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There have been quite a few frantic calls from people stating their company will not take an online CPR or First Aid certification card.  They need to check out the company’s policy for their training needs! 

American CPR & Safety, Inc., advocates taking your CPR and First Aid training from a live instructor in a classroom environment. 

Due to the lack of hands on training from web site training, most students miss the one to one question time and live contact. We also do one/one training for those of you who dislike the classroom ‘feel’, or have hectic schedules that warrant this type of training. 

Our classroom student size is small, so we may directly work with our students.  Our instructors are educated to work with students in any capacity.  If it’s English as a second language, a personal special consideration for physical abilities, or just plan anxiety.  We can help our students achieve their maximum potential. 

CPR and First Aid are ‘hands on’ courses.  This training is nothing like taking an English course on line. 

Our students get proper training in the art of ventilation, compressions, techniques of bandaging, etc.  Can you answer the question - Just how do you wrap an ankle with an ACE bandage?? after taking an on line course? An on line course gives the student the basic book information, not reality.  Come to our sites and join our classes!  Listen to our instructors explain just what it’s like to do compressions on a real person, wrap a broken arm on a young boy or talk to a person in pain. 

Our students leave our classroom with a sense of accomplishment and educational fulfillment!  Isn’t this what you’re looking for?? We don’t stop there!  We encourage our students to stay in touch and call us whenever they have a question, feel the need to vent after an incident, or want to brag about the great experience they had helping someone in need!

Come experience great training at a great price for you, your company’s employees, or your scout troop! 

Our July start date for our 40 hour First Responder training is on our class schedule page.  Please join us in this exciting course!  We schedule our class dates to meet the busy schedule of our students.

POST accredited training and certified through the Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board of the State of Minnesota. 

Are you a law enforcement student needing your training before September??

Our class will be perfect for your hectic schedule.  Sign up now for our “no stress” training! 

New Employee orientation training:

The consequences of orientation failure—accidents and injuries—are not something you want on your conscience or on your record.

Here are two case studies in orientation failure:

Case 1: Instead of shutting down a conveyor to clean it, a new employee decided to save time and do the job while the conveyor was moving. When he was finished, he prepared to jump off the conveyor. Unfortunately, he slipped, and his pants got caught in the roll feeder. He lost a leg, but he was lucky not to have lost his life. Sure, someone had told him to shut the conveyor down first. But the message apparently didn’t get across. This young worker doesn’t seem to have understood the “why” of the shutdown rule or the risk he was taking if he failed to follow it. Your maintenance team members are your gold, they should keep your production going without an incidence like this one!  Get our great lockout/tagout session and cancel out an incident like this one!!

Case 2: A novice forklift operator noticed that his forklift was blocking an aisle. Instead of getting back onto the forklift to move it, he stood beside it and put it into reverse. He lost control of the forklift. In an effort to get on the lift truck, he slipped and fell. The forklift ran over him, crushing his back. After months in the hospital, several operations, and more months of rehabilitation, he was able to walk again, but suffered constant pain. To be fair to the employee’s supervisor, who would have imagined that someone could do something so stupid and dangerous? But when you’re orienting new employees, you have to imagine the most outrageous possibilities and cover all the bases. Beware of making assumptions about what new employees know—especially if they are young and inexperienced. Get our great fork lift inspection/training session and eliminate these mistakes!

Oriention Buddies!

Stories like these underline the need to provide essential, effective safety training to new hires as soon as they come on board. Of course, finding the time for orientation is always a problem. That’s where orientation buddies come into the picture.

Every new hire should have an orientation buddy to help him or her get off to a good, safe start. For example, orientation buddies can:

• Provide accurate information about policies, procedures, job hazards, and safe work practices.
• Clarify job assignments to prevent mistakes.
• Answer questions about hazards and help solve problems.
• Assist with initial safety training.
• Familiarize new workers with tools, equipment, materials, and so on.
• Provide feedback and encouragement for safe work behavior.

In order to carry out these important duties successfully, orientation buddies should:

• Have been with your organization for at least a year.
• Have a good performance history and a safe work record.
• Be skilled in the new employee’s job.
• Possess broad knowledge about your organization, your operations, and your safety programs.
• Be compatible with the new worker in terms of age, background, etc.
• Have the time to spend with the new employee and be willing to take on the assignment.
• Be patient and communicate well.
• Serve as a positive safety role model.

More employees are injured in their first month on the job then any other times.  This is why new employee training is a must.  Bring us in to train your new employees in First Aid, CPR and corporate safety training.  We also have a vast number of training tapes we can rent to your company to help you train your employees.  With our great training packages to choose from, your company rating with OSHA is tops!!

You just can’t be too careful with compressed gases. And when you have a high standard of care, you also need a high standard of training to ensure employee compliance with safety rules.

Basic Rules for Compressed Gases

Although specific precautions for using compressed gases safely vary depending on the gas, there are a number of essential rules that apply to all compressed gases:

• Use cylinders only in well-ventilated areas.
• Keep them away from heat and ignition sources.
• Never smoke around compressed gas cylinders.
• Make sure they are secured upright when in use.
• Open valves slowly, making sure they are pointed away from you and co-workers.
• Don’t try to force valves that won’t open.
• Don’t tamper with safety devices.
• Make sure that equipment is compatible with the cylinder pressure and contents.
• Check all connections before use and periodically during use to make sure they are not leaking.
• Keep valves closed when cylinders are not in use.
• When a cylinder is empty, close the valve, disassemble equipment properly, replace the valve protection cap, mark the cylinder “empty” or “MT” and store it separately from full cylinders.

To learn more about compressed gases and other OSHA topics. Click on our button for your safety training.  WE HAVE RENTAL TAPES FOR YOU TOO!!!!