Coquitlam, B.C. – 20-June-2022: The highest level of occupational first aid training is level 3, otherwise known as OFA 3. Students are taught how to evaluate and intervene and implement a priority action approach. This means they face emergencies with an organized and rapid response, possibly saving a life by doing so. Students who finish successfully can provide emergency care for burns, fractures, eye injury, respiratory distress, and more.

All of these are critical situations. Even if they do not threaten life, delayed or incorrect intervention significantly worsens matters. This is why OFA 3 is something everyone should have. However, the OFA certification only lasts three years.

Metro Safety Training offers OFA renewal for previously certified persons looking to remain so. Their program is recognized by WorkSafe BC and is only 72 hours long. In addition to renewing certification, students redo the same training they would have had when they were first certified, but updated to remain current.
Everyone who attends this training will be as well-versed in first aid as can be, as instructions are given as they would be to laypeople. Whether they remember every detail of first aid or have forgotten something, graduates will leave on equal footing.

A spokesperson stated, "Accidents are unpredictable by definition. One should consider first aid training a safety measure for those around them. Whether it's your coworkers, your students, or your family, anyone could find themselves in need of critical intervention. However, first aid, if done wrong, may be ineffective, or worse, detrimental to the patient's condition in the long term. When you're trying to treat someone for cardiac arrest, which is life-threatening, minor negligence could have major consequences. Recertification is crucial if you plan to continue providing first aid."

OFA training grants its students skills but, more importantly, empowers them to use those skills to step in and take control of impossible situations. For this, confidence is a must. But consider the frequency at which most graduates use their training. Even if more than occasionally, certainly not every aspect of it. What is dangerous about not getting recertified is the possibility that is that a person may still have a firm grasp on their training, but if they're dealing with severe bleeding, the slightest oversight could be fateful.

Metro Safety Training appreciates that administering first aid may not always fall under the category of medical treatment, but it's typically performed before medical personnel arrives. The purpose here is to manage the patient's care to circumvent long-term problems and keep them alive long enough to receive medical attention. That means that regardless of how that care is categorized, it involves taking matters of life and death into one's own hands.

ABOUT THE COMPANY
Metro Safety Training has been making the population of British Columbia safer since 2008, with a wide range of safety courses. They work with the Canadian Red Cross and Work Safe BC to educate people about response and intervention in the face of emergencies. They also teach specific courses for manual labour, like forklift safety and fall-protection training.

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