Program Offerings for 2008/2009

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The following are the current course selections being offered by Extrication.Com by extrication skill levels. We set the standard that others follow.

 Basic Extrication Skills         

Requisite: None, no prior experience is necessary.  Any emergency responder (fire, police, EMS,  candidate in training or tow operator desiring to cross train) may attend. We will be using a special version of  Len Watson's basic skills manual expressly licensed to Extrication.Com. All student handouts are now copied on CDs.

  1. 16-hour "Vehicle Extrication: Basic Skills"
    This program has no prerequisite and is designed to exceed TERC and NFPA Fire Fighter II standards for vehicle extrication at the basic skills level. The Basic Skills program has been granted 16-hours EMT CEUs (basic-paramedic) by the MA OEMS. This program is intended for entry level responder as well as those that have not had a formal extrication program in three or more years.      
  2. 8-hour "Vehicle Extrication: Basic Skills Review"
    This program is approved for 8-hours EMT CEUs (basic-paramedic) by the MA OEMS.     The program is targeted for those responders who have had a formal basic skills training program and would like to attend a limited classroom session and sharpen their practical skills. Extrication.Com suggests all responders attend a basic review program each year between attending a more formal 16-hour program.

Intermediate Extrication Skills
Requisite: None, however it is suggested that attendees take the basic skills prior to attending. These programs start where the basic skills have left off. Technology has changed by leaps and bounds in the last decade. It is impossible to cover all the new vehicle innovations a responder needs to know in a 16-hour basic skills program. Responders will see new techniques that are taught in this skills level developed exclusively by Extrication.Com that are not covered in basic skills programs. 
 

  1. 2-hour Hybrid Safety & Awareness  
    Hybrids should be respected, but NOT feared! Many presenters are capitalizing on responder's fear and not explaining how to cope with there concerns. Since 2001 Extrication.Com has been the sole emergency service consultant for Toyota, the leading hybrid manufacturer. Together with a Toyota alternative fuel vehicle engineer, Extrication.Com has co-written all Toyota-Lexus ERGs.

    Extrication.Com has helped the industry recognize the importance of providing accurate and relevant information needed for incidents involving hybrids and other type vehicles; such as hydrogen fuel cell and electric vehicles. The industry has done their part by providing emergency responder guides for ERGs for all the hybrids. Its now the emergency services position to see that the responders are properly trained to respond, and with out fear.

    This program will address hybrid vehicle safety issues from a responders point of view for the following:
            -Fire
            -Spills
            -First Aid (NiMH exposures)
            -Extrication
            -Submersion

    Myths & Truths, hazards and simple generic procedures will be discussed instructing the responder how to safely operate at the scene of an incident involving a hybrid. This program is open to all responders including tow personnel, law enforcement and other personnel that may respond to an incident involving a hybrid vehicle. All attendees will be receive a copy of the "Toyota-Lexus Hybrid Safety Training Program" (instructor guide, sampling of Toyota/Lexus ERGs, student handouts and slide show) for their agency as part of the handouts courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales of U.S.
     
  2. 4-hour "Vehicle Extrication: New Vehicle Technology"
    The NT program approved for 4-hours EMT CEUs (basic-paramedic) by the MA OEMS. This program starts where the basic skills programs leave off. Students will learn how to cope with new vehicle safety innovations to safely mitigate a vehicle rescue. The program was designed to present multiple NT programs in one day or to allow call and volunteer departments having evenings programs a condensed version of our 8-hour NT program. No pre-requisites, however it is suggested that attendees have a basic skills background.

             Advanced SRS training
             ROPS/RPS
             Crash Theory
             Innovative Vehicle Features
             Electric, Hybrid (gas/diesel-electric) and Fuel Cell Vehicles
             Alternative Extrication Techniques such as the Modified Dash Roll

    Unless requested, the 4-hour New Vehicle Technology program does not include any hands-on session.
     
  3. 8-hours "Vehicle Extrication: New Vehicle Technology" (with hands-on) Intermediate Skills.
    The 8-hour NT course is our most popular training program and has been     approved for 8-hours EMT CEUs (basic-paramedic) by the MA OEMS. This program will address new vehicle innovations, propulsion systems (pure electric, hybrid and fuel cell technology) passive/active safety systems and suggestions on how to cope with innovative vehicles to safely mitigate a modern vehicle rescue. This program is similar to the 4-hour program, except that it expends to 5-hours of classroom lecture with 3-hours of hand-on practical.

