Preparing Professional Rescuers

Our professional rescuer courses are designed for people with job-related duties in emergency preparedness and response. This includes nurses, law enforcement and EMS personnel, fire fighters, business and industry response teams, lifeguards, flight attendants, and others who must take action in emergency situations.

Berkshire Red Cross Massachusetts First Responder Training is a brand new program meeting the training requirements for professional paid and volunteer first responders in Berkshire County. It will meet or exceed Massachusetts requirements for first responder training. Scheduled for release in the Fall of 2008. Contact the chapter health and safety department for more information on this exciting new training program.

Emergency Medical Response is a brand new course top of the line professional rescuer first aid, CPR and AED program scheduled for release in 2010.

CPR for the Professional Rescuer teaches students to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants, use an AED on an adult or child victim of cardiac arrest and use personal protective equipment to stop bloodborne pathogens and other diseases from spreading.

Administering Emergency Oxygen gives participants the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to a victim of a breathing emergency using breathing devices, including resuscitation masks, bag-valve-mask resuscitators (BVMs) and emergency oxygen.

Preventing Disease Transmission. A two-hour training module for employers and employees who, while on the job, may be exposed to blood or other body fluids that could cause infection. Employers may offer this program as part of their compliance with OSHA regulations.

For more information on these programs contact the Berkshire Red Cross health and safety department at (413) 442-1506.

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