Standard First Aid/CPR

This course meets the most recent Guidelines for Basic First Aid & CPR. Standard First Aid Covers: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting Yourself from Blood borne Pathogens, Prioritizing Care, Sudden Illnesses, Wounds, Injuries to Muscles/Bones/Joints, and Heat/Cold Emergencies. Adult CPR Covers: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting You, Prioritizing Care, Cardiac Emergencies, and AED. The course is great for First Providers in the workplace.

CPR Refresher

This course is the annual review for those certified in CPR. The course reviews: Recognizing Emergencies, Protecting Yourself, Prioritizing Care, Rescue Breathing, and Cardiac Emergencies.

Recordkeeping

Each year questions arise on what is recordable and what is not. This course is designed to help employers in identifying and fulfilling their responsibilities for posting certain records, maintaining records of illnesses and injuries, and reporting specific cases to OSHA. Participants who successfully complete this course are able to identify OSHA requirements and complete new OSHA Forms 300 & 300A. We will also review the MyWave site for posting your information if the program applies to you.

10-Hour General Industry Course

This course is ideal for supervisors and employees. The course focuses on specific mandated areas to discuss: Introduction to OSHA, the General Duty Clause, Hazard Communication, Bloodborne Pathogens, Personal Protective Equipment, Respiratory Protection, Electrical/Lockout Tagout, Stairways/Ladders, Confined Spaces and Fire Protection/Welding, Machine Guarding, Ergonomics, and Means of Egress. Upon successful course completion, each attendee will receive a card of completion thru the OSHA Training Institute.

10-Hour Construction Course

This course is ideal for supervisors, foremen, employees, and sometimes even Project Managers. The course focuses on various areas to discuss: Introduction to OSHA, the Competent Person, the General Duty Clause, Hazard Communication, Bloodborne Pathogens, Personal Protective Equipment, Respiratory Protection, Excavation/Trenching, Scaffolding, Fall Protection, Electrical/Lockout-Tagout, Stairways/Ladders, Confined Spaces and Fire Protection/Welding. Upon successful course completion, each attendee will receive a card of completion thru the OSHA Training Institute.

“OSHA” Update

What has changed with OSHA/VOSHA in the past year? This seminar offers what the changes are in OSHA's requirements. You'll gain an understanding of the basics of OSHA record-keeping, review the top 10 most common OSHA violations, get tips for using proactive safety audit tools and discover smart ways to prevent accidents from happening. A review of “What to do if you are inspected by OSHA/VOSHA” will be part of the seminar.

What to Expect for a VOSHA Inspection

Maintaining a safe workplace environment is more than just good business practice—it’s the law. It happens all too often: people assume they are in compliance with VOSHA, but during a routine inspection, they are shocked at the number of violations they’ve racked up (and the hefty fines they’ll have to pay). This workshop takes the guesswork out of VOSHA compliance. You’ll discover smart solutions, “quick fixes” and preventative measures that will help you maintain a safe working environment and bring your organization up to VOSHA’s stringent safety standards.

Ergonomic Principles in Health Care

Did you know that 24% of all injuries in healthcare involve the lower back, and that the average age of nurses is over 45 years old? We will talk about challenges in this area discuss ideas for mitigating high risk factors, including various lifting equipment and will look at options for effective training, and policy setting.

Ergonomics: How to Properly Set Up Your Workstation

What is the proper way to set up a workstation? What if you can’t afford new furniture or computers, are there ways to make adjustments to help prevent ergonomic injuries? By using some simple tools we will teach you how you can be the ergo specialist at your workplace. You will become proficient in noticing awkward postures or a poor set up that could cause issues. Discussion will also be spent on how to manage and work with a difficult situation or an employee who is resistant to change.

Success for a Struggling Supervisor: Supervisory Overview (cosponsored by Acadia)

Why do supervisors struggle? One of the leading reasons is because most who are promoted through the ranks are promoted due to their ability to perform the work and not necessarily due to their skills to lead, direct, and supervise. This seminar will provide you with an opportunity as a supervisor to enhance your performance in all of these areas: lead, direct, coach, motivate, and mentor. A healthy combination of solid skills such as these are integral to superior leadership qualities as a supervisor and can assist in reducing injury rates. An added, but not overlooked benefit is the potential to experience increased productivity as well; two areas that ultimately can yield better financial results of your organization.

