OFA Level 3

Course Details

This WorkSafeBC Occupational First Aid Level Three course is a 70-hour program designed for the urban attendant – typically those attendants who work more than twenty minutes surface travel time of a hospital. Initial certification requires full participation and course attendance, as well as satisfactory results in both a written and practical exams with a 70% pass mark.

The course curriculum includes:

• Adult CPR and AED use
• Priority Action Approach and Workplace Emergency Response Procedures (WERP)
• Scene assessment
• Patient assessment
• Critical airway & breathing and circulatory interventions with C-spine management; including insertion of oral airways, oxygen therapy and use of a bag valve mask
• Major bleeding control
• WorkSafe BC records and reports
• Small wound, soft tissue, and fracture management

All courses are taught by certified WorkSafe BC Occupational First Aid Instructors many of whom have had years of hands-on first aid experience along with many years of adult instructional experience.

Upon successful completion students will be issued a WorkSafe BC Occupational First Aid certificate with a three (3) year expiry.