Course details

A coworker collapses, someone is choking, or a colleague is bleeding heavily. In those first moments, the person nearest the scene carries both the greatest responsibility and the greatest opportunity to help. This first aid fundamentals online course gives workers the concrete knowledge to act quickly, assess a situation accurately, and apply the right response before emergency services arrive.

The course covers scene safety, primary assessment, CPR and AED use, choking response, bleeding control, and serious medical conditions in a 90-minute online format that fits around a working schedule.

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Course Overview

This first aid fundamentals course is built around learning modules that move from preparation through post-incident care. Each module addresses a distinct phase of emergency response:

• 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

The course places equal weight on judgment and technique. You work through how to read a scene, determine the severity of a situation, and decide on the right course of action, not just how to execute a physical skill in isolation.

Scene, assessment, action, recovery.

What You'll Learn

This first aid training covers the full arc of emergency response, from the moment you arrive at a scene to the moment professional help takes over.

Scene readiness and self-protection

• Identify the steps required to prepare yourself to give first aid before approaching a victim
• Apply personal protective equipment correctly to protect yourself while providing care
• Recognize possible hazards on a scene and evaluate whether it is safe to approach

Primary assessment and decision-making

• Describe what to look for when conducting a primary assessment of airway, breathing, and circulation
• Evaluate the severity of a situation and explain why a thorough assessment before acting matters

Calling for help and managing the response

• Identify how and when to call emergency medical services and what information to give the dispatcher
• Describe your rights as a first aid provider, including the role of consent when offering assistance

Life-threatening emergency interventions

• Demonstrate CPR steps for adults, children, and infants, and describe correct AED use
• Apply the appropriate choking response protocol based on the age and condition of the victim
• Work through first aid responses to bleeding, seizures, allergic reactions, stroke, and shock

After the emergency

• Identify when to stop giving treatment and what to do once emergency services have taken over
• Describe the post-incident steps a first aid provider should take, including self-care and reviewing the experience

Who Should Take This Course?

• Designated workplace first aiders who need a structured refresher on assessment, CPR, AED use, and emergency protocols between in-person certification cycles
• Safety officers and site coordinators responsible for ensuring workers across a site have documented first aid awareness training on file
• Team leads and supervisors who are often first to reach an injured or ill worker and need a clear decision-making framework for those first critical minutes
• Workers in high-risk environments including construction, manufacturing, warehousing, and field operations, where medical emergencies are a realistic on-the-job possibility
• Remote or isolated workers who face longer EMS response times and need to know exactly what to do while waiting for professional help to arrive
• Any employee seeking foundational first aid knowledge who wants to be prepared to respond to a medical emergency at work, at home, or in the community

Why Take This Course?

The first responder is usually a coworker. In most workplace medical emergencies, a paramedic is not standing nearby, a coworker is the one who acts first. What that person does in the first two to four minutes directly affects the outcome.

Cardiac arrest, severe bleeding, and anaphylaxis are conditions where effective intervention is measured in minutes, and the window for action is short. Workers without a clear action plan hesitate, call for help without acting, or apply the wrong response, each outcome reducing the victim's chances.

Barriers to response go beyond technique. Knowing your rights as a provider, recognizing when a scene is safe to enter, and understanding when basic first aid has reached its limit all determine whether a bystander steps in or stands back. This course addresses each of those barriers directly.

Prior certification holders benefit too. If you completed hands-on first aid training in the past, this course reinforces the decision-making framework behind the physical skills you have already practiced.

Key Benefits

• Certificate of completion included upon passing. You receive a documented training record for your file, and your organization has proof of training for each participant.
• Covers the emergencies most likely to occur at work. Cardiac arrest, severe bleeding, choking, stroke, seizures, and anaphylaxis are the conditions where a trained bystander makes the biggest difference, all addressed here.
• Completed entirely online in 90 minutes. No travel, no scheduling conflicts, and no need to pull workers off-site for a full training day.
• Skills that apply beyond the workplace. The CPR, AED, choking, and bleeding-control protocols covered in this first aid fundamentals training are equally relevant at home, in public, or anywhere an emergency occurs.
• Priced at $29.99 per learner. Organizations equipping multiple team members with first aid awareness can do so without a significant per-head cost.