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ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY PROGRAMS

Blood-borne Pathogens Training
Building Evacuation Drills (fire drills)
Confined Space Training

Damage Assessment
Earthquake Survival Program
Floor Warden Operations-Sweep/Evacuation Training
MCI-Multi Casualty Incident (Triage) Program

Search & Rescue Training


BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGEN TRAINING

This program provides the following training:

  • OSHA annual requirement 1910.1030(g)(2)(i) through (ix)
  • Explanation of your Exposure Control Plan
  • Basic review of common symptoms of bloodborne diseases
  • Review of the modes of transmission of bloodborne pathogens
  • Explanation of the appropriate methods for recognizing tasks and other activities that may involve exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials
  • Review and practice of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE)
  • Information on vaccinations
  • Pre, during and post exposure
  • Review of common signs, labels and coding
  • Video presentation with follow-up questions and answers
  • Information booklet for each student

Program Length

  • 1 hour

Cost: Stand-alone

  • 1-20 students $345.00
  • Plus $6.00 per student for booklets and materials

BUILDING EVACUATION DRILL (fire drill) Two Types Of Programs

Program One: Building Evacuation Drill is a "live" building dump. We will assist you in targeting your goals and benchmarking and evaluating the results. Life Safety will provide the appropriate staff necessary for a successful building evacuation.

Program Two: Building Evacuation Floor Warden Overview and/or refresher; on teaching personnel in the proper techniques for ensuring a timely, thorough and safe evacuation of a building.

Drill Length
  • 30 minutes to four hours base on the complexity and population of your site. An example; a two story building with approximate square footage of < 100,000 sq. ft. and a population < 300 will dump (if properly trained) and be back at their work stations within 20-30 minutes. Life Safety will follow this up with a critique and debriefing for the Floor Wardens (see below for details).
Cost
  • 1-2 hours drill with one instructor $398.00, with two instructors $498.00

 

CONFINED SPACE TRAINING

Our training programs are developed to fully comply with the U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA rule 29 CFR 1910.146.

The course lengths for the following descriptions are approximations and depend on your site-specific needs and previous training.

CONFINED SPACE AWARENESS
This 4-hour course is designed for anyone who works around confined spaces and all emergency responders. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to identify a confined space and understand its associated hazards. This program is a must for any employer with confined spaces on site or whose employees may encounter confined spaces during their normal course of employment.

Program Length

  • 4 hours

Cost

  • 1-12 students $1130.00
  • 13-20 students $1695.00
  • Plus $10.00 per student for booklets and materials

CONFINED SPACE ENTRY
During this 8-hour program participants will learn the proper procedures for making entry into Permit Required Confined Spaces. This program of instruction will prepare the participant to operate in the capacity of Entrant, Attendant or Entry Supervisor during confined space operations. Participants will become familiar with CFR 1910.146 and how to properly employ the permit program. This course is a combination of classroom instruction and practical application in actual permit spaces utilizing the appropriate personal protective equipment, meters and ventilation. This course of instruction is required by OSHA before an employee can enter a Permit Required Confined Space. Special emphasis is put on safety and non-entry rescue.

Program Length

  • 8 hours

Cost

  • 1-12 students $2490.00
  • 13-20 students $3735.00
  • Plus $14.00 per student for booklets and materials

CONFINED SPACE ENTRY REFRESHER
During this 4-hour program participants will review the proper procedures for making entry into Permit Required Confined Spaces. This program of instruction will refresh the participant knowledge to operate in the capacity of Entrant, Attendant or Entry Supervisor during confined space operations. Participants will review CFR 1910.146 regulations and how to properly employ the permit program. This course is a combination of classroom review and practical application in actual permit spaces utilizing the appropriate personal protective equipment, meters and ventilation. This course of instruction is required by OSHA before an employee can enter a Permit Required Confined Space. It is recommended annually. Special emphasis is put on safety and non-entry rescue.

Prerequisite: Successfully completed a  formal 8-hour Confined Space Entry program or greater within the past 12 months.  

Program Length

  • 4 hours

Cost

  • 1-12 students $1130.00
  • 13-20 students $1695.00
  • Plus $6.00 per student for booklets and materials as needed.

