EMS Safety teaches students how to protect themselves and their patients while on the job. The course promotes a culture of safety and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. 

 

EMS Safety is the only national, comprehensive safety course for EMS practitioners. Its interactive format features real-life case studies and compelling discussions on current safety issues and provides participants with a forum to share their own experiences. Critical thinking stations help build participants’ risk assessment and decision-making skills. 

 

EMS Safety is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners, other medical professionals providing prehospital patient care, and EMS supervisors and administrators. 

 

Topics covered include: 

 

• Crew resource management in EMS 

• Situational awareness and defensive driving for safe emergency vehicle operations 

• Multi-agency pre-planning, vehicle and practitioner visibility techniques, and defensive staging practices at roadside incidents 

• Lift assist teams, lifting and moving equipment, and behavioral controls for EMS practitioner and patient injury protection 

• Situational awareness for scene safety, verbal and physical techniques to deescalate potential threats. 

• Infection and contagion control to protect both EMS practitioners and patients from emerging threats 

• Resiliency skills to help EMS practitioners cope with daily and critical incident stress 

• Personal readiness for the daily challenges and hazards of working in the field through optimal personal health.