Highway Safety for Emergency Service Personnel – VFIS

This 4 hour VFIS course is designed to present the necessary classroom instruction and evaluation of learning for emergency service personnel who may be involved in highway incidents that require them to work in close proximity in the knowledge and understanding of safety principles and practices at vehicle-related highway incidents and the consequences that may result for unsafe acts while driving.

Emergency Service Organizations (ESO’s) respond to a wide variety of incidents involving operations on or near a highway.  These operations pose special risks to personnel performing fire, rescue and EMS functions.  Every year, a significant number of emergency service personnel are killed or injured while working to save others along our roadways.  There may be a wide variety of reasons for these losses, but the point still remains: they should never happen!  In many instances, an ESO responds to a “primary incident” along a highway, only to become the victim of a “secondary incident” – the nightmare in which a firefighter, EMS provider or police officer is suddenly struck and killed by traffic.While no one individual or group can control drivers of other vehicles, there are some fundamental steps that may be taken by your organization to improve the level of safety at these types of incidents.

Three Rivers CPR is Southwestern PA’s leading presenter of this important safety focused class.  Seasoned or new personnel will walk away with increased knowledge and attitude for safety.

Below are just a few of the department that have had representatives attend past sessions of this course: