Equine First Aid Health & Safety Training Courses
P L A N . P R E P A R E . R E A C T .
As a horse owner or rider, it is inevitable that at some point you may be confronted by a medical emergency involving your horse. It may be a simple-minor cut or laceration or more complex like a fracture or colic.
Equine First Aid Courses are part of your on going learning about horses, preventative actions and habits, daily care and routines that will help you identify when your horse may need help and how to provide prompt emergency treatment.
A Solid Foundation
IN FIRST AID
Learning how to help your horse in an emergency is all about knowledge, practice and a being part of a horse community of resources.
Learning and preparing how to remain calm while responding to an emergency situation will be of great value to your horse and to others around you.
Practicing with your horse to accept treatments , like using a spray bottle to clean a wound or a cold hose for swelling, or taking your horse’s vital signs in a non emergent situation will help prepare both you and your horse for an emergency.
First Aid helps you:
Identify components of your First Aid Kit
Gets you thinking about how to access the appropriate type of help
Identify members of the horse community as valuable resources
Full Day Course
Equine Health First Aid
Full day course combination classroom and hands-on horses
Cost 169.00/Person
Course includes:
What your vet needs to know, prevention, pain detection, conditioning your horse to accept treatment, taking proper vital signs, lacerations, punctures, bleeding, injuries and bandaging, hoof issues, colic, choke and digestive emergencies, eye injuries, collapse, shock and much more.
All attendees receive a First Aid Manual, a certificate of completion. This course earns you professional development credits with Equestrian Canada and equine related insurance discounts.
Advanced Equine Emergency First Aid: Non-Wilderness Edition
Full Day Course
Plan Prepare React
Full day course combination classroom and hands-on horses
Cost 169.00/Person
Course includes:
Assessing basic confirmation and movement, conditioning for work, toxins and poisonous plants, trapped horses, hypothermia and frostbite, tie ups, fractures and splints, sucking chest wounds, ear injuries, assessing barn hazards and much more.
Advanced Emergency Equine First Aid: Wilderness Edition
Full Day Course
Full day course combination classroom and hands on with horses
169.00/Person
Course Includes:
This is the Wilderness version of the Advanced Emergency First Aid Course with the added components of backcountry riding and suturing, Learn how to pack for the trail and how to get found if you get lost.
Safe Trailering Practices for Horses and Livestock Hauling
Full Day Course
Full day course combination classroom and hands-on learning. No horses necessary
169.00/Person
Keeping your horses safe is your number one priority. Is your trailer safe and do you know what your horse experiences during a collision? What are the protocols, your responsibilities, and liabilities when involved in an accident and laws around hauling? Do you know if the size and layout of your trailer provides your horse the comfort and stability or if it is putting strain on their body, leading to potential injury.
Join us for a hands-on day of learning how to keep your horse as safe as possible and be prepared for the unthinkable.
Disaster Planning and Emergency Preparedness
Full Day Course
169.00/Person
A must for any livestock owner, this course will train you in fire prevention, planning for and executing safe evacuation procedures, hidden dangers and responding to first aid emergencies. It also covers what to do in natural disasters such as flooding, wildfires, ice storms, hurricanes, tornadoes and more. Don't be unprepared-we can help you help your animals. This course is suitable for any livestock operation, not just horses and is supported by the insurance industry.
Half Day Course
First Aid Fundamentals
Half day course hands-on horses
Cost $99.00/Person
This is a half day covering the basic fundaments of First Aid. Working hands-on with the horses learning to take vital signs, recognizing pain in horses, detecting colic and participate in bandaging scenarios. All attendees receive a first reference booklet.
I Can Help - Horse Safety and First Aid basics for kids
Childrens Course
3 hour hands-on horses
Suitable for ages 5-10 years old
Cost $59.00/Person
Have a horse crazy youngster? Sign them up for the 3 hour kids program. They'll learn horse safety and basic first aid in a fun, hands on environment. There's even a recipe for horse cookies in their manual and they'll all get a frameable certificate of completion! No horse experience necessary!
Yay or Neigh - Farm Safety for Kids
Childrens Course
3 Hour course
Cost $59.00/Person
Moving to or visiting a farm and want to familiarize your children with safety beforehand? This 3 hour course covers all the safety 'yay or neighs' your child needs to stay safe and recognize when something isn't right.
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All courses need a waiver to be signed and sent prior to Course Dates.
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Equine First Aid Instructor – Code of Ethics
1. The EFAI will at all times consider the needs and safety of the horse(s) while teaching first aid, in order to ensure proper care and treatment of the horse.
2. The EFAI is not a Doctor of Veterinarian Medicine and will not identify him or herself in any such capacity, nor diagnose illness or condition nor provide advice nor administer medications.
3. Horses are living, breathing, reacting animals. While teaching, the EFAI will consider the safety of the students at all times.
4. The EFAI will provide first aid services for any horse that may require it, contacting the local veterinarian as necessary.
5. The EFAI is representing Equi-First Aid Canada and will strive to maintain the high standards set for EFA Instructors.
6. The EFAI is responsible for ensuring that all students leave his or her course with an acceptable level of understanding of the course content.
7. The EFAI will strive to improve his or her equine knowledge and skills, and is encouraged to collaborate with other professionals in the equine world.
8. The EFAI is entitled to charge fees for professional services, however regardless of fees charged or received, the quality of instruction must be maintained with the usual professional standard.
9. The EFAI will carry personal liability teaching insurance and will present to host and/or student upon request.
10. The EFAI will, at all times, conduct him/herself with the utmost level of professionalism.
F I R S T A I D C O U R S E
Fun from our latest
Thank you to the amazing horses, participants, leaders of Spirit Riders 4H club. Thank you to host Angelique Bjork from Sunny Sky Equine Services.
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