Intermediate First Aid (OFA Level 2)
Intermediate level first aid course for industry. Replacing the WorkSafeBC Occupational First Aid Level 2 program.
This Intermediate First Aid course is the new CSA-aligned intermediate workplace first aid curriculum replacing the 1-week Occupational First Aid Level 2 program. This course meets the new amendments to Part 3 of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations relating to occupational first aid (OFA).
For detailed information on these amendments, visit the following pages on WorkSafeBC's website:
• Preliminary OHS Guidelines for Part 3 – Occupational First Aid
• Backgrounder: Occupational first aid regulatory changes
• First aid requirements (web page)
Course Details
Participants must demonstrate competency in the following skills:
- Conduct a scene assessment
- Activate the workplace emergency response procedures
- Maintain support of the head and neck, initially and with a co-worker
- Open the airway with an airway opening manoevre (head-tilt chin-lift)
- Maintain an airway opening manoevre, instruct, and have a co-worker maintain (hold the head-tilt chin-lift)
- Assess for breathing
- Clear an obstructed airway
- Breathe for a worker with a pocket mask
- Perform CPR
- Deploy an AED
- Assess skin condition, and recognize shock
- Conduct a rapid body survey (RBS)
- Control bleeding with direct pressure, dressings and bandages and a tourniquet
FAQs
Are OFA Level 2 courses changing in BC?
First aid certification levels and first aid kit contents are being aligned with Canadian Standards Association standards. Level 1, 2, and 3 certificates and kits will become basic, intermediate, and advanced, respectively. The instruction time for the new intermediate (previously Level 2) first aid course is changing from five days to two days.
Materials
The Intermediate First Aid course includes the following materiesl:
- WorkSafeBC Intermediate First Aid Participant Guide (hard copy)
Resources
Intermediate First Aid Participant GuideLooking for a group class?
If you have a group of people and would like us to come to you to teach a
Intermediate First Aid (OFA Level 2) course, we offer this course in the following locations:
Victoria | Langford | Esquimalt | Sooke | Cobble Hill | Mill Bay | Duncan | Lake Cowichan | Cedar | Ladysmith | Nanaimo | Parksville | Qualicum Beach | Port Alberni | Coombs | Parksville | Campbell River | Saltspring Island | Pender Island | Powell River | Gabriola Isand | Burnaby | Coquitlam | Delta | Langley | Maple Ridge | New Westminster | North Vancouver | Pitt Meadows | Port Moody | Richmond | Surrey | Vancouver | West Vancouver | White Rock | Langley |
Give us a call at 1.866.282.5378, or send us an email at info@alertfirstaid.com to arrange a group course.