TRAINING AIDS
TEAM TREATMENT, a new video training program from Emergency Medical Update, is designed to familiarize basic life support responders with advanced life support equipment and procedures, enabling them to work side by side with paramedics. The program teaches BLS personnel how to report assessment information, ready airway equipment, prepare IV lines, and place electrodes. Contact: Lockert-Jackson and Associates, Inc.; P.O. Box 11380; Bainbridge Island, WA 98110-5380; (206) 842-8454.
A four-color poster from Survivair shows in 15 photographs with corresponding written instructions how to don the Mark 2® self-contained breathing apparatus. Contact: Survivair; 3001 S. Susan St.; Santa Ana, CA 92704; (800) 821-7236.
Lab Safety Supply’s RESPIRATOR PROGRAM hinder explains OSHA’s respiratory standard (29 CFR 1910.134), enabling those responsible for compliance to set up a new or improve an existing program. The hinder includes a sample written program, a program evaluation checklist, a respirator selection guide, and a sample inspection record. Contact: Lab Safety Supply; P.O. Box 1368; Janesville, WI 53547-1368; (8(H)) 356-2855.
Media Resources, Inc., has released a video training program in its HAZARDOUS MATERIALS-OPERATIONS series. Analyzing the Incident is designed to help train firefighters and operations-level personnel according to standards set by the Occupational Safety and Health Association, the Department of Transportation, and the National Fire Protection Association. Contact: Media Resources, Inc.; 2614 Fort Vancouver Way; Vancouver, WA 98661-3997.
Factory Mutual Engineering and “Research’s new PREFIRE PLANNING FOR SPRINKLERED BUILDINGS KIT is designed to be used for an instructor-led workshop that walks , participants through developing a prefire plan at a sprinklered facility. It includes a workshop manual, a sample plan, and one set of instructor overhead transparencies. Contact: Gary Keit, FMF&R, 617) 255-4202.
