Training in Emergency Care and Professional Rescue

Training Services Include:

• Prehospital emergency care such as EMR

• Emergency care for hospitals and clinics, such as BLS Provider

• Water rescue, including National Lifeguard Service (NLS)

• Ground and K-9 Search and Rescue

• Survival in Remote and Urban Settings

• Custom courses in EMS and SAR

Canadian Red Cross Certification Courses

The following courses use Red Cross materials, programs and certifications and are limited to 12 students per instructor.

Basic Life Support ("Health Care Provider CPR") Provider
(BLS Provider)

Advanced First Aid (AFA)

First Responder (FR)

Emergency Medical Responder (Ontario-only) - EMR

Emergency Medical Responder (National level) - EMR

Please Note - CZER offers group training for community, commercial or industrial clients. We do not have "drop in" courses for individuals.

Courses with Certification from Lifesaving Society (LSS) and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (HSFO)

Lay-rescuer CPR C

Emergency First Aid

Standard First Aid

Bronze Program

National Lifeguard Service - Pool and Waterfront Options

CZER-Certified Courses

• Introduction to Ground SAR

• Ground SAR Fundamentals

• Introduction to K-9 Handling

• K-9 SAR Handling - Live Find and Human Remains Detection

• Emergency Medical Technician Basic (EMT-B) Preparation

• Aquatic First Responder

• Crisis Intervention 1 & 2

• First Responder Communication

• Military to Civilian Paramedic Preparation

• NREMT-P to A-EMCA Preparation

• Custom courses available

5 Reasons to Choose CZER for Your Emergency Training Needs

1. Gold-Standard Teaching at Normal Industry Prices

While we offer the Red Cross curriculum for professional responders, we also teach above the basic level of the course requirements. And while we teach above standard, we examine students TO standard, not above. So once you are used to our teaching standards, the examination is much more straightforward than in a class taught simply to the minimum passing standard.

While we provide gold-standard instruction, we charge the same basic rate as the “middle” of the Professional Responder market. We provide a better service for the same price.

2. Statistically Proven to Lead to Employment

CZER keeps track of student outcomes. 95% of our EMR graduates went on to work as EMRs, police officers or firefighters in Ontario and Alberta, or into Ontario Paramedic Programs. In other words, 95% of our grads go on to become professional responders.

No other training agency can say this. Our training works, and we’ve proved it.

3. More Practical

In most Professional Responder courses the instructor is encouraged to spend a minimum of 1/3 of the class time on practical exercises and simulated rescues. The remaining time is spent on theory.

Practical exercises and scenarios are what make students strong, far more than book learning and theory, although this is also necessary. “War stories,” where the instructor tells anecdotes about their career, should only be used to illustrate points in the course, not as a substitute for learning the syllabus.

Code Zero courses aim for a minimum of 50% practical. This makes a big difference for students – what they get elsewhere is a lot of theory with some practical, but with CZER they get mostly practical with some theory.

Part of doing this well depends on having the best possible training equipment, and enough of it to allow the class to move swiftly through different skills. We bring more gear and better-quality gear to our courses than most training agencies. This allows us to have better time management and produce better responders.

4. Real-world Approach

Some of what we know in prehospital emergency care is from study and evidence-based medicine. Some of it is learned in the field as a student, with the preceptors handing down their wisdom to the student. The best education is when an instructor can provide both the evidence-based medicine AND the field experience and earned wisdom.

Code Zero training makes use of both to ensure we teach you skills and techniques that are simple to learn, safe and effective to perform, and well-proven in the field with good outcomes in medical study. We do not prepare you in a theoretical model that will not perform well in the real world. Code Zero gives students systematic tools to break down the problem and solve it.

Our instructors have taught for many of the national training agencies known as the Big Five – St. John’s Ambulance, Red Cross, Heart and Stroke, the Canadian Ski Patrol and Lifesaving Society – before teaching for Code Zero Emergency Response. This means our instructors have a sense of the industry as a whole, and what works well and what works poorly in a training context.

Our Faculty have collectively trained more than 30,000 emergency responders.

5.More Fun!

We know that learning emergency care is challenging. We find our students perform better in a "Learner Centered" environment, using games and exercises to make the learning more pleasant. Our instructors use humor to break up the seriousness of these courses. We have found that graduates remember what they learned better when they had a good time in class!

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