After completing this course learners will be able to identify heat related hazards, types of heat illnesses (heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heat rash, etc.), symptoms and treatment of heat related illnesses and how to protect against heat stress.
In this course, employees learn how to identify noise hazards that could damage hearing, factors that determine the extent of hearing loss, when hearing protection is required, and steps to take to reduce potential hearing damage.
The hands are involved in almost everything a worker does. To prevent injuries workers must be able to identify hand hazards, understand how to prevent hand injuries, and know the different types of hand protection and when to use them.
Employees will be able to recognize different types of tools, including manual, electric, pneumatic, hydraulic, liquid-fueled, powder-actuated, and abrasive wheel tools, identify hazards of use, and recall safe work procedures for each type of tool.
Upon completion, learners will be able to recall how to properly leave a forklift after use, general rules for safe operation, and what to do in a fall or tip over.
This course covers safe driving practices for forklift safely, including how to recognize hazardous driving conditions, safe practices for working around pedestrians, and safe work practices on loading docks.
Upon completion, learners will be able to describe procedures for safe load handling, including how to safely pick up, travel with, unload and stack a load, including the safest way to travel up and down ramps with or without a load.
Forklift tip-overs and unstable loads are dangerous. This course covers forklift stability and capacity principles, the stability triangle and its importance in safe operation, and other principles of safe forklift operation.
Before operating a forklift, it is essential that operators know the basics about forklift safety and operating. Part one in a six-part program covers the fundamentals of operating a forklift.
This course covers how to respond to trauma related soft tissue emergencies including cuts, puncture wounds and impaled objects injuries, burn injuries and electrical injuries.
This course identifies how to respond to musculoskeletal injuries, including fractures, sprains, joint dislocations, and injuries to the head, neck and spine.
The purpose of this course is to educate employees on how to appropriately respond to medical emergencies such as respiratory distress, diabetes, hypoglycemia, seizures, fainting and stroke.
After completing this course, learners will be able to recognize and respond to poisoning, chemical splashes, hot and cold emergencies and other environmental emergencies.
Knowing how to respond appropriately when an injury happens, with Basic First Aid, could be the difference between life and death. This course covers response to common first aid emergencies, such as breathing emergencies and broken bones.
After completion, learners will be able to define distracted driving, describe why drivers take driving risks, identify three types of distracted driving, describe the consequences of distracted driving, and identify techniques for driving safely. (Spanish)
Knowing how to perform CPR could be the difference between life and death. This course covers how to respond to a cardiac or respiratory emergency using CPR or abdominal thrusts and tips on CPR safety for youth.
The goal of the course is to create awareness of the hazards inherent to working in cold environments. Additionally, the course identifies the nature, symptoms and treatment of cold stresses and precautions employees should take to protect themselves.
Upon completion, learners will be able to identify characteristics, examples, and hazards of confined spaces, differences between permit-required and non-permit-required confined spaces, and requirements of a permit-required confined space entry program.
The goal of the course is to create awareness of the hazards inherent to working in cold environments. Additionally, the course identifies the nature, symptoms and treatment of cold stresses and precautions employees should take to protect themselves.
The purpose of this course is to enable CMV drivers to recognize undesirable driving behaviors, hazardous conditions, safe driver responsibilities, desired driving behaviors, and how to respond to potential roadway hazards.
This course teaches employees how to identify common bloodborne pathogens in the workplace, how they are transmitted, engineering and work practice controls used to prevent contact with, and infection from, body fluids, and what to do if exposure occurs.
By the end of this lesson employees will know types of respiratory hazards and possible health effects, ways to minimize or eliminate hazards, qualifications for respirator use, types of respirators, selecting the right one, and proper respirator care.