HEALTH & SAFETY CLASSES
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CFAS (COMMUNITY FIRST AID & CPR) (7 - 8 hrs)
- Adult, Child, and Infant CPR skills
- First Aid
- AED training upon request
ADULT CPR (3 - 3.5 hrs)
- Emergency Action Steps: Check, Call, Care
- Recognizing an Emergency
- CPR
- Conscious and Unconscious Choking
CPR for the PROFESSIONAL RESCUER (4 - 5 hrs)
Designed for any individual who has a duty to respond to emergencies, this course combines lectures and video with hands-on skill training. Key content includes:
- Recognizing and responding to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children, and infants;
- Two-rescuer CPR;
- Use of body substance isolation precautions to prevent disease transmission;
- Use of resuscitation and bag-valve masks; and
- Use of an AED for a victim of sudden cardiac arrest
ADULT/CHILD CPR (3.5 - 4 hrs)
- Traditional Adult CPR plus
- Child skills (ages 1-12)
- Rescue Breathing, Child CPR, conscious and unconscious choking child
FIRST AID (2 - 2.5 hrs)
- Learn valuable basic first aid skills including,
- controlling external bleeding
- splinting
- care for sudden illnesses
- head, neck, and back injuries
- heat and cold related emergencies
CPR RECERTIFICATION COURSE (1.5 - 2.5 hrs)
- eligibility: must be currently certified in adult, child, or infant CPR, and/or AED
- have up to one year past expiration date to qualify
- intended for those who know the material and skills of correct CPR
- brief review of skills
- tested out individually on CPR skills as well as a written exam
BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS TRAINING (1/2 hour)
- how blood-borne pathogens are spread
- prevention of exposure and minimizing risk of exposure
- what to do if exposed to infectious materials
BABYSITTER'S TRAINING (6 hrs)
- designed for anyone ages 11-15
- promotes safe play, responsibility, and good decision-making processes
- promotes leadership and professionalism
- rescue breathing and first aid skills
- includes all materials
B.A.T (BASIC AID TRAINING) (6 1-hr lessons)
- 6-week course taught in an elementary school environment
- designed for 4th-grade students
- teachers must request course to be taught in their classroom
- teaches basic first aid in 6 lessons: recognizing an emergency, rescue breathing, conscious choking & ouch!, fire prevention, poison patrol, review and test
LIFEGUARD TRAINING
This comprehensive course prepares participants for employment as lifeguards and features a streamlined modular format that allows for a flexible program designed to meet your needs. Key features include:
- CPR and first aid skills and information in video presented in an aquatic setting;
- Skills-based scenarios and decision making; and
- Participant's manual contains course information for Lifeguard Training, First Aid, CPR for the Professional Rescuer, Automated External Defibrillation (AED) Essentials, Oxygen Administration for the Professional Rescuer, Preventing Disease Transmission, and Waterpark and Waterfront Lifeguarding.
SWIM LESSONS
Only the American Red Cross offers six comprehensive course levels that teach participants how to swim skillfully and safely. The prerequisite for each level is successful demonstration of the skills taught in the preceding level. Beginners start at Level 1, which has no prerequisite.
Each level of Learn-to-Swim includes training in basic water safety and helping a swimmer in distress, in addition to the skills outlined below:
Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills
Purpose: Help students feel comfortable in the water.
- Basic water safety rules
- Using a life jacket
- Submerging mouth, nose and eyes
- Opening eyes underwater and picking up submerged object
- Swimming on front and back using arm and leg actions
- Recognizing a swimmer in distress and getting help
- Exhaling underwater
- Floating on front and back
Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills
Purpose: Give students success with fundamental skills.
- Moving in the water while wearing a life jacket
- Submerging entire head
- Front and back glide
- Treading water using arm and leg actions
- Recognizing a swimmer in distress and getting help
- Bobbing in water
- Jellyfish float
- Swimming using combined stroke on front and back
Level 3: Stroke Development
Purpose: Build on the skills in level 2 by providing additional guided practice.
- Reaching assist
- Submerging and retrieving and object
- Front and back glide
- Front and back crawl
- Kneeling or standing dive (shallow dive progression)
- Rotary breathing in horizontal position
- Survival float, back float
- Butterfly-kick and body motion
Level 4: Stroke Improvement
Purpose: Develop confidence in the strokes learned and improve other aquatic skills.
- Safe diving rules
- Dive from stride position or shallow dive
- Survival float, back float
- Elementary backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly
- Throwing assist
- Feet-first surface dive
- Front and back crawl
Level 5: Stroke Refinement
Purpose: Provide further coordination and refinement of strokes.
- Survival swimming
- Standing dive (diving progression)
- Open turns on front and back
- Front and back crawl
- Performing rescue breathing
- Tuck surface dive and pike surface dive
- Front flip turn and backstroke flip turn
- Elementary backstroke, butterfly, breaststroke, sidestroke
Level 6: Swimming and Skill Proficiency
Refines the strokes so students swim them with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances. Level 6 is designed with "menu" options. Each of these options focus on preparing students to participate in more advanced courses, such as Water Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Training. These options include:
- Personal Water Safety
- Fundamentals of Diving
- Lifeguard Readiness
- Fitness Swimmer
