Chainsaw Safety, Protective Equipment and Training

Chainsaw Safety Training – it’s not just about protective equipment; It’s about you and your skills as well. Now that we offer chainsaw safety training on-line, we’ve done some research. Recently that helped us to create the chainsaw safety...

Asthma for the First Aider

What is Asthma? A breathing condition in which the airways constrict (narrow) making it harder to breathe. It is most common in children and young adults although it could affect anyone. Asthma attacks can come on quickly and at their most serious could leave you...

Chainsaw Safety [Infographic]

We’ve recently been given the opportunity to promote Chainsaw Safety. Not really knowing too much about chainsaw safety (except that it’s one of the scenarios in the OFA1 course) we went digging for statistics. Here’s what we came up with. Chainsaw...

Chest Pain from angina

There are many causes of chest pain, but angina is the most common one. The chest pain of angina is caused by temporary loss of oxygen to the heart muscle – sometimes from hardened arteries, sometimes from narrowed arteries (from fatty deposits in the blood...

MI? Call 911 for the Ambulance

Why wouldn’t you call 911 and get emergency medical services to send an ambulance? Perhaps you didn’t know the number until now, but we’ve fixed that right? 911! And if you’re not local to us, check out this list of world-wide...