    Program structure is flexible to meet the demands of the host department. When included as an option by the host agency, a limited practical session will demonstrate how to perform Extrication.Com's Modified Dash Roll. This is the most radical change in extrication techniques since the seventies. It can be used to reduce dashboard entrapments from the average of 15-30 minutes to 4-6 minutes or less! The technique is now used by military Special Forces for rapid intervention as well as civilian emergency services for various applications.

    This program is open to all responders including tow personnel, law enforcement and other personnel that may respond to an incident involving a hybrid vehicle. All attendees will be receive a copy of the "Toyota-Lexus Hybrid Safety Training Program" (instructor guide, sampling of Toyota/Lexus ERGs, student handouts and slide show) for their agency as part of the handouts courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales of U.S.

Advanced Extrication Skills
The heavy truck and bus programs are advanced extrication programs requiring students attend a formal 16-hour basic skills program prior to attending the program, without exception. Extrication.Com does not just cut the prop vehicles up, we structure the hands-on sessions around surrealistic crash evolutions that the students may encounter while on duty. Truck and bus prop vehicles will setup using passenger vehicles to make the most challenging evolutions with a higher degree of risk. For this reason Extrication.Com reserves the right to limit participants who in our opinion have not met the basic skills of extrication or elect to stop the program and review the necessary techniques before advancing into the more complex scenarios for safety and liability reasons. All advanced extrication programs been approved for their respective hours of EMT CEUs (basic-paramedic) by the MA OEMS.
 

  1. 8-hour "Advanced Vehicle Extrication: Heavy Truck"
    Extrication.Com instructors will present a 2-hour classroom session explaining classifications, hazards and how to cope with big rig rescues. The 6-hour hands-on session will require the attendees to work more independently of the instructors and as teams often thinking "out of the box." The hands-on sessions are complex, often with vehicles in unusual positions when local resources and host agency allows. Must have attended a basic skills program within the last three years.
  2. 8-hour "Advanced Vehicle Extrication: School Bus"
    While the course focuses on the four classifications of school buses, commercial and handicap buses will be discussed. Similar to the truck program, the bus hands-on session will be complex and demanding requiring the attendee's skills level to be beyond that of the basic responder. Must have attended a basic skills program within the last three years.
  3. 16-hour Advanced Extrication: Heavy Truck-Bus
    This is a new program offering that was introduced in 2008, it merges both 8-hour Advanced Heavy Truck and Bus programs for a two advanced program with complex scenarios.
  4. "40-hour Basic through Advanced Extrication"
    16-hours basic skills, 8-hour New Technology, 8-hours Heavy Truck and 8-hours bus extrication. This program is designed to allow the entry level and the more seasoned responder to work together starting with 16-hours of basic skills, 8-hours of intermediate skills and 16-hours of the most advanced skills we offer. Often we find that there is a vast difference in cognitive and enabling skills between other extrication program and one presented by Extrication.Com. This program brings all the responder together to work on an equal skills level in a systematic progression of training difficulties. Extrication.Com feels this allows the student to advance at an even pace and prevents freelancing. This program starts off with the basic skills and progress to the advanced skills required for the responders to mitigate a truck and bus rescue.  There is no pre-requisite for this program since the basic skills is taught prior to the more advanced modules for this program.
     
  5. 8-hour "Advanced Vehicle Extrication: Awareness Level Heavy Farm/Construction Machinery"
  6. 8-hour "Advanced Vehicle Extrication: Operational Level Heavy Farm Machinery"
  7. 8-hour "Advanced Vehicle Extrication: Operational Level Heavy Construction Machinery"
  8. 16-hour "Advanced Vehicle Extrication: Operational Level Heavy Farm/Construction Machinery"

    Heavy Machinery Programs
    Extrication.Com is one of the few faculties that teach heavy machinery programs. These are advanced skill programs with increased risk, all participants must have attended our 40-hour program prior to attending. For responders desiring to meet the disciplines for NFPA Technical Rescue, these programs are a must. The training targets extrication for mobile/stationary, farm and construction machinery. The training is not just for rural responders, machinery is all around us and responders should prepare for an incident that can be overwhelming for the unprepared.

