Calgary / AFA + BLS
Nov 9 to Dec 6, 2026
Hybrid · 16 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300Professional responder
Advanced First Aid (AFA) with BLS in Calgary
An in-depth responder program with Basic Life Support, for workplaces and roles requiring advanced first aid.
80 hoursBLS includedNo prerequisite
Register for this course$1,300.00 + GST & applicable taxes
See datesSee how the responder courses fit together
AFACalgary
Leduc
Two certificates, one course
Everyone who passes receives both certificates, each with its own expiry: Advanced First Aid for 3 years and Basic Life Support for 1 year.
Included in this course
Basic Life Support
Valid for 1 year
Canadian Red Cross
Advanced First Aid
Valid for 3 years
Canadian Red Cross
Advanced First Aid
Valid for 3 years
Included in this course
Basic Life Support
Valid for 1 year
Know before you book
Length
80 hours (multi-week cohort; class days 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.). Certification needs full attendance.
Prerequisites
You don’t need an earlier course or certificate.
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Sort the calendar first. The size of the time commitment is the part people underestimate, especially rotational workers and anyone whose employer is paying. Confirm your time off before you register, and book well ahead if your timing is tied to a hiring deadline or a seasonal work window.
Come dressed to work. Clothing you can kneel, crawl and lift in, closed shoes, hair tied back. Bring water, food for long days, a pen and something to write in. There is a real physical component, floor work, kneeling for long stretches, moving patients, so if you have an injury, a mobility limitation, a hearing consideration or anything else that affects how you will participate, tell us before the course starts rather than on day one. We can plan around most things when we know in advance.
Register with your legal name spelled exactly as a hiring file or an employer will expect to see it. That spelling is what gets printed on the certificate, and correcting it afterwards takes considerably longer than typing it carefully at registration.
There is no prerequisite and no entrance exam. If it has been years since you did any first aid, reviewing basic anatomy and how Check, Call, Care works will make the opening days feel less steep, but arriving with nothing is fine. What matters more is showing up ready to be uncomfortable, to be corrected, and to do the same skill again until it is automatic.
Certificate
Advanced First Aid is valid for 3 years, and Basic Life Support for 1 year. To renew Advanced First Aid, take Advanced First Aid Recertification before it expires.
What you’ll be able to do
Five of the 54 skills you practise on this course. Choose one to see it.
Safety and assessment
Scene and first check
You make sure the scene is safe, then find out quickly whether anything is threatening the person's life and get help on the way. You practise it until it is the first thing you do.
Safety and assessment
Secondary assessment
Once the urgent problems are dealt with, you ask what happened and check the person from head to toe, practising on a classmate. It is how you find an injury that is not obvious at first.
Safety and assessment
Taking a blood pressure
You wrap a cuff around a classmate's arm and listen with a stethoscope for the sounds that mark the top and bottom numbers. On a loud scene, the wrist pulse coming back gives you the top number.
Airway and breathing
Oxygen therapy
You set up an oxygen cylinder and regulator yourself and choose the right mask or nasal cannula for the person in front of you. You learn to give it when your findings call for it.
Head and spine
Strapping to a backboard
You strap a person onto a backboard and pad the gaps so the head and body move together when the board is lifted. You practise checking that the straps hold firm without making it harder to breathe.
Included certificates
Basic Life Support
Basic Life Support is part of this course and comes with its own Red Cross certificate. It is the provider level of CPR: adults, children, babies and newborns, with a bag valve mask and an AED.
What it covers
From a student on this course
“If you want to be able to actually use the skills you are learning, go with Delta.”
Steve DuerksenAdvanced First Aid · Leduc
Ready to take this course? $1,300.00 + GST & applicable taxes
01 / Included with your enrolment
What comes with your seat
Everything below comes with your seat, in your Delta student portal. The online tools open when you register, so you can start before your first class.
Pre-course tools
Your course opens in the Delta student portal the day you register, as a step-by-step path through each chapter, with a readiness view so you walk into class knowing where you stand.
Flashcards
Chapter flashcards that unlock as you finish each chapter, and a Needs improvement deck built from the cards you miss.
581 flashcards across 25 chapters
Video slides
Video slides you can watch before class.
PDFs to download
PDFs you can download and keep.
Delta Tutor
Access to Delta Tutor, our online practice tools, so you can keep practising between classes.
The digital textbook
Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders as a digital textbook, in your Delta student portal.
