Online Training
First Aid Fundamentals
Built in 2025 following Canadian first aid standards, this course provides workers with essential knowledge for recognizing and responding to medical emergencies on the jobsite. You'll learn how to assess a scene, protect yourself, perform basic life-saving actions like CPR and choking response, and manage common conditions such as bleeding, shock, and allergic reactions. Please note: This course is for informational purposes only and does not provide official certification.
What You'll Learn
- Preparation & Protection – Learn how to stay safe, assess scenes for hazards, and use personal protective equipment effectively
- Primary Assessment (ABCs) – Master the fundamentals of airway, breathing, and circulation checks for fast, life-saving decision-making
- Emergency Action Steps – Know when and how to call EMS, what information to give, and how to manage your response under pressure
- CPR & AED – Step-by-step guidance for administering adult, child, and infant CPR and using an automated external defibrillator (AED) confidently
- Choking Response – Detailed protocols for assisting adults, children, infants—and even yourself—in choking scenarios
- Bleeding & Medical Conditions – Learn to manage deadly bleeding and provide first aid for conditions such as allergic reactions, asthma, seizures, cardiac arrest, stroke, and shock
- Post-Incident Support – Understand what to do after providing care, including self-care and how to reflect on and learn from the experience
About This Course
When a medical emergency happens, your first actions can make a critical difference. This awareness-level course is designed to help learners develop the confidence to act quickly, responsibly, and safely in a variety of emergency scenarios. Through practical guidance, interactive activities, and real-world examples, the course empowers participants to better understand how to recognize a medical emergency, protect themselves and others, and respond with effective first aid techniques.
Participants will learn how to prepare for emergencies by stocking a proper first aid kit, identifying potential hazards in different environments, and understanding their rights and legal protections under Good Samaritan laws. The course emphasizes critical thinking, situational judgment, and safety awareness—covering key topics such as hazard checks, scene safety, infection control, and the correct use of personal protective equipment. It also explores the importance of obtaining consent before offering aid, how to assess the severity of a situation, and what to do if a victim is non-responsive or if multiple casualties are present. Learners will gain an understanding of how to perform a primary assessment, when and how to call emergency medical services, how to identify life-threatening conditions involving airway, breathing, or circulation, and how to respond effectively using CPR, AEDs, and other basic interventions such as choking response, bleeding control, and managing seizures, allergic reactions, or strokes.
Please Note: This course is for informational and awareness purposes only. It does not include hands-on practice or skills evaluation. For official certification needs, learners should seek a certified first aid program through recognized providers.
Course Requirements
- Estimated Duration
- Approximately 90 minutes in length.
- Pass Requirements
- To pass the course, you must earn an 80% on the final exam. You have three attempts at the exam.
- Certificate
- A certificate of completion is awarded upon successful completion of the final exam.
- Registration Fee
- $49.99 CAD
Frequently asked questions about online training
Common questions about enrollment, completion, and certificates.
What are the benefits of online training?
Benefits of online training include:
- Cost effective: no hotels, travel, meals and less time away from the workplace.
- Convenient: courses can be completed wherever you have access to a computer and internet access.
- Self paced: students can pause at any time and continue where they left off.
- Consistent: video/slide format ensures the course is the same every time.
- Easy verification: online access to training and certification records for students and managers.
Which online training courses does Safe + Sound offer?
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What is BIS Safety Software Inc.?
BIS Safety Software Inc. is a network of more than 200 leading safety training companies from across North America who collectively share and provide companies and individuals with access to a wide variety of safety training courses through one centralized online application.
Since 2010, the collaborative partnership between these training companies has not only enabled the best-of-the-best in online safety training to be brought together in one location but it is also helping to improve industry safety performance through the provision of convenient, cost-effective training.
Our partners BIS Safety Software Inc. are, in our opinion, the best providers of online safety training courses in Canada. We’ve been working with BIS since March 2012 and we are completely happy with the service they provide.
It might be that your first aid certification hasn’t yet expired but you don't feel confident in your skills and would like a refresher or you maybe you need to do a WHMIS course or H2S. Whether you're looking for Confined Space Entry, Firefighting, Ground Disturbance, Fall Protection, Safe Slinging and Rigging, First Aid, Transportation of Dangerous Goods, WHMIS, Wilderness Awareness, or many other safety courses, you will likely find them in our Online Course Library.
Is there a time limit for online courses?
Everyone learns at a different pace and everyone retains information differently. When you take a course online, you go at your own speed. If you get to a certain point and don’t fully understand the material, you can pause and go back for a review. On the other hand, if everything makes perfect sense, you can go straight through the entire course right to the test.
How does virtual proctoring/testing with webcam monitoring work?
When you start your test, you will be monitored via your webcam. If you disappear from the screen or appear to be consulting another device or other material, you will be disqualified from the course. The company responsible for virtual proctoring is Integrity Advocate. You can find out more about how their system works here.
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Disclaimer
Safe+Sound First Aid Training Ltd has made every effort to ensure the quality and standards of educational products sold and distributed by Safe+Sound via this website. Once purchased all online courses and products are non-refundable and all sales are final. Please review all cancellation policy details prior to purchase.
Please ensure your specific jurisdiction and workplace accepts online safety training and allows online training for your use.
Safe+Sound First Aid Training Ltd is not involved in course development and all online courses are sold and delivered in partnership with BIS Safety Software and approved and/or endorsed agencies.