Red Cross Health and Safty

Standard First Aid with CPR/AED - Adult

Recognizing and caring for injuries or sudden illnesses until advanced medical help can take over.  handling emergency situations, breathing and cardiac emergencies, adult CPR, basic precautions for preventing disease transmission, identifying and caring for life-threatening bleeding, sudden illness and injuries.  How to use an AED for victims of sudden cardiac arrest.  Meets OSHA Guidelines for First Aid.  Course Length:  6.5 hours

Target Audience:  Individuals who want or need first aid, adult CPR and AED training; employers seeking OSHA compliance in a 1-day training session.

Standard First Aid

Basic care for injuries or sudden illnesses until advanced medical care take over. Handling emergency situation; basic disease transmission precautions; recognizing and caring for bleeding, wounds, sudden illness; and immobilizing muscle, bone and joints injuries. Does not include information on breathing or cardiac emergencies. Meets OSHA Guidelines for First Aid. Course Lenght: 3.75 hours 

Target Audience: business and industry employees or individuals who or need basic first aid skills with out CPR.

CPR/AED - Adult

Recognizing and handling emergency situations, caring for breathing and cardiac emergencies, performing CPR on adults and using an AED on victims of sudden cardiac arrest until advanced medical helps is available. Basic precautions for preventing disease transmission.  Course Length: 4.5 hours

Target Audience: Business and industry or individuals who want or need CPR and AED training.

CPR/AED - Child and Infant

Preventing, recognizing and proving basic care for breathing and cardiac emergencies in infants and children under the age of 12 until advanced medical help can take over. Basic precautions for preventing disease transmission. Includes AED training for Infants and Children. Course Length: 5.5 hours

Target Audience: Employees, members of the community, civic organizations, teachers, childcare, and daycare workers, parents and grandparents.

CPR/AED - Adult, Child and Infant

 Recognizing and handling emergency situations, caring for breathing and cardiac emergencies, performing CPR on adults, children and infants and using an AED on victims of sudden cardiac arrest until advanced medical helps is available. Basic precautions for preventing disease transmission.

Target Audience:  Employees, members of the community, civic organizations, teachers, childcare workers, parents and grandparents. 

Standard First Aid with CPR/AED - Adult, Child and Infant

Recognizing and caring for injuries or sudden illnesses until advanced medical help can take over.  handling emergency situations, breathing and cardiac emergencies, adult, child and infant CPR, basic precautions for preventing disease transmission, identifying and caring for life-threatening bleeding, sudden illness and injuries.  How to use an AED for victims of sudden cardiac arrest.  Meets OSHA Guidelines for First Aid.  Course Length:  6.5 hours

Bloodborne Pathogens:  Preventing Disease Transmission

Transmission of disease, employer's exposure control plan, emergency and follow-up procedures, preventing disease transmission. Course Length: 2 hours

 Target Audience: Individuals who come in contact with infectious materials on the job.

CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer/Healthcare Provider

Recognizing and caring for breathing and cardiac emergencies, two rescuer CPR, use of resuscitation mask and bag-valve-mask resuscitator. Also, knowledge and skills need to care for victims of sudden cardiac arrest through use of an AED. Course Length: 7.5 hours

 Target Audience: Public safety personnel; lifeguards; emergency response team members; first aid station workers; students at police; fire and rescue academies; health care professionals and athletic trainers.

Babysitter's Training

Basic childcare skills to care for infants through school-aged children. First Aid, safety issues and injury prevention. Course Length: 8-11 hours

Target Audience: young people 11-15 years old who want the knowledge, skills and confidence to care for infants through school-aged children. 

 Learn-to-Swim (Levels 1-6)

Broad range of swimming for all ages- six levels to complete to achieve full competency and safety in the water.

Target Audience: Children, adults.  Course Length: Varies

Level 1 - Introduction to Water Skills. Helps students feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely.  Skills include submerging the mouth, nose, and eyes, and floating on front and back.  Level 1 participants receive a Raffy Learns to Swim full-color booklet that reinforces learning and provides parents with additional information about their child's progress.

Level 2 - Fundamental Aquatic Skills. Gives students success with fundamental skills.  Skills include rolling over from front to back and back to front, and treading water using arm and leg motions.  Level 2 participants receive a Raffy Learns to Swim full-color booklet that reinforces learning and provides parents with additional information about their child's progress.

Level 3 - Stroke Development. Builds on the skills learned in Level 2 by providing additional guided practice.  Level 3 participants receive a Waddles in the Deep full-color booklet that reinforces class instruction to help swimmers develop confidence in their strokes and to improve other aquatic skills.  Level 3 skills include using Check-Call-Care in an emergency, and submerging and retrieving objects from the pool bottom.