Includes the full decks for The Delta Model, Advanced First Aid. The material builds on itself, so you get every level under the one you registered for.
Study material is part of your enrolment and opens in your portal when you register.
Course details
The facts
- Certificates
- Advanced First Aid Valid for 3 years
- Basic Life Support Valid for 1 year
- Duration
- 80 hours multi-week cohort; class days 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Locations
- Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100
- Price
- $1,300.00 + GST & applicable taxes (charged at checkout for your province)
- Prerequisites
- None
- CPR / BLS
- BLS included
What is BLS?
BLS is Basic Life Support CPR, also known as Healthcare Provider CPR. It covers adults, children, babies and neonates.
It is a professional level CPR course, used by firefighters, nurses, paramedics, doctors and other healthcare workers.
More about the ages this covers - Recertification
- To renew Advanced First Aid, take Advanced First Aid Recertification before it expires.
Ways to take this course
Traditional
In the room- How it runs
- 10 days in class.
- Class times
- 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Whole course
- 80 hours in total
or
Hybrid
In the room and live online- How it runs
- In class, with live online evenings.
- Class times
- Online evenings 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
- Whole course
- 80 hours in total
The same course, the same certificate and the same standards.
Your course materials
Digital access to these books comes with your course, in your Delta student portal. Printed manuals are in our classroom library to use in class.
Canadian Red Cross Emergency Care for Professional Responders
Printed copy to keep: $197.96 10% off at registration
Regular price $219.95
Canadian Red Cross Basic Life Support Field Guide
Printed copy to keep: $35.96 10% off at registration
Regular price $39.95
Bought on their own from the shop, the books ship to you at full price. The discount exists only at registration.
Public sessions run in Calgary, with dates in Leduc through the year.
- Calgary / AFA + BLS
Dec 7 to Dec 18, 2026
Traditional · 10 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Dec 7 to Dec 18, 2026
Traditional · 10 sessions
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Calgary / AFA + BLS
Dec 12, 2026 to Jan 24, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions · Waitlist only
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Dec 12, 2026 to Jan 24, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions · Registration closed
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Jan 11 to Jan 22, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Calgary / AFA + BLS
Jan 11 to Jan 22, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Feb 22 to Mar 5, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Calgary / AFA + BLS
Mar 10 to Apr 18, 2027
Hybrid · 14 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Mar 22 to Apr 2, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Calgary / AFA + BLS
May 3 to May 14, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Jun 9 to Jul 18, 2027
Hybrid · 14 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Aug 16 to Aug 27, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Calgary / AFA + BLS
Sep 8 to Oct 17, 2027
Hybrid · 14 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Oct 18 to Oct 29, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100 - Calgary / AFA + BLS
Nov 1 to Nov 12, 2027
Traditional · 10 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Calgary / AFA + BLS
Dec 11, 2027 to Jan 23, 2028
Traditional · 10 sessions
Calgary, AB, 1550 5 St SW #300 - Leduc / AFA + BLS
Dec 11, 2027 to Jan 23, 2028
Traditional · 10 sessions · Waitlist only
Leduc, AB, 4810 50th Ave Suite 100
Where we teach this course
Public sessions run in Calgary, with dates in Leduc through the year.
We also deliver this course at your worksite for groups, useful for crews who can’t release staff to travel. Onsite delivery carries an additional fee on top of per-person pricing. Request an onsite quote.
We travel for private and group training across Canada, and internationally by arrangement. If you’re outside Alberta, tell us where you are and we’ll price it.
Our Calgary classroom
1550 5 St SW #300, Calgary
Street view image: Google Our Leduc classroom
4810 50th Ave Suite 100, Leduc
Street view image: Google
The full course
What you’ll be able to do
- Run a structured patient assessment under pressure, then repeat it as the patient changes
- Manage an airway with adjuncts and suction, and ventilate a patient who is not breathing adequately
- Deliver oxygen using the equipment covered in the course and choose the right device for the patient
- Control serious bleeding and recognize and treat shock before it becomes unrecoverable
- Perform BLS-level CPR and use an AED as part of a working team, not just solo
- Immobilize and move an injured patient with the equipment and the help you actually have onsite
- Identify time-critical medical emergencies early and decide when transport cannot wait
- Give a short, organized handover to arriving EMS and document what you found and did
What Advanced First Aid with BLS actually is
AFA is the most advanced workplace first aid course we deliver.Read moreShow less
AFA is the most advanced workplace first aid course we deliver. It is scheduled at 80 hours of instruction, which is why it runs as an in-person cohort across consecutive days rather than as a long weekend. Cohorts lay those 80 hours out differently depending on the location and the calendar, so the daily schedule varies even when the total does not. The Canadian Red Cross sets the hour requirement and it can change, so check the exact hours published with the run you are booking. There is no prerequisite and we do not ask for a previous first aid certificate, but this is not a beginner's card. Expect long days on your knees, on the floor, and with your hands on a patient.
