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Good for another year
Mar. 8th, 2008 06:47 pmI took the 8 hour course and re-upped my CPR training for another year. Adult+child+infant CPR, rescue breathing, choking, etc.
The company I work for will train any employee for free, and the will also allow any employee to sponsor any other single person to get totally free Red Cross CPR+first aid training. Our local RC chapter checked with regional and they checked with national, and nobody's ever heard of a company that pays for the training of non-employees. We may be the only company that does it. We have 180 out of 800 employees trained in CPR+first aid, which is an astoundingly high number for a company that isn't in an industry that requires anyone to be trained.
The guy who runs the training is trying to talk the company into doing the Professional Rescuer CPR course, which is an additional 9 hour course once a year and is basically just more hardcore CPR, with using more kinds of equipment and able to recognize more situations, such as different kinds of shock, etc and how to handle them. That would be cool. We'd probably have to pay for the course materials, but it's only $30. I think this is the basic CPR course that people like cops get.
I need to find someone in the area that will take advantage of the training. I hate to just let it go to waste, and the classes generally aren't full (employees get first spots). We had 3 empty spots in the class today.
The company I work for will train any employee for free, and the will also allow any employee to sponsor any other single person to get totally free Red Cross CPR+first aid training. Our local RC chapter checked with regional and they checked with national, and nobody's ever heard of a company that pays for the training of non-employees. We may be the only company that does it. We have 180 out of 800 employees trained in CPR+first aid, which is an astoundingly high number for a company that isn't in an industry that requires anyone to be trained.
The guy who runs the training is trying to talk the company into doing the Professional Rescuer CPR course, which is an additional 9 hour course once a year and is basically just more hardcore CPR, with using more kinds of equipment and able to recognize more situations, such as different kinds of shock, etc and how to handle them. That would be cool. We'd probably have to pay for the course materials, but it's only $30. I think this is the basic CPR course that people like cops get.
I need to find someone in the area that will take advantage of the training. I hate to just let it go to waste, and the classes generally aren't full (employees get first spots). We had 3 empty spots in the class today.