Level 4 - Stroke Improvement. Develops confidence in the strokes learned and to improve other aquatic skills.  Level 4 participants receive a Waddles in the Deep full-color booklet that reinforces class instruction to help swimmers develop confidence in their strokes and to improve other aquatic skills.  Level 4 skills include performing open turns on front and back using any stroke, and performing shallow dives or dives from a stride position.

Level 5 - Stroke Refinement. Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.  Level 5 participants will perform rescue breathing, and varying techniques of diving and swimming strokes.

Level 6 - Swimming and Skill Proficiency. Refines the strokes so students swim them with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances. Level 6 is designed with "menu" options. Each of these options focus on preparing students to participate in more advance courses, such as Water Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Training. These options include Personal Water Safety, Lifeguard Readiness, Fundamentals of Diving, and Fitness Swimming.

Water Safety Presentations

Four presentations options provide safety tips for a large variety of aquatic environments.  Taught in a classroom setting. 

Target Audience: Swimmers and non-swimmers, parents, youth organizations, camp leaders.  Course Length: 2-5 Hours

Longfellow's Whales Tales

Longfellow's WHALE Tales is targeted to children ages 5 to 12 to teach safe behavior in, on and around the water. The materials in the Longfellow's WHALE Tales K-6 Educational Packet are designed to give children an awareness of the importance of safety around the water and to help promote healthful aquatic recreation.  WHALE Tales is a popular program in many local elementary schools and child-care facilities.

Target Audience: Grades K-6.  Course Length: Varies

Lifeguarding

Ideal for facilities with traditional pools.  Professionalism, surveillance, victim recognition, equipment-based rescues, and caring for head, neck and back injuries.

Target Audience: Age 15 years and older.  Course Length: 31.25 Hours

Waterpark Lifeguarding

Ideal for waterpark environments, multi-attraction facilities and traditional pools.  Surveillance issues, recommended rules and spinal injury management for waterpark attractions.

Target Audience: Age 15 years and older.  Course Length: 33.25

Shallow Water Attendant

Ideal for facilities with shallow water attractions up to 4 feet deep such as catch basins at the foot of slides, winding rivers and kiddie pools.  Teaches surveillance, victim recognition, equipment -based rescues, and caring for head, neck and back injuries.

Target Audience: Age 15 years and older.  Course Length: 30.5

Basic Water Rescue

Basic Water Rescue is a 4-hour certification course that is targeted to public safety personnel, aquatic fitness instructors, aquatic therapists and others who work around water (it does not substitute for a Lifeguarding course). The course provides individuals the information and skills necessary to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies. It also prepares individuals for aquatic emergencies by teaching them how to protect themselves while assisting others.

Lessons to develop knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to succeed in lifegaurd training and enhance effectiveness on the job as a lifeguard.  Hours vary according to need.

Target Audience: Age 11 to 14 years.  Course Length: Varies

Aquatic Examiner Service

Evaluates a facility's safety procedures and lifeguard operations.  Choose from on-site evaluations and lifeguard training support.

Target Audience: Aquatic facility directors/management.  Course Length: N/A

The American Red Cross Aquatic Examiner Service can help aquatic facilities ensure a safe environment.  The goal is to reduce aquatic injuries by assisting lifeguards and managers to develop their own procedures to prevent and minimize the effects of accidents, recognize hazards, and respond effectively to emergencies.

For more information about the Aquatic Examiner Service or to schedule services for your facility, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it at 954.797.3833. 

First Aid and CPR/AED for the Lay Responder Instructor

Teaches instructor candidates to plan, organize and conduct Lay Responder First Aid/CPR/AED course, including First Aid/CPR/AED for the workplace, First Aid/CPR/AED for Schools and the Community, First Aid- Responding to Emergencies, Blended Learning First Aid/CPR/AED and sport Safety Training. Course Lenght: 17 hours

Target Audience: Individuals 16 years and older who possess a current Fundamentals of Instructor Training authorization, pass each section of the precourse written exam with a score of at least 80 percent, and demonstrate competence in the skills evaluation.  Course Length: 24 Hours

Trains instructor candidates to teach Lifeguard Training (include First Aid), CPR for the Professional Rescuer, Lifeguard Management, AED Essentials, Oxygen Administration for the Professional Rescuer, Bloodborne Pathogens Training and Basic Water Rescue. 

Water Safety Instructor 

Provides candidates with the training they need to plan and conduct courses within the American Red Cross Swimming and Water Safety Program.  Covers teaching progressions, course and lesson planning, recognizing common skill errors, providing corrective feedback, motor learning and hydrodynamic principles.

Target Audience: Swimmers 16 years and older.