Basic Life Support is part of this course, so you finish with two certificates: Advanced First Aid and Basic Life Support. Each has its own expiry date. Advanced First Aid is valid for 3 years and Basic Life Support for 1 year. The Canadian Red Cross sets the validity periods and prints the exact dates on the certificates you receive, so put both dates in your calendar the day you get them.
Because this is a Red Cross course, the Red Cross owns the curriculum and we teach to it. We are not going to reprint their lesson list here, if you need the current official outline for a hiring file or a safety manager, ask us and we will point you at the official course description rather than at our paraphrase of it. What we can describe is the shape of the work: structured patient assessment, airway and breathing management, serious bleeding and shock, medical and trauma emergencies, moving an injured person, and handing over to arriving EMS. All of it practised repeatedly, not demonstrated once.
What Delta adds is context. The instructors are working paramedics, firefighters and emergency professionals, so the scenarios are built the way calls actually unfold: incomplete information, awkward positions, the equipment you have rather than the equipment you wish you had, and a patient who changes while you are still assessing them.
Who this course is for, and who should take something shorter
AFA earns its length when help is far away.Read moreShow less
AFA earns its length when help is far away. On a remote lease, a camp, a shutdown, a marine job or a night shift on an industrial site, you may be the only medical care available for a long stretch of time. That changes what you need to be able to do: not just stabilize and wait five minutes, but assess properly, manage an airway, monitor a patient over time, reassess, and be ready to explain everything you found when transport finally arrives. That is the situation this course is built around.
Fire-service applicants are the other group this course tends to suit. Alberta fire services publish their own first aid and CPR requirements for applicants, and those requirements change between recruitment cycles. Read the current posting from the service you are applying to, Calgary Fire Department, or whichever service, and confirm the hours, the certificate name and the issuing body it asks for before you register. We will tell you plainly if we think a different course is the better match for the posting in front of you. Worth knowing before you plan the rest: the certificate is one line in a competition that also weighs aptitude scores, fitness testing and interviews, and Calgary's firefighter application process is documented step by step on Semparo, our sister site built for exactly that preparation.
It also suits industrial and construction responders, safety coordinators who are the named first aid attendant on paper, security staff who reach a collapse before EMS does, camp and remote-tourism workers, and people building toward Emergency Medical Responder or a paramedic career who want a serious foundation first.
Be honest with yourself about scope. If what you need is a workplace card for an office, a coaching role, a childcare position or a job that expects a one- or two-day course, AFA is far more course than you need, Basic First Aid, or Standard First Aid with BLS, is usually the right call and costs you far less time. Ask us before you book. We would rather send you to the shorter course than take payment for the wrong one.
What you will be able to do by the last day
The spine of the course is assessment.Read moreShow less
The spine of the course is assessment. By the end you should be able to walk into a scene you did not expect, make it safe, and run a structured assessment that finds the problems in the order that will kill the patient first, then repeat it, because a patient at minute twenty is not the patient you found at minute one. Most people arrive thinking the skills are the hard part. The assessment discipline is the hard part, and it is what separates someone with AFA training from someone with a weekend card.
On the skills side, you will get repeated hands-on practice with airway management and adjuncts, suction, ventilation, and the oxygen delivery equipment the course covers. You will work bleeding control and shock, immobilization and patient movement, and BLS-level CPR and AED use as part of a team rather than alone, which is a genuinely different skill from doing it by yourself on a mannequin.
You will also practise the parts nobody advertises: deciding when a patient cannot wait for a scheduled ride out, delegating to bystanders and coworkers who have no training, keeping notes that hold up later, and giving a short, organized handover to a paramedic crew who need the story in thirty seconds. Those are the skills that make you useful on a real site, and they are the ones we push hardest.
