SWTU is looking for members who frequently 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. Accidents sometimes 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. The location yet to be determined. Likely a hotel meeting room, or somewhere similar, in Madison.

Please sign up at this link. Or if you have trouble with that please email Josh Reilly SWTU Secretary at jreilly.swtu@gmail.com.

This training has a limit of 12 participants; 6 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.

If there is more interest than the 12 spots available in this initial training course, SWTU can contract another training session if there is enough interest. If we get a good number of workday volunteers trained, ideally then no one would have to manage an emergency alone, there would always be at least a couple of volunteers there to share the responsibility.