 

CONFINED SPACE RESCUE
A 16-hour course for anyone who during the course of their employment is expected to make rescues from confined spaces. This course is a combination of part classroom with emphasis on hands-on scenarios in actual confined spaces. The program content is easily modified to meet your needs

Program Length

  • 16 hours

Cost

  • 1-12 students $4965.00
  • 13-20 students $7450.00
  • Plus $22.00 per student for booklets and materials

DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

This program provides the following training:

  • Intro to the basics of Damage Assessment - What you can and can't do!
  • Structural and nonstructural safety
  • What to do before, during & after an event
  • Inspection procedures
  • Preliminary evaluation criteria
  • Common reporting codes 
  • Order of inspection - List
  • If and when to reoccupy the building

Program Length

  • 4 hours

Cost

  • 1-12 students $865.00
  • 13-20 students $1298.00
  • Plus $8.00 per student for booklets and materials

EARTHQUAKE SURVIVAL PROGRAM

"The Reality of an Earthquake": What you can do and what you can't do. A plan of action on "expecting the unexpected," what to do before, during and after an earthquake.

This program provides the following training and materials:

  • How to prepare for an earthquake
  • What to do when an earthquake hits and where to go in the aftermath, no matter where you are
  • Showing of the WIDELY-acclaimed KCET video on how to get through a massive earthquake in one piece
  • Handouts

An actual gas meter and common earthquake supplies are available for a bit of hands-on.

Program Length
Cost
  • Unlimited enrollment $385.00
  • Handouts and checklists at no additional cost

FLOOR WARDEN OPERATIONS--SWEEP/EVACUATION TRAINING

Instruct key personnel in the proper techniques for ensuring a timely, thorough and safe evacuation of a building.

All program content will be within the guidelines and standards of your local fire agency.

This program provides the following training and materials:

  • Prevention & preparedness
  • Reasons & causes for evacuation
  • Shelter-In-Place
  • Evacuation conditions
  • Assembly areas & employee accountability
  • Psychological considerations
  • How to deal with physically limited (buddy system), injured and hostile employees
  • Notification of evacuation
  • Evacuation procedures for you and your employees
  • Once outside - now what?
  • Specific considerations for natural disasters
  • Supervisor responsibilities 
  • Instruction on how to use surrounding resources
  • Booklets, DVDs, Power Point, building size-up evaluation
Program Length
  • 2 - hours, additional time may be need based on your risk potential and other requirements
Cost
  • 1-12 students $398.00 
  • 13-20 students $595.00
  • Plus $6.00 per student for booklets and materials

MULTI-CASUALTY INCIDENT (TRIAGE) PROGRAMS

Disaster: When resources are outweighed by the event...

The purpose of Triage is to salvage the greatest possible number of patients. All rules about saving lives on a one-to-one basis (one rescuer versus one patient) go out the window in a Multi Casualty Incident (MCI).

75% of the Triage programs are hands-on. The beginning 25% is devoted to lecture and a video presentation. START (Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment) is the MCI protocol the nine Bay Area Counties use and is the same basis of information our programs deliver to your employees. These programs are not logically difficult and are emotionally intense.

Each student will complete the program charged up with an incredible amount of simple and effective tools to deal with an MCI. Each will go through several live scenarios with multiple victims to ensure understanding. We provide several "victims," each moulaged (stage makeup) to represent the real thing.

Videotape critiquing is provided, as time allows.

Three different formats are available:

  • Triage 102: 2 hour program, recommended for ERT members.
  • Triage 103: 3 hour program, recommended for the lay person with very little or no emergency medical knowledge.
  • Triage 104: 4 hour program, recommended for the lay person with very little or no emergency medical knowledge and needing addtional hands-on practice.
Program Length
  • 2, 3 and 4 hour formats available
  • Multiple formats provided to complement your time and cost constraints, as well as student experience and end goals, call 408.573.1900 or E-Mail for recommendations
Cost - 2-hour format
  • 1-12 students $398.00 
  • 13-20 students $595.00
  • Plus $6.00 per student for booklets and materials
Cost - 3-hour format
  • 1-12 students $598.00
  • 13-20 students $895.00
  • Plus $6.00 per student for booklets and materials
Cost - 4-hour format
  • 1-12 students $785.00
  • 13-20 students $1175.00
  • Plus $6.00 per student for booklets and materials

Related Programs

SEARCH & RESCUE TRAINING AWARENESS OVERVIEW

This program is designed for your ERT members as an overview
and provides the following training:

  • Intro to the basics of Search and Rescue
  • Structural and nonstructural safety
  • Search and Rescue techniques and search plan
  • What to do before, during & after an event
  • Incident scene management and communication

Program Length

  • 2 hours

Cost

  • 1-20 students $468.00
  • 21-31 students $698.00
  • Plus $8.00 per student for booklets and materials

     

SEARCH & RESCUE TRAINING TYPE 4 (BASIC) OPERATIONAL LEVEL

This is a hands-on program designed as a more comprehensive awareness program for those needing SAR responder skills and includes the following training:

Personnel shall be trained in hazard recognition, equipment use and techniques required to operate safely and effectively at incidents involving non-structural entrapment.  Personnel at this level shall be competent at surface rescue that involves minimal removal of debris and building contents to extricate easily accessible victims from damaged, but non-collapsed structures.