How the course runs, and how you are certified
Cohorts run in person in Calgary and in Leduc for the greater Edmonton region.Read moreShow less
Cohorts run in person in Calgary and in Leduc for the greater Edmonton region. Each run publishes its own dates and daily start times with the schedule for that cohort, check them against your shift rotation before you pay, and contact us if anything looks inconsistent. Eighty hours is a serious block of time, not something you can quietly fit around a busy month.
Certification is not automatic, and completing the hours is not the same as being certified. You have to attend the full course and pass the evaluations, which include written and hands-on components, demonstrating each skill to standard in front of an instructor. Nobody is passed on effort.
If you know you will miss a session, tell us as early as you can. What we can do depends on the cohort and on what was missed, and the options early in a run are much better than the options in the final days. We would rather solve a scheduling problem than tell you at the end that you cannot be certified.
For crews, we deliver AFA onsite at your worksite for an additional fee covering travel and setup, and we take the course elsewhere in Canada and internationally on request. Onsite delivery is the same course: the same hours, the same equipment, the same evaluations. The location changes, the standard does not.
Where AFA fits in a workplace file or a career
Alberta employers set first aid requirements from a mix of provincial occupational health and safety rules, industry practice, prime-contractor expectations and their own internal standards, and those requirements shift with the hazard, the crew size and how far the site sits from medical care.Read moreShow less
Alberta employers set first aid requirements from a mix of provincial occupational health and safety rules, industry practice, prime-contractor expectations and their own internal standards, and those requirements shift with the hazard, the crew size and how far the site sits from medical care. We do not tell people that this course satisfies a specific designation, regulation or standard, that claim belongs to the body that wrote the rule, not to a training provider. Send us the exact wording your employer, prime contractor or safety manager gave you, and we will tell you honestly whether AFA matches it, and say so if it does not.
Many students take AFA as a deliberate step toward Emergency Medical Responder, and we run an AFA-to-EMR bridge for that reason. A Canadian Red Cross EMR certificate may meet selected admission requirements at some PCP schools, verify your exact school and your exact intake with them before you build a plan around it.
Plan your renewal from day one. The Advanced First Aid certificate carries an expiry date set by the Canadian Red Cross and printed on the certificate, and it can be renewed through a shorter recertification course only while it is still valid on the day of that course. Once it has expired, the way back is the full course. Basic Life Support is a separate certificate with its own expiry, valid for 1 year, so it comes due before Advanced First Aid. Letting either lapse means going back to the long version, which costs far more time than booking the renewal before the expiry date.
Finally, the honest framing: AFA is an advanced first aid credential, not a licence to practise medicine. It does not make you a licensed practitioner and it does not authorize restricted activities. What it gives you is a documented, evaluated level of training well beyond a weekend card, and enough repetition that you act instead of freezing.
Applying to Edmonton Fire? The minimum is not the target.
Edmonton Fire Rescue Services has confirmed Intermediate First Aid as the minimum medical standard for its 2027 intake.Read moreShow less
Edmonton Fire Rescue Services has confirmed Intermediate First Aid as the minimum medical standard for its 2027 intake.
Our Advanced First Aid meets Edmonton Fire's minimum medical standard for the 2027 intake as well, because it is a higher certificate than Intermediate First Aid on the same approved list. Your certificate has to be valid on the day you apply.
In November 2025, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services invited Delta, as one of the local first aid providers, to its recruitment information session at the EFRS Training Academy to talk with applicants.
Intermediate First Aid is what you need to apply. In a process Edmonton Fire describes as “highly competitive,” it makes sense to consider how much preparation you want beyond that.
Intermediate First Aid is two days. Advanced First Aid is ten days, with more time spent on patient assessment, oxygen, airway management, spinal care and realistic scenarios. More practice making decisions, working with a partner and caring for patients under pressure.
Candidates are ranked on their performance throughout the hiring process, including a scored résumé review. Edmonton Fire does not publish which qualifications earn points, so we cannot promise that Advanced First Aid will improve your score. What it gives you is five times the training.
We teach both courses. If you need the minimum qualification to apply, take Intermediate First Aid. If you want more experience assessing and treating patients before you’re expected to do it on the job, take Advanced First Aid.
Applicants often ask why Delta is not on the Government of Alberta list of approved first aid training agencies. The list names the agency, not each partner who teaches for it. The Canadian Red Cross Society is on it, and Delta teaches Canadian Red Cross courses as a Training Partner, on the Red Cross's behalf. Alberta's first aid training page says a provider that is not on the list can deliver an approved course for an agency that is. Your certificate is a Canadian Red Cross certificate, so where an application asks for the approved training agency, write the Canadian Red Cross Society.
