DID YOU KNOW IN MANITOBA:

There are more than 100 workplace injuries each DAY?

There are 2 amputations each WEEK?

There are 3 workplace deaths each MONTH?

Injuries on the job cost Canadian Companies billions of dollars each year in lost wages, lost production, health care expenses, lawsuits, fines and workers compensation claims.  Companies can reduce these costs by making sure employees are trained in the safe way of doing work, how to prevent injuries and how to respond properly when they do occur.

Manitoba First Aid Regulations

The First Aid Regulations MR 217/06 Part 5 requires certified first aiders in the workplace.

NOTE: The following excerpt from the Manitoba Regulation is for convenience sake only.  The original text must be consulted for all intents and purposes of applying the law.

Number of First Aiders that must be present

5.5(1) An employer must ensure that the minimum number of first aiders, as set out in the following tables, are present during working hours at a workplace.

TABLE 1
	Close Workplace
Number of workers per shift	Low hazard work	Other work
1 to 10	—	—
11 to 40	FA1	FA2
41 to 100	FA1	2 FA2s
101 to 199	2 FA1s	2 FA2s
200 or more	3 FA1s	3 FA2s

 

TABLE 2
	Distant workplace
Number of workers per shift	Low hazard work	Other work
1 to 10	—	FA1
11 to 40	FA1	FA2
41 to 100	FA1	2 FA3s
101 to 199	2 FA1s	2 FA3s
200 or more	3 FA1s	3 FA3s

 

TABLE 3
	Isolated Workplace
Number of workers per shift	Low hazard work	Other work
1 to 10	FA1	FA2
11 to 40	FA1	FA3
41 to 100	2 FA1s	2 FA3s
101 to 199	2 FA1s	3 FA3s
200 or more	3 FA1s	4 FA3s

Definitions

"Low Hazard Work" means work of an administrative, clerical or professional nature that does not ordinarily require substantial physical exertion or exposure to a potentially hazardous condition or substance.

Minimum requirements: First Aider 1  (Red Cross Emergency First Aid - 8 hrs)

A person has the qualifications of a first aider 1 if he or she holds a certificate issued by a first aid training provider showing that he or she has successfully completed at least eight hours in first aid training that addresses the following topics:

(a) the role, function and responsibilities of the first aider;

(b) emergency scene management;

(c) patient assessment: primary and secondary survey;

(d) basic anatomy and physiology, including body systems such as respiratory, circulatory, musculoskeletal, neurological and integumentary;

(e) obstructed airway and other breathing emergencies;

(f) cardiovascular emergencies, such as heart attack and stroke;

(g) control of bleeding, both internal and external;

(h) signs and symptoms of shock;

(i) cardiopulmonary resuscitation — adult — one person rescue;

(j) trauma and other acute medical situations — bone and joint injury, head and spine injury, skin disruption (lacerations and burns) and poisoning;

(k) general precautions to prevent blood and body fluid exposure;

(l) infection control.

Minimum requirements: First Aider 2 (Red Cross Standard First Aid - 16 hrs)

A person has the qualifications of a first aider 2 if he or she holds one or more certificates issued by one or more first aid training providers showing that he or she has successfully completed at least 16 hours in the following first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training courses:

(a)at least 12 hours in first aid training that addresses the topics required for first aider 1 plus the following additional topics:

(i) interaction with higher-level trained personnel and medical care agencies,

(ii) ambulance system,

(iii) obstructed airway and other breathing emergencies,

(iv) assessment and monitoring of vital signs,

(v) respiratory emergencies — respiratory system review, management of airways, airway obstruction and chest injuries,

(vi) circulatory system review — heart attack and stroke,

(vii) bleeding — wounds and control of bleeding and bandaging,

(viii) abdominal injuries — system review by quadrant,

(ix) stabilization — head, spine and pelvis injuries,

(x) upper and lower extremity injuries,

(xi) medical emergencies — epilepsy, diabetes and drug overdose,

(xii) assessment and treatment of burns,

(xiii) eye injury,

(xiv) environmental illness and injury — heat, cold and poisonings,

(xv) movement of a casualty — carries;

(b) at least four hours in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training that addresses the following topics:

(i) risk factors,

(ii) signals and actions of heart attack and stroke,

(iii) airway obstruction — prevention, causes and recognition,

(iv) entrance into the emergency medical services system,

(v) one rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (adult),

(vi) treatment of an adult with an obstructed airway,

(vii) turning of the casualty into the recovery position.

Minimum requirements: First Aider 3 

(Red Cross Emergency Medical Responder 80 hrs)

A person has the qualifications of a first aider 3 certificate if he or she holds one or more certificates issued by one or more first aid training providers showing that he or she has successfully completed at least 70 hours in the following first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training courses:

(a) at least 62 hours in first aid training that covers the topics listed in clauses 2(a) to (l) and sub clauses 3(a)(i) to (xv), appropriate to the first aider 3 qualification, plus the following additional topics:

(i) the role, function, responsibilities of the first aider — knowledge of emergency medical system, the place of the first aider in the system, other skill levels in the system,

(ii) different phases of emergency medical care — removal from immediate dangers,

(iii) scene management — triage,

(iv) training in the use of first aid equipment, e.g.: oxygen, bag-valve mask and mouth-to-mouth,

(v) anatomy and physiology appropriate to the first aider 3 qualification,

(vi) airway management and the use of first aid equipment (e.g.: bag valve, mask resuscitator, oxygen equipment),

(vii) assessment and treatment of common medical emergencies — heart attack, cardiac arrest, stroke and diabetes,

(viii) trauma to head, spine, chest, abdomen and pelvis — multiple injury management,

(ix) soft tissue injuries,

(x) safe carries and transport,

(xi) insect bites,

(xii) burns — assessment and treatment,

(xiii) obstetrics: emergency delivery and postpartum hemorrhage,

(xiv) recognition of the acute signs and symptoms of drug overdose and treatment of the injured worker,

(xv) assessment and treatment of the acute abdomen (e.g.: distended or tender),

(xvi) record keeping: preservation of information necessary for subsequent action,

(xvii) understanding and familiarity with relevant provisions of the Act and its regulations;

(b) at least eight hours in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training that covers the topics listed in sub clauses 3(b)(i) to (vii), appropriate to the first aider 3 qualification, plus the following additional topics:

(i) two rescuer cardiopulmonary resuscitation,

(ii) mouth-to-mask resuscitation,

(iii) spinal injuries.

Link to WSH Act