Training at the basic level will include at minimum the following:

  • Size-up of existing and potential conditions and the identification of the resources necessary to conduct safe and effective urban search and rescue operations.

  • Process for implementing the Incident Command System (ICS).

  • Procedures for the acquisition, coordination and utilization of resources.

  • Procedures for implementing site control and scene management.

  • Identification, utilization and proper care of personal protective equipment required for operations at structural collapse or failure incidents.

  • Identification of five general construction categories, characteristics and expected behavior of each category in a collapse or failure situation.

  • Identification of four types of collapse patterns and potential victim locations.

  • Recognition of the potential for secondary collapse.

  • Recognition of the general hazards associated with a structure collapse or failure situation and the actions necessary for the safe mitigation of those hazards

  • Procedures for implementing the structure/hazard marking system.

  • Procedures for conducting searches at non-collapsed structures using appropriate methods for the type of building configuration.

  • Procedures for implementing the search marking system. 

  • Recognition and response to the emergency signaling system

  • Procedures for the extrication of easily accessible victims from non-structural entrapments involving minimal removal of debris and /or building contents.

  • Procedures for providing disaster first aid medical care to victims.

  • Members shall be trained to the Hazardous Materials First Responder Awareness Level (FRA).

  • Members shall be training in basic CPR/First Aid and if appropriate AED training.

Program Length - minimum

  • 8 hours

Cost

  • 1-20 students $2490.00
  • 21-31 students $3735.00
  • Plus $12.00 per student for booklets and materials

Program Length - recommended

  • 12 hours

Cost

  • 1-20 students $3595.00
  • 21-31 students $5395.00
  • Plus $12.00 per student for booklets and materials

 

SEARCH & RESCUE TRAINING TYPE 3 (LIGHT) OPERATIONAL LEVEL

Personnel shall meet all SAR Type-4 (Basic) level training requirements.  In addition, personnel shall be trained in hazard recognition, equipment use and techniques required to operate safely and effectively at structural collapse incidents involving the collapse or failure of Light Frame Construction and low angle or one person load rope rescue as specified below:

  • Site safety, hazard assessment and personal protective equipment required for site.

  • Recognition of the building materials and structural components associated with Light Frame Construction.

  • Recognition of unstable collapse and failure zones of Light Frame Construction.

  • Recognition of collapse patterns and probable victim locations associated with Light Frame Construction.

  • Procedures for implementing the emergency signaling system.

Personnel shall have an awareness of the resources and the ability to perform search operations intended to locate victims who are not readily visible and who are trapped inside and beneath debris of Light Frame Construction.  Training should include but not be limited to the following: 

  • Conducting non-technical searches.

  • Procedures for implementing the victim marking system.
     

Personnel shall be trained in the procedures for performing access operations intended to reach victims trapped inside and beneath debris associated with Light Frame Construction.  Training should include but not be limited to the following:

  • Lifting techniques to safely and efficiently lift structural components of walls, floors or roofs.

  • Develop and communicate a shoring plan. Safely and efficiently construct temporary structures needed to stabilize and support structural components to prevent movement of walls, floors or roofs.

  • Breaching techniques to safely and efficiently create openings in structural components of walls, floors or roofs.

  • Operating appropriate tools and equipment to safely and efficiently accomplish the above tasks.

Personnel shall be trained in the procedures for performing extrication operations involving packaging, treatment and removal of victims trapped inside and beneath debris associated with Light Frame Construction. Training should include but not be limited to the following:

  • Packaging victims within confined areas.

  • Removing victims from elevated or below grade areas. 

  • Providing medical treatment to victims at a minimum to the Basic Life Support (BLS) level.

  • Operating appropriate tools and equipment to safely and efficiently accomplish the above tasks.


Personnel shall be trained in the procedures for performing low angle or one-person load rope rescue involving accessing, packaging, treating, and removing victims.  Training should include but not be limited to the following:

  • Rope system anchors

  • Evacuation litters

  • Rescuer and patient packaging

  • Lowering and raising systems

  • Mechanical advantage systems

Program Length - minimum

  • 16 hours

Cost

  • 1-12 students $4965.00
  • Plus $12.00 per student for booklets and materials
  • Additional material fees may apply based on what your site has on hand
     

Program Length - recommended

  • 24 hours

Cost

  • 1-12 students $6995.00
  • Plus $12.00 per student for booklets and materials
  • Additional material fees may apply based on what your site has on hand