Competence builds confidence.
Your own oxygen kit in scenarios
Oxygen is taught with equipment that is yours: a nasal cannula and a non-rebreather mask, opened from the packaging in front of you.Read moreShow less
Oxygen is taught with equipment that is yours: a nasal cannula and a non-rebreather mask, opened from the packaging in front of you. You work with them through the course, and you wear them when you play the patient in scenarios, so nobody trains with a mask that has been on someone else's face.
They go home with you afterwards. Keep them with your kit; you have already fitted them once.
Who this course is for
- Oilfield and remote-site medics working camps, leases and shutdowns
- Fire-service applicants in Calgary and across Alberta assembling an application file
- Industrial and construction site responders on crews far from a hospital
- Safety coordinators and HSE advisors who are also the named first aid attendant
- Security and loss-prevention staff who reach an emergency before EMS does
- Students heading toward EMR, PCP or another emergency-care career
- Guides, camp cooks and remote-tourism staff working outside cell coverage
- Leduc and greater Edmonton workers who would rather not commute to Calgary for training
Where this course fits
- Intermediate First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: Required before EMR.
- Intermediate First Aid to Advanced First Aid: The usual next step.
- Advanced First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: AFA to EMR Bridge, 16 hours over 2 days.
- First Responder to Advanced First Aid: FR to AFA Bridge, 40-60 hours.
- Emergency Medical Responder to Advanced First Aid: EMR to AFA Bridge, Approx. 9 hours.
- First Responder to Emergency Medical Responder: FR to EMR Bridge, 40 hours.
Intermediate First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: Required before EMR
Intermediate First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: Required before EMR
Intermediate First Aid to Advanced First Aid: The usual next step
Intermediate First Aid to Advanced First Aid: The usual next step
First Responder to Advanced First Aid: FR to AFA Bridge40-60 hours
First Responder to Advanced First Aid: FR to AFA Bridge40-60 hours
First Responder to Emergency Medical Responder: FR to EMR Bridge40 hours
First Responder to Emergency Medical Responder: FR to EMR Bridge40 hours
AFAAdvanced First Aid
80 hours
No prerequisite
Advanced First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: AFA to EMR Bridge16 hours over 2 days
Advanced First Aid to Emergency Medical Responder: AFA to EMR Bridge16 hours over 2 days
EMREmergency Medical Responder
80-100 hours over a multi-week cohort
Emergency Medical Responder to Advanced First Aid: EMR to AFA BridgeApprox. 9 hours
Emergency Medical Responder to Advanced First Aid: EMR to AFA BridgeApprox. 9 hours
Keeping a certificate current
Renew while your certificate is still current. Once it lapses, it is the full course again.
- First Responder Recertification20 hours over 3 days
- Advanced First Aid RecertificationApprox. 40 hours
- EMR RecertificationApprox. 40 hours
- Professional Responder Skills Refresher1 full day, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.A practice day. It does not renew a certificate.
Related reading
- Hypothermia: What Shivering Tells You, and When It StopsShivering is the body fighting the cold. When it stops in a person who is still cold, things have got worse, not better. How to judge hypothermia and handle it.
- Smoke Inhalation: Why the Smoke Is the Real DangerIn a house fire the smoke usually reaches people before the flames do. What smoke does to the body, how to get out, and the signs that still need a hospital.
- A Heart Attack Rarely Looks Like It Does on TVThe clutch-the-chest picture misses a lot of real heart attacks. What the pattern actually looks like, and who tends to present quietly.
Where to go next
English-language requirements
This course is taught and assessed in English. Professional responder training involves extensive medical terminology, clinical abbreviations, patient assessment, rapid communication, and complex practical scenarios.
Live classroom translation is not offered for this program.
Students must be able to understand instructions, communicate effectively during practical scenarios, and complete the required assessments in English.
Contact us before registering if you have questions about the language requirements.
The team
Meet the people behind Delta Emergency
Our instructors are working paramedics and firefighters who keep training in their own fields.
Meet the team
Ready to take this course? $1,300.00 + GST & applicable taxes
Does this course meet Edmonton Fire's first aid requirement?
Yes. Our Advanced First Aid meets Edmonton Fire's minimum medical standard for the 2027 intake as well, because it is a higher certificate than Intermediate First Aid on the same approved list. Your certificate has to be valid on the day you apply. Edmonton Fire says more changes to its 2027 process are coming, so check its recruitment page before you apply.
