Strengthen your emergency preparedness with UGA training
September is National Preparedness Month, a reminder that preparation is one of the best ways to protect ourselves and those around us. UGA Learning & Development offers a variety of courses to help employees build awareness, confidence, and emergency response skills. We encourage faculty and staff to explore the opportunities below.
To view upcoming course dates and register, please visit pep.uga.edu.
AHA Heartsaver® CPR AED Certification
This course is a video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult and child cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) use, infant CPR, and how to relieve choking in adults, children, and infants. This course teaches skills with the American Heart Association’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.
Basic Emergency Preparedness
Individual preparedness is the responsibility of all faculty, staff, and students on the UGA campus. Everyone should know how to prepare, respond to, and recover from an emergency or disaster both at home and in the workplace. This class will help prepare members of the UGA community to respond to various building level emergencies and national emergencies.
Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE)
Practical options for staying safe during active shooter or active threat events.
Continuity Starts Here: Building Resilience at UGA and at Home
Business continuity planning (BCP) is the practice of planning how your department will provide services or conduct departmental business during or after an emergency. This course will include examples of how business continuity plans can benefit your department and improve your readiness to a variety of possible disasters. Additionally, participants will learn how to access a University-based online planning system which will assist departments with developing their continuity plans.
Hands-Only CPR/AED Awareness
Emergencies requiring CPR can and do occur without warning. Many people who survive a cardiac emergency are helped by a bystander. The purpose of this class is to teach untrained bystanders how to perform compression-only (hands-only) CPR and use an AED. In this course, we will cover basic life support techniques used to perform compressions and basic life support techniques to restore and maintain circulation.
Note: This course is intended to provide the learner with knowledge-based training only. This course does NOT certify you in CPR. If you need accommodations for this training session, please email learnanddev@uga.edu at least one week before the session.
Stop the Bleed: Bleeding Control
As part of a national initiative, UGA’s Office of Emergency Preparedness (OEP) is coordinating campus efforts to help “Stop the Bleed.” “Stop the Bleed” is a nationwide campaign to empower individuals to act quickly and save lives. No matter how rapid the arrival of professional emergency responders, bystanders will always be first on the scene. A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within five minutes, therefore it is important to quickly stop the blood loss. OEP will teach attendees ways to control massive bleeding including using a tourniquet and packing a wound.
Travel Safety
UGA faculty, staff, and students travel domestically and internationally on a frequent basis. Safety, security, and emergency planning considerations should be a part of a well-planned trip. This class offers tips and techniques that may assist the first-time traveler or the well-seasoned traveler to avoid potential problems at the airport, on mass transit, at their hotel, and while touring at their destination.