The EMS Safety Corporate Care Training program provides you with a cost-effective, turnkey certification course for your employees. Each course is taught by a certified EMS Safety Select Instructor. Our courses are OSHA-compliant, meaning your employees will be prepared during an emergency, and you can avoid expensive fines and reduce your insurance premiums. You provide the dates and location, and EMS Safety will take care of the rest!
Courses are available for CPR, AED, First Aid, Bloodborne Pathogens, Emergency Oxygen Administration and BLS for Healthcare Providers and Professional Rescuers.
Available Corporate Care Courses
CPR & AED
2 – 4 Hours
- Adult CPR
- Child & Infant CPR (Optional)
- AED Use and Safety Precautions (CPR/AED Class)
- Adult Choking Care
- Child & Infant Choking Care (Optional)
- CPR Barriers
- Legal Issues
- Responding to an Emergency
- & Much More
BLS for Healthcare Providers
Apx. 6 Hours
- Everything Included in the CPR/AED Class
- Child & Infant CPR (Required)
- Child & Infant Choking Care (Required)
- 2-Rescuer CPR Techniques
- Using a BVM (Bag Valve Mask)
- & Much More
First Aid
4 – 5 Hours
- First Aid Assessment
- Splint, Sling, Swath (Optional)
- Medical Emergencies
- Injuries and Traumatic Emergencies
- Environmental Emergencies
- First Aid Kit Contents
- & Much More
Benefits of Employee Certification
Each employee will receive a student workbook during training and to keep as a post-class reference. Each certified employee will receive an EMS Safety certification card that is valid for 2 years from the issue date. *Bloodborne Pathogens certifications are valid for 1 year.
During the course your employees will:
- Receive hands-on training with CPR manikins, AED training units, first aid supplies and more.
- View course videos
- Have their skills reviewed and tested one-on-one with the instructor
- Complete a written exam, if required by your industry
- Learn valuable life-saving skills to use at work, at home and in the community.
Workplace Statistics & Compliance
- Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States
- Early and effective bystander CPR can double or triple a victim’s chance at survival. [i]
- Only 32% of SCA victims receive bystander CPR [i]
- The chance of survival is reduced by 7 – 10% with every minute that passes without a shock from an AED [i]
- Less than 3 minutes from drop to shock when AED use is most successful
- 1,250,000 new or recurrent heart attacks in the United States each year
- 800,000 strokes in the United States each year.
- Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is present in almost 90% of adult cardiac arrest; the only way to stop VF is with a defibrillator [i]
- About 10,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur at work in the United States each year [ii]
- Waiting for the arrival of emergency medical system (EMS) personnel results in only 5-7% survival [ii]
- 4383 workers were killed on the job in 2012 – 3.2 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers – on average, more than 84 a week or nearly 12 deaths every day [iii]
- 61 million Americans have cardiovascular disease, resulting in approximately 1 million deaths per year. One-third of these deaths are due to cardiac arrest [iv]
- In 1999 and 2000, 815 out of 6,339 (13%) workplace fatalities reported to OSHA were due to sudden cardiac arrest [iv]
[i] World Wide Web; American Heart Association Website, “CPR & Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) Fact Sheet;http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/CPRAndECC/WhatisCPR/CPRFactsandStats/CPR-Statistics_UCM_307542_Article.jsp; accessed 03-13-2013
[ii] Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA) – https://www.osha.gov/Publications/3185.html
[iii] Occupation Safety Health Administration (OSHA) – https://www.osha.gov/oshstats/commonstats.html
[iv] Occupation Safety Health Administration (OSHA) – https://www.osha.gov/dts/tib/tib_data/tib20011217.html