Why isn't Delta on Alberta's list of approved first aid training agencies?
Because the list names the agency, not each partner who teaches for it. The Canadian Red Cross Society is on the Government of Alberta list, and Delta teaches Canadian Red Cross courses as a Training Partner, on the Red Cross's behalf. Alberta's first aid training page says a provider that is not on the list can deliver an approved course for an agency that is. Your certificate is a Canadian Red Cross certificate, so where an application, including a fire service application, asks for the approved training agency, write the Canadian Red Cross Society.
How long is Advanced First Aid?
It is scheduled at 80 hours of instruction, which is why we run it as an in-person cohort rather than a weekend course. How that total is spread across the calendar depends on how the particular cohort is laid out. Hour requirements are set by the Canadian Red Cross and are subject to change, so before you book time off, look at the hours, dates and daily start times published with the specific Calgary or Leduc run you want.
Do I need first aid training before I take AFA?
No. There is no prerequisite, and people do start from zero. That said, it is a dense course with real evaluations, so if you have never done first aid you should expect to work harder than someone coming in with recent experience. If you are unsure whether to start here or with a shorter course, contact us and describe what you need it for.
Is BLS included, or do I book that separately?
Basic Life Support is included in this course, so you finish with both certificates. Each has its own expiry date: Advanced First Aid is valid for 3 years and Basic Life Support for 1 year. The Canadian Red Cross sets the validity periods and prints the exact dates on the certificates you receive. Track both, because renewing on time is far quicker than repeating the full program.
Will this course satisfy my employer's or a fire service's requirement?
We will not promise that, and you should be skeptical of any provider who does. First aid requirements in Alberta come from occupational health and safety rules, industry practice, prime contractors and individual employers, and fire-service requirements change between recruitment cycles. Get the exact wording from your employer or the current recruitment posting, send it to us, and we will tell you honestly whether AFA matches it.
Does Advanced First Aid let me register as an EMR or work as a paramedic in Alberta?
No. AFA is an advanced first aid credential, not a licence to practise. A Red Cross EMR certificate may meet selected admission requirements at some PCP schools, but you must verify your exact school and intake directly with them.
Can you run AFA at our worksite instead of in Calgary or Leduc?
Yes. We deliver AFA onsite at client worksites for an additional fee that covers travel and setup, across Alberta, elsewhere in Canada, and internationally on request. The onsite version is the same course, same hours, same equipment, same attendance and evaluation requirements. Contact us with your crew size, location and target window and we will tell you what is workable.
What counts as a baby, a child or an adult, and which ages does this course cover?
This course carries BLS (Basic Life Support), which covers adults, children, infants and neonates. The Canadian Red Cross 2025 standards set the age groups this way. A baby is under 1 year old. A child is 1 year old up to the onset of puberty. An adult is anyone from the onset of puberty on. Puberty does not happen on a set birthday, so you judge it on the person in front of you. A 13 year old who has started puberty gets adult CPR, and one who has not is still a child. For an AED, use child pads on a child up to the onset of puberty or under 55 pounds (about 25 kg), and baby pads on a baby if the AED has them. If baby pads are not there, use child or adult pads. If child pads are not there, use adult pads. The Red Cross says adult pads are safe on a child or a baby, so do not wait for the right size. If you are training for a specific person, tell us their age and we will tell you which course fits.
Is live translation available for this course?
No. This course is taught and assessed in English, without live classroom translation. You need to understand instructions, communicate during practical scenarios and complete the assessments in English. Contact us before registering if you have questions.
Can I register on the same day as the course?
Online registration closes at 11:59 PM the night before an in-person course. If you need training today, call or text 825-883-3582 before class starts. We may be able to fit you in, depending on space and the instructor's approval. It is not guaranteed.
Online registration is closed. Does that mean the course is full?
No. Closed online only means the online booking window has ended. A seat may still be open, or open up if someone cancels. Call or text 825-883-3582 to check.
What if I arrive late?
Certification needs full attendance and every required skill. Arriving late can mean we cannot certify you that day. If you are running late, call or text as early as you can so we can tell you what is possible.
Cancellation, transfer, and refund terms are shown before payment and confirmed at registration. Not sure which course fits? Email us and we’ll help.
All coursesLast reviewed 2026-07-23