Ems Safety Course Manual

Download or read book EMS Safety Course Manual written by National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The EMS Safety course is designed to promote a culture of safety and to help reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries. It trains EMS practitioners to be active participants in their own safety. Participants are taught to identify and remove the hazards that can appear during daily tasks, from offensive drivers to violent encounters to chronic stress. Participants are given practical strategies that they can apply in the field, from situational awareness to defensive driving to verbal deflection. Finally, participants are taught how to strengthen their resiliency skills in order to combat both chronic and critical incident stress"--