Mental Health First Aid
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Great Plains College has partnered with Opening Minds to offer the Mental Health First Aid Standard course. Opening Minds is a not-for-profit organization whose focus is on providing training and knowledge to talk about mental health and reduce stigma surrounding mental illness.
Opening Minds was created by the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) and is leading the effort to eradicate stigma associated with mental health.
CSO (Common Safety Orientation) is a two-hour online course from Energy Safety Canada. It is the standard general safety orientation for all workers in the Oil and Gas industry. As an Authorized Training Provider through Energy Safety Canada we are offering the use of our facility's computer lab for students to take the course. Our computer lab is a professional learning environment that has been approved as meeting the technical requirements of this course.
The course covers legislation, safety measures and best practices. It includes the selection and safe use of fall prevention, work positioning and fall arrest systems. It additionally includes fall hazard identification, fall protection planning and discussion on fall effects and fall rescue. Participants will engage in hands-on training. Participants must pass both a written and a practical-skills exam to obtain a certificate of successful course completion. As part of the practical exam, each participant will be briefly suspended in a harness.
Blended Learning method combines online learning and face-to-face instruction to achieve a Standard First Aid and CPR/AED certification. This can be done at your own pace and when you have the free time, over several days or all one day – whatever you prefer; but needs to be completed within a 6-week window of the classroom portion.
Building on the skills you learned in Personal Care 1, you will become skilled at assisting clients in meeting personal care needs. You will study grooming and dressing, foot and nail care, and elimination care.
You will study grooming and dressing, foot and nail care, and elimination care.
You will have the opportunity to become skilled at assisting clients in meeting personal care needs. You will study infection control, body mechanics, bed making, positioning clients, range of motion, oral care, and assisting to feed clients.
You will participate in activities to move and position clients/objects in health care settings using minimal physical effort and maximizing the use of mechanical aids and equipment. The course focuses on client/caregiver safety. You will receive a Transferring Lifting Repositioning (TLR®) © certificate from Saskatchewan Association for Safe Workplaces in Health (SASWH) upon successfully completing the course.
You will participate in professional assault response training to provide you with defensive and preventive skills. Upon successfully completing the course, you will receive a Professional Assault Response Training (PART) © certificate from Saskatchewan Association for Safe Workplaces in Health (SASWH).
You will learn sanitary food handling techniques that reduce the risk of food poisoning.
Attention industry employers: Revisions to Sask. Occupational Health & Safety Regulations have resulted in a new requirement to Fit Test your employees who will or may be required to use SCBA or SABA in the workplace.
7-3(1)(iv) if a tight fit is essential to ensure the worker is not exposed to one or more airborne contaminants to an extent that may pose a risk of significant harm to the worker, has been fit‑tested by a competent person in an approved manner;