SWTU is looking for people who attend work days and other chapter activities to learn some First Aid and Emergency Care. SWTU is offering an Adult First Aid/CPR/AED certification training with life threatening bleeding tourniquet application, taught by the Red Cross.

We work in some rather remote locations, far from emergency services, on challenging terrain and with dangerous equipment. Luckily we haven’t had any accidents, but accidents can happen despite how careful we are or a volunteer could have a medical emergency during a workday. Hopefully neither of these things ever happen, but SWTU plans to be prepared.

The training includes about 3 hours of online instruction at your own pace that must be completed prior to the in-person training session. The in-person training is 2.5 hours of hands-on classroom instruction. The in-person training will take place on Wednesday June 3rd at 6 pm at the Fitchburg Community Center, in their “Fitchburg”room on the upper level.

This training has a limit of 12 participants; 7 workday volunteers have already signed up. This is first come, so if for some reason you can’t attend after signing up, please email Josh Reilly ASAP so that we can fill your spot. SWTU will cover the cost of this training.

If we have more than 12 interested workday participants for the class, we should be able to increase our class size by requesting an additional instructor.

Sign-up for First aid/CPR/AED with life threatening bleeding Red Cross Training