Benefits of Providing First Aid and CPR Training to Employees

If you’ve ever been in a medical emergency, you must know how stressful it is when you or another human being are in need of aid, and have to wait for someone to arrive and provide help. The arrival of a paramedic team may take a long time depending on traffic and availability of ambulance crews, and if the situation is desperate, a life may be risked by the wait.

The proximity of a person who got first aid and cpr training can save that life. There are many life-threatening situations such as cardiac arrest and other emergencies where seconds may make the difference between life and death. It is a skill that you get and really hope you don’t need, but when you need it – you better hope you have it.

Among the situations where it may be most needed is the workplace. As a company that provides first aid training in Mississauga and the surrounding area, we know the statistical data about work related injuries, and how just many of those could have been helped by having your employees trained in first aid.

Corporate First Aid Training – Benefits and Considerations

Most workplaces have a high concentration of hazards and people. A combination that increases the risk of serious damage, should something happen. Electrical appliances, specialized machinery, elevators, high density offices and other factors enhance this risk a great deal.

You may need to practice first aid in any manner of emergency, ranging from fires and electrocution damage, to “natural” failures of physical faculties, such as a heart attack. Learning to respond to those situations can also be a great bonding experience for your team of employees, increasing trust and communication between them.

Industry Specific First Aid Training

Corporate first aid training is tailored to your industry. Having a person on your team who knows general first aid practices is not always enough. Getting them trained on industry-specific risks and practices makes them much, much more efficient when you need them to respond to an emergency in real time.

Mississauga FIrst Aid Training Saves Money

Workplace injuries are expensive even if you don’t get sued for damages. Treating the injury right away may lead to significant savings, making the first aid course an investment. Moreover, some insurance companies may give significant discounts on their premiums if your employees are trained in CPR and first aid.

Injury Prevention Benefits

The least obvious but very important factor is that it makes your employees acutely aware of workplace hazards in a way that makes their actions safer. First aid and CPR training can therefore help ensure employee health and safety at work, not just minimizing the damage once an injury occurs, but helping minimize the number of incidents too.

Of course, once you got first aid training for your Mississauga employees, they can also use it elsewhere, increasing the safety in other circles, their families being the first on this list. It is just the right thing to do, no matter how you look at it.

To get your team enrolled for first aid training in Mississauga, contact us today and we will do the rest!

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What are the Basics of First Aid Training?

When people enroll to our first aid training Mississauga, the first thing they want to know, of course, is the content of the training program. We will answer this question by giving you an outline of the most important components of basic first aid training.

But before we do that, it’s also important to clarify that there is no one basic first aid training course that covers all possible scenarios and situations. The course you take should really depend on your situation, i.e. where and in what scenarios you might need to practice first aid. There are, for example, several specialized first aid programs, such as First Aid at Home, Workplace First Aid, Swimming & Water Safety, and more.

First aid situations vary, and so do first aid training courses. At the same time, there are two options for basic first aid training we offer that cover the essentials, and can make you generally prepared for a wide array of scenarios.

  1. Emergency First Aid CPR/AED

The Emergency Course is a basic must-have training on how to act in extreme situations, at least until the paramedic team arrives. It teaches CPR for home and workplace situations, and gives you the skills necessary to recognize, prevent and respond to different emergencies in adults.

This course covers topics such as

  • The Red Cross
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Check, Call, Care principle
  • Breathing and Circulation Emergencies
  • Respiratory and Cardiac Arrest
  • Wound Care Practices
  1. Standard First Aid CPR/AED

The Standard First Aid training is a more in-depth course that takes two days and provides additional knowledge on how to respond to a wider variety of first aid situations.

In addition to the topics covered in the first course, this one also gives information on:

  • Head and Spine Injuries
  • Bone, Muscle, and Joint Injuries
  • Sudden Medical Emergencies
  • Environmental Emergencies
  • Poisons

Both of those Mississauga first aid training courses grant a certificate which will be valid for three years.

As we mentioned above, there is much more to first aid than those two basic courses, which should come as no surprise as a paramedic’s training takes several years. If you expect to work in a high risk environment, such as construction, mountain tourism, sailing, or any other specialized field with its own set of highly specific dangers, it might be better to go farther and take a more in-depth course.

Still, our basic Mississauga first aid training courses are far, far better than nothing, which some of our students can testify to. When a co-worker, friend or loved one is suffering from cardiac arrest, head injury, or is otherwise facing grave danger, knowing the basic skills might already be enough to keep them alive. Not knowing those skills might leave them to face it alone.

If you are of the same opinion and agree that having those basic first aid skills is a must, call us now and enroll to our one, or two day programs.

We’re here for you to help you be there for others.

 

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