EMS Safety

NAEMT’s EMS Safety course promotes a safety culture and helps reduce the number of on-the-job fatalities and injuries.

Topics Includes:

• Applying crew resource management in EMS
• Using situational awareness and defensive driving for safe emergency vehicle operations
• Employing multiagency preplanning, vehicle and practitioner visibility techniques, and defensive staging practices at roadside incidents
• Using lift assist teams, lifting and moving equipment, and behavioral controls to protect both EMS practitioners and patients from injury.
• Employing situational awareness to assess for the potential of violence on the scene continually, and verbal and physical techniques to deescalate potential threats.
• Practicing infection and contagion control to protect both EMS practitioners and patients from emerging threats
• Strengthening resiliency skills to help EMS practitioners cope with daily and critical incident stress
• Ensuring personal readiness for the daily challenges and hazards of working in the field through optimal personal health

EMS Safety is offered as an 8-hour classroom course and is appropriate for all levels of EMS practitioners, other medical professionals who provide prehospital patient care, and EMS supervisors and administrators