Foundations of Workplace First Aid
What First Aid Is and Key Definitions
Your Role and the 3 Priorities of First Aid
Scene Safety and Getting Help
Quiz 1 Foundations and Priorities of First Aid
Signs, Symptoms, and the SAMPLE Check
Age Groups in First Aid and CPR
Quiz 2 Patient Assessment and Age Groups
Legal and Workplace Responsibilities
Quiz 3 Legal and Workplace Responsibilities
What This Session Prepares You To Do
1. Communicable Disease and Infection Control
2. Communicable Diseases
3. How Diseases Enter the Body
4. Universal Precautions for Rescuers
5. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
6. Disease Transmission and Risk Situations
Quiz Disease Transmission and Personal Protection
7. How to Remove Gloves Safely
8. Bio Tips for Personal Safety
9. Safety Considerations During First Aid
10. Exposure Alert - What To Do
11. Disinfecting Equipment
Quiz Exposure, Cleanup, and Disinfection
12. Hepatitis B
13. Hepatitis C
14. HIV and AIDS
15. COVID-19
16. Workplace Hazards for First Aiders
17. Actions to Control or Minimize Risk
18. WHMIS and Safety Data Sheets
19. Occupational Health and Safety and Provincial Requirements
20. Clean Up and Disinfection
Quiz Workplace Safety Systems and Standards
1. Casualty Management (Overview)
2. Emergency Scene Management
3. Scene Survey
4. Activating EMS and the Role of the Dispatcher
5. EMCAP - Your Scene Safety Checklist
Session 3 - Quiz 1
6. Principles of Communication
7. Communication With Others at the Scene
8. Mechanism of Injury
9. Putting Mechanism of Injury Into Practice
10. Suspected Head or Spinal Injury
11. Primary Survey
12. Rapid Body Check
13. Care of the Responsive Casualty
14. Care of the Unresponsive Casualty
Session 3 - Quiz 2
15. Secondary Survey
Steps of the Secondary Survey
17. Medical History Using SAMPLE
18. Vital Signs
19. AVPU Scale
20. Level of Consciousness in More Detail
21. Breathing, Pulse, and Skin
22. Head to Toe Body Check
23. Treating the Unresponsive Casualty
24. Putting It All Together
Session 3 Quiz 3
1. CPR and Cardiovascular Emergencies.
2. Key Terms and What’s at Stake.
3. CPR Facts and Why Seconds Matter.
4. The Adult Chain of Survival.
5. EMS and the 911 Dispatcher.
Quiz 1 Session 4
6. Anatomy of the Chest and Safe Hand Placement.
7. The Circulatory System (What CPR Is Supporting).
8. The Respiratory System (What Rescue Breaths Support).
9.CPR Basics and Agonal Breathing.
Quiz 2 Session 4
10. Steps for High-Quality Adult CPR (Single Rescuer).
11. Ventilations and Safe Alternatives.
12. Two-Rescuer CPR (Adult and Child).
13. Compression-Only CPR (Hands-Only CPR).
14. When to Stop CPR.
15. Heart Attack vs Angina vs Cardiac Arrest.
16. Signs and Symptoms of Heart Attack or Angina.
17. First Aid Treatment for Heart Attack and Angina.
18. Stroke and TIA (FAST).
19. First Aid Treatment for Stroke.
20. Child and Infant CPR (Key Differences).
21. Complications of Rescue Breathing (Gastric Distention and Vomiting).
Quiz 3 Session 4
1. Defibrillation (AED Use).
2. Defibrillation and Public Access Defibrillation (PAD).
3. Electrical Activity of the Heart.
4. Heart Rhythms and Dysrhythmias.
5. Heart Rhythms Relevant to AED Use.
6. AED Basic Protocols.
7. Pad Placement on an Adult.
8. Shock Advised Protocol.
9. No Shock Advised Protocol.
10. Special Circumstances - Environment and Surfaces.
11. Special Circumstances — Devices and Medications.
12. Special Circumstances - Hypothermia, Pregnancy, Oxygen, and Flammables.
13. Maintenance Considerations for AEDs.
Quiz 1 Session 5
1. Airway Obstruction (Choking).
2. Airway Obstruction Overview and Why It Matters.
3. Signs of Choking (Partial vs Complete Obstruction).
4. Common Causes and Risk Factors.
5. Prevention of Choking.
6. Responsive Adult Choking (Back Blows and Abdominal Thrusts).
Quiz 1 Lesson 6
7.Adult Choking Becomes Unresponsive (You Witness the Collapse).
8.Adult Found Unresponsive (Possible Choking).
9. Finger Sweep (When It Is Appropriate).
10. Recovery Position and Airway Protection.
11. Steps for the Recovery Position.
Quiz 2 Lesson 6
12. Self-Rescue Techniques for Choking.
13. Wheelchair Considerations for Choking.
14. Responsive Child Choking.
15. Child Choking Becomes Unresponsive.
16. Child Found Unresponsive (Possible Obstruction).
17. Responsive Infant Choking.
18. Infant Choking Becomes Unresponsive.
19. Infant Found Unresponsive (Possible Obstruction).
Quiz 3 Lesson 6
1.Wounds and Bleeding.
2. Wounds and Bleeding Overview.
3. How the Body Limits Blood Loss.
4. Dressings and Bandages (What They Are).
5. Types of Dressings.
6. Guidelines for Applying Dressings.
7. Bandages (What They Are).
8. Common Uses for Bandages.
9. Guidelines for Bandaging and CSM Checks.
Quiz 1 Session 7
10. Wounds (Open vs Closed).
11. Classification of Wounds (Part 1).
12. Classification of Wounds (Part 2).
13. Bleeding (External vs Internal).
14 Minor Wounds (Basic Bleeding Control).
15. Minor Wound Care Steps.
16. Distal Circulation Check (Capillary Refill).
Quiz 2 Session 7
17. Severe Bleeding Priorities (Preview).
18. Pressure Bandages (Preview).
19. Tourniquets (When Direct Pressure Isn’t Enough).
20. Tourniquet Quality and Placement Rules.
21. Tourniquet Checklist (Fast and Safe).
22. Hemostatic Dressings.
23. Open Chest Wounds.
24. Head Injuries (Bump on the Head).
25. Ear Injuries.
26. Embedded Objects (Do Not Remove).
27. Embedded Objects Treatment (Stabilise and Protect).
28. Impaled Objects (Special Rule).
29. Amputation (Priorities).
30. Amputation Treatment and Care of Amputated Tissue.
31. Mouth Injuries.
32. Mouth Injuries Treatment.
33. Nosebleeds.
34. Animal and Human Bites (General Considerations).
35. Animal and Human Bites Treatment.
36. Bee Stings and Insect Bites (General).
37. Bee Stings and Insect Bites Treatment.
38: Snake Bites (Ontario Context).
39: Snake Bites Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment.
40. Leeches (Signs, Symptoms, and Treatment).
41. Jellyfish (Freshwater vs Coastal, and Stings).
42. Ticks (Blacklegged Ticks and Lyme Disease Risk).
43. Internal Bleeding (Hidden Danger).
44. Internal Bleeding Signs, Symptoms, and Care.
45. Abdominal Injuries (Closed and Open).
46. Abdominal Injury Treatment.
Quiz 3 Lesson 7
