Home Safety Essentials You Need to Have to Protect Your Family! The saying ‘Stay Home, Stay Safe’ has become widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is your home truly set up to be safe? Although staying home minimizes our risk of exposure to the coronavirus, there are other precautions that every family should take…
7 Groups That Really Should Get First Aid Training Together Whatever your job, hobbies, or favourite family activities, everyone is part of a group! You could be part of a running group, a workplace team, a community group, or a sports team – and when you are together with these individuals, you want safety to…
7 First Aid Skills You Can Teach Your Child at Home The safety of our children is at the forefront of every parent and guardian’s minds. They think about what activities children should avoid to prevent hurting themselves, they pick the best foods and products for their kids, and they teach them rules to stay…
Workplace Safety 101: Getting Your Workplace Ready for Any Accident According to the National Safety Council, “every 7 seconds a worker is injured on the job.” As scary as this statistic is, it is a reality that workplaces must face when equipping their team and their environments to be a place of safety. Safety isn’t…
Which First Aid Class Do I Need? – The Different Types of First Aid Training As the year comes to a close, we begin looking ahead to the tasks and goals for the new year. Is First Aid Training and Certification on the list? For this year, we challenge YOU (as well as your workplace…
Common Workplace Injuries and How to Treat Them! Although we often associate first aid and injuries with our day-to-day accidents (burns on the stove, scrapes from a fall, and allergic reactions at the park), injuries happen in the workplace just as often, if not more than at home! According to Alberta.ca, in 2017 there were…
When to Use the Items in a First Aid Kit Scraped knees from collisions with the sidewalk, bee stings while gardening, cuts from chopping in the kitchen, a twisted ankle after a hiking spill… the need for a first aid kit are plentiful, but how often do we actually pull it out? These are only…
Going Beyond First Aid – Types of First Aid Courses That Take Helping Others a Step Further! Knowing the basics of first aid is one of the best things you can do to protect yourself and others in emergencies. It is this proactive education for public safety that gives you the knowledge to save a…
Weirdest Makeshift Lifesaving First Aid Stories When emergencies occur, we do everything in our power to help. Sometimes that means doing CPR for more than 30 minutes and other times it may mean that you are using what is accessible (and a bit weird) to save a life. As much as we hope that there…
Workplace Safety – Ultimate Company First Aid Guide When it comes to workplace safety, there are so many different things that need to be considered – the safety of the building, safe work practices, safe use of tools and equipment, safety preparedness… the list goes on! But when it comes to the most essential safety…