📚 Guide by Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety — Allstar Enviro Safety Now Has The Childcare First Aid With Cpr Level B And Aed — a Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety guide for Canadian oil & gas, construction, and industrial workers. Written and reviewed by Arliss Levine, CRSP, CHSC, Calgary lead safety instructor.
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Allstar Enviro Safety is pleased to announce that their lead Safety Consultant, Arliss T.E. Levine, was accepted as an instructor in the Childcare First Aid certificate program. These programs are certified under the auspices of the Canadian Red Cross and will assist clients in complying with Part 11 of the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act and Code.
Day homes, nurseries and daycare providers in Alberta are required under the Alberta Regulation to have a ratio of certified workers per shift in first aid, with a specific emphasis on Childcare. Courses are designed to educate people in charge of children to have proper understanding of safety and know how to perform choking and cpr techniques when called upon in an emergency. Wound management, child proofing, and disease prevention are covered in the two day program.
Injury affects more children in Alberta than all the diseases combined for adults. It is essential that we put our proper trust in those supervising young people and ensure that they are competent in an emergency. These courses are designed for those in the early childhood education industry as well as for parents/caregivers. They include the latest first aid and CPR guidelines
Arliss T.E. Levine, CRSP, CHSC, BA, NEBOSH IOGC and COR Auditor has an extensive first aid background and has training as a casualty simulator which she has practiced in some of the green cloud simulations put on by Emergency Medical Services.
Emergency Child Care is a one day classroom based program.
For a more advanced program, candidates can enroll in the 2 day Standard ChildCare First Aid.
Both include CPR Level B and AED (Automatic External Defibrillator)
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Allstar Enviro Safety has been providing classroom based and e learning training, consulting and safety program development to Alberta companies for several decades. Their lead Safety Consultant, Arliss T E Levine, CRSP, CHSC, BA, NEBOSH IOGC is also a COR Auditor. Allstar Enviro Safety is pleased to offer over 100 online programs that offer downloadable and printable certificates on safety and environmental topics.
Additional Safety Knowledge
Alberta Workplace First Aid Requirements
Alberta OHS First Aid Regulation categorises workplaces by hazard type (low, medium, high) and distance from an emergency medical facility. Requirements scale from a Type 1 first aid kit for low-hazard offices to a full first aid room with a trained attendant and rescue equipment for remote high-hazard sites. Every employer must post the names of designated first aiders and maintain a first aid record book.
The Primary Survey — ABCDE
Every first aid response follows a standard primary survey to identify life-threatening conditions in priority order:
- A — Airway: is it clear? Foreign object, tongue, swelling? Perform head-tilt/chin-lift if no spinal injury suspected.
- B — Breathing: is the casualty breathing normally? Look, listen, feel for 10 seconds.
- C — Circulation: check for signs of life, severe bleeding, shock.
- D — Disability: level of consciousness (AVPU: Alert, Voice-responsive, Pain-responsive, Unresponsive), neurological signs.
- E — Environment/Exposure: protect from environment, expose injuries for assessment, prevent hypothermia.
CPR — Current Guidelines
Adult CPR: compressions at 100–120 per minute, depth of 5–6 cm (2–2.4 inches), full recoil between compressions, minimise interruptions. Compression-to-ventilation ratio is 30:2 for single rescuers. Child (1 year to puberty): use one or two hands depending on size, compress about 1/3 the depth of the chest. Infant (under 1 year): use two fingers, compress 4 cm (1.5 inches). AED should be applied as soon as available — every minute of delay reduces survival by 7–10%.
Allstar Enviro Safety Now Has The Childcare First Aid With Cpr Level B And Aed — Certification Levels
Alberta workplace first aid levels: Emergency First Aid (basic, 8 hours, 3-year validity), Standard First Aid (comprehensive, 16 hours, 3-year validity), and Advanced First Aid or Wilderness First Aid for remote workplaces. CPR levels A (adult), C (adult/child/infant), and BLS/HCP (healthcare provider level with two-rescuer CPR). Recertification must be completed before expiry — expired tickets require full retraining.
Content reviewed by Arliss Levine, CRSP, CHSC — lead safety instructor at Safety Mom · Allstar Enviro Safety Calgary, an Energy Safety Canada Authorized Training Provider.
