crucial hands on skills!
Do you know the crucial steps on how to care for someone suffering from a diabetic emergency? Or how about a seizure? Would you know how to substitute glucose tablets if these tablets were not available? You will when you learn chapter 11!
Heat exhaustion / stroke, and frostbite / hypothermia is the main focus for this chapter. Learn how to bring the temperature of the body back to normal levels trough a series of crucial protocols.
There are many ways someone can get poisoned: Through inhaled to a snake or spider bite, the scenarios can get quite scary! We are proud to now offer opioid awareness training, which teaches participants how to detect an opioid overdose, and how to administer naloxone.
Your quiz contains 30 questions and is multiple choice. A minimum of 75% is required to successfully pass the written quiz component of this class.
