Environmental, Health and Safety Services

First Aid

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Applies to:

First aid training is required for some industries by OSHA regulations and/or state licensing requirements, including but not limited to:

  • Logging operations
  • Telecommunications
  • Electrical power generation, transmission, and distribution
  • Scuba diving operations
  • Shipping, maritime, long shoring
  • Child care facilities
  • Adult care facilities
  • Construction sites

Other personnel may have to be trained in first aid based upon job hazards, duties, or location (e.g "remote" locations), including but not limited to:

  • Confined space attendants
  • Designated confined space rescue personnel
  • Electricians
  • Miners
  • College farms
  • Center for Power Electronics Systems
  • Fisheries and Wildlife researchers

Personnel wishing to take a first aid class, but have no work-related requirement for it, may make arrangements with EHSS to pay for participant manuals and schedule personnel for training provided there are open slots available for the date/time selected.

  • There will be a $17.00 charge (per participant, effective 8/28/09) to the department for the first aid class.
  • There will be a $35.00 charge (per participant, effective 8/28/09) to the department for the First Aid/CPR/AED class.

Please make arrangements with the Training Coordinator.

Requirements

Personnel must attend classroom first aid training, demonstrate the required skills, and successfully pass the written exam in order to be certified. EHSS offers classes in adult and pediatric first aid. Certification is offered through the National Safety Counsel and is valid for a maximum of three years. For those employees with a work-related requirement for first aid and CPR training, EHSS will certify for two years on both to keep refresher training on the same cycle. A card will be issued to anyone successfully completing the course. For more information or to register for a class, contact EHSS at 231-8759.