    We offer awareness level (non-practical) and operational level (practical) programs that include lectures, field trips, and practical evolutions.  Open enrollment programs are available in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada and Olathe, Kansas USA due to the availability of machinery and working farms that allow tours at this time. If your agency can supply props needed for these programs we would like to hear from you.

    Requisite: The Heavy Machinery programs requires the students to have the greatest degree of skills with increased risks. Attendees must have taken 16-hours basic skills, 8-hours heavy truck and 8-hours bus extrication or our 40-hour program prior to attending.

Instructor/Trainer Extrication Programs
 

  1. 24-hour Basic Skills Train the Trainer
    This program is open to instructors and sanctioned trainers only, that have attended the 40-hour Basic Through Advanced Extrication Skills program.
  2. 24-hour Hybrid Vehicle Train the Trainer
    This is a new program for 2009, and is open to instructors and sanctioned trainers only, that have attended the 40-hour Basic Through Advanced Extrication Skills program. All attendees will be receive a copy of the "Toyota-Lexus Hybrid Safety Training Program" (instructor guide, sampling of Toyota/Lexus ERGs, student handouts and slide show) for their agency as part of the handouts courtesy of Toyota Motor Sales of U.S.
  3. 40-hour New Vehicle Technology Train the Trainer
    This program is open to instructors and sanctioned trainers only, that have attended the 40-hour Basic Through Advanced Extrication Skills program.
  4. 40-hour Basic Through Advanced Extrication Skills "Train the Trainer"
    This program is new program for 2008, and open to instructors and sanctioned trainers only, that have attended the 40-hour Basic Through Advanced Extrication Skills program.
  5. 40-hour "Advanced Vehicle Extrication: Heavy Machinery Train the Trainer"
    This program is open to instructors and sanctioned trainers only, that have attended the 40-hour Basic Through Advanced Extrication Skills program. All trainers must bring a laptop computer to the class for this program.
     

Basic Skills Vehicle Extrication Lesson Plan and Video Tapes/DVDs Rentals

Many departments are suffering from the constraints of budget cutbacks and can not afford to purchase an entire up to date vehicle extrication program that meets NFPA or TERC extrication recommendations. Beginning with training year 2005-2006 Extrication.Com will offer a complete classroom basic skills DVD or video tape rental program.

How it Works
Your agency places a deposit for the cost of the lesson plan and video tapes or DVDs by credit card or other payment and we ship a total training packet to your department. You will have two weeks to prepare and present the program to your students, after you return the lesson plan and tapes or DVDs. Any damages to the lesson plan or video tapes/DVDs will be the responsibility of the agency renting the program. All training material is copyrighted and no permission is given for copying any part of the lesson plan or video tapes. The student manual is provided on a CD and licensed to Extrication.Com/host agency for a single use per program student reprint. The cost per program license for reprinting is $150 per master copy. Inquire about the cost of the rental program to Ron Shaw rshaw@extrication.com.

Included the Rental Packet:

  1. Basic Skills Instructor Guide/Lesson Plan
  2. Unit Quizzes
  3. Final Exam
  4. Practical Evaluation Form
  5. AV training tapes or interactive DVDs

Options
Any vehicle extrication instructor that has completed a Extrication.Com Basic Skills Train the Trainer program within the last two years may submit the required program documentation and we will issue each passing student a certificate of completion. There will be an administrative fee for processing OEMS CEUs and issuing student certificates. Instructors may also purchase Extrication.Com patches, pins and custom class T-shirts for their program. For more information: info@extrication.com or Ron Shaw rshaw@extrication.com.

Extrication.Com Sanctioned Instructor Qualifications
To qualify as an Extrication.Com sanctioned trainer (lead or assisting) instructors must hold a valid instructor certification issued by recognized authority and attend our 40-hour extrication program as a student, then take the train the trainer for the basic skills program. To ensure program consistency from one instructor to another, instructors will be provided with a course check sheet, practical evolution models and student evaluations. Completed evaluations will be sealed and sent to Extrication.Com for review and then returned to the host agency. If in our opinion upon reviewing several program evaluations the instructor(s) are not providing the course content we will respond with suggestions for improving the presentation. Extrication.Com does retain the rights to suspend any instructor's privileges associated with an Extrication.Com sanctioned program.