Safety for the Small Business

This seminar focuses on the four core elements of an effective safety and health management system: management leadership and employee involvement; worksite analysis; hazard prevention and control; and safety and health training. The goal of the seminar is to review the standards as they relate to your business, relate to how to train your staff on the pertinent information, and understanding the benefits of implementing a safety and health management system in the workplace.

Success for a Struggling Supervisor: Supervisors in the Construction Industry (cosponsored by Acadia)

Why do supervisors struggle? One of the leading reasons is because most who are promoted through the ranks are promoted due to their ability to perform the work and not necessarily due to their skills to lead, direct, and supervise. This seminar will provide you with an opportunity as a supervisor to enhance your performance in all of these areas as they apply to the construction industry: lead, direct, coach, motivate, and mentor. A healthy combination of solid skills such as these are integral to superior leadership qualities as a supervisor and can assist in reducing injury rates. An added, but not overlooked benefit is the potential to experience increased productivity as well; two areas that ultimately can yield better financial results of your organization.

Success for a Struggling Supervisor: Supervisors in General Industry (cosponsored by Acadia)

Why do supervisors struggle? One of the leading reasons is because most who are promoted through the ranks are promoted due to their ability to perform the work and not necessarily due to their skills to lead, direct, and supervise. This seminar will provide you with an opportunity as a supervisor to enhance your performance in all of these areas as they apply to general industry: lead, direct, coach, motivate, and mentor. A healthy combination of solid skills such as these are integral to superior leadership qualities as a supervisor and can assist in reducing injury rates. An added, but not overlooked benefit is the potential to experience increased productivity as well; two areas that ultimately can yield better financial results of your organization.

Safety Coaching: Impacting the Industry

Great coaches inspire great achievement. They demand excellence, expect sacrifice, inspire victory, and garner respect. What secrets do great coaches know about motivation? How can you use them to enhance your employees' performance and productivity? In this seminar, you’ll learn how to motivate your team through proven coaching and management techniques, how to devise a winning strategy, motivate your players, take action steps to improve your leadership, and implement ideas and techniques that will put you in a position to better your team.

New Employee Orientation

This seminar is excellent for anyone responsible for the orientation process in the workplace. The seminar will cover how to set up a formal program, what will work best for your company, how to maintain the Orientation Program and Important Ideas to Include, General Safety Rules & Policies, Hazard Communication & Chemical Safety Procedures, Control of blood borne pathogens, Procedures for safety violations, accidents, and near-misses.

Defensive Driving Update (cosponsored by Patriot)

This course is designed to refresh the driver on safe habits. The course focuses on the Distracted Driver-and what we now encounter on the road, The Aggressive Driver, Safe Backing & Parking, Vehicle Positioning, Cushion of Safety, Right-turn Procedures, Scanning, Blind spots, Safety Devices, Handling Blind Spots, Weather Conditions, Vehicle Inspection, Speeding, Weather Conditions, Tailgating, and Driving in Commercial/Retail Areas.

Defensive Driving For the Repeat Offender

This seminar targets those that have had exposures with vehicles in the workplace in the past few years. This may be an accident, traffic violation and near misses. The course emphasizes the Defensive Driving principles and reminders on how to be safe on the road, in their own vehicle and/or driving your company vehicles.

How Safety Can Affect Your Business

Whether you have one employee or hundreds … as their employer, you are responsible for their safety. This seminar will cover all of the latest regulatory information concerning safety, health, and environmental issues in the workplace. You'll discover dozens of cost-effective ways for getting your organization into compliance, learn how to expand the effectiveness of your safety training program, find out how to keep the meticulous records required by OSHA, and learn how to assess your organization for a variety of hazards. We'll also show you where to turn for up-to-the-minute information on OSHA's newest rules and regulations, so that you can keep abreast of changes that might affect your work environment.

Hiring Subcontractors-How it Affects Your Business

This course is ideal for supervisors and management. Anyone that hires a Subcontractor in any form, even to fix the air conditioning or clean the business is affected by this. Do you know you have obligations under the OSHA Act for the subcontractors to be safe in your workplace or your jobsite? The course focuses on Creating Employer, Exposing Employer, Correcting Employer, Controlling Employer, Construction Management, how the roles differ. A review of different subcontractor agreements will be reviewed, as well as the mandated standards and where the exposures exist.