Professional Development: Health and Living

Defensive Driving
First Aid, CPR Continual Compressions, and AED
Incident Management
Mindfulness for Work and Life Effectiveness
Workplace and Campus Safety

Defensive Driving

Prerequisites: none
Length: 4 hours
Target Learners: Employees who drive Pima vehicles or drive personal vehicles on College business

The Arizona Department of Transportation provides defensive driving concepts for safe drivers. Review of driver regulations, liabilities for the College resulting from inattentive driving and conditions that can result in accidents. Road rage, construction zones, parking, transporting passengers, and personal vehicle use on College business are discussed.

Learning Objectives:
•	Review driver regulations
•	Describe conditions that increase probability of accidents
•	List increased liability following accident reports
•	Explain why driving records are important
•	Explain requirements in the event of an accident

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First Aid, CPR Continual Compressions, and AED

Prerequisites: none
Length: 4 hours
Target Learners: all employees

Participants will learn basic first aide to help victims while waiting for paramedics. They will also learn various techniques for immediately treating people recently injured or stricken so they would be more likely to recuperate fully after being assessed and treated professionally. Some topics covered will be CPR, fractures, poisoning, burns, shock and heat stroke.

Great strides have come about in our ability to respond to a cardiac arrest. A new method of CPR increases the number of compressions a responder should administer to a victim’s chest, and is highly effective in saving lives. The method, called continuous CPR, is recommended by Arizona’s own Sarver Heart Center at the University of Arizona. CPR combined with appropriate use of an automatic external defibrillator results in an increased success rate in saving a victim of cardiac arrest.

Learning Objectives:
•	Practice continuous-compression CPR
•	Identify the steps of being a life saver, beyond the CPR technique
•	Practice using an automated external defibrillator as part of the rescue effort
•	Explain when 911 is called
•	Demonstrate resuscitation of person who stopped breathing, whose heart has stopped
•	Demonstrate how to control bleeding from an open wound
•	Demonstrate how to treat a person who has been poisoned
•	Demonstrate how to treat a burn victim
•	Demonstrate how to treat heat stroke

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Incident Management

Prerequisites: Workplace and Campus Safety
Length: 6 hours
Target Learners: first response teams, supervisors

Participants will be introduced to the National Incident Management System (NIMS), its purpose, principles and key components. A disaster scenario threads throughout the workshop providing participants with common responsibilities associated with incident assignments. The College has an Emergency Response Plan and personnel at each site identified to manage the process. Participants will learn key components of the Emergency Response Plan and their role.

Learning Objectives:
•	Describe the key concepts, principles underlying NIMS
•	Describe advantages of common communication and information management
•	Explain Pima’s systems, key components, integrated communications and personnel accountability

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Mindfulness for Work and Life Effectiveness

Prerequisites: none
Length: 2 sessions – 3 hours each
Target Learners: all

Research has demonstrated that multitasking frequently results in stress, forgetfulness, shoddy work, mismanaged time, and lack of creativity. Mindfulness is a proven mental process and attitude for stress management and work/life effectiveness.

It is the practice of being fully attentive and present: for our work, co-workers, students, and friends and family. This workshop series of two sessions will teach participants how to focus and calm their minds and their somatic responses to multiple demands in work and life. Renewed focus will result in increased effectiveness and fulfillment. Part 1 will introduce, inform, and assess about mindfulness practices and the pitfalls of multitasking. Participants will be provided with short audio guides to practice between sessions. Part 2 will follow-up and further refine and practice strategies introduced in Part 1.

Learning Objectives:
•	Identify the proven health and productive disadvantages of multitasking
•	Identify and recognize personal practices of mindfulness through a mindfulness survey
•	Practice how to focus the mind and minimize distractions through 1) Cognitive techniques 2) breath awareness, 3) body scan for tension, and 4) yoga based stretching practices
•	Practice strategies to deal with stress producing and distracting thoughts as well as external interruptions
•	Create a specific plan of action and list personal, PCC, and community resources available for support of the plan

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Workplace and Campus Safety

Prerequisites: Safety and the Coworker
Safety and Classroom Management
Length: 4 hours
Target Learners: open

Participants in this workshop will overview the Occupational Health and Safety Act, procedure for enforcement, general duty, employer reporting responsibilities, and employee and employer rights. OSHA categories of Bloodborne Pathogens, Confined Space, Lockout-Tagout, and Hazardous Materials, will be covered from both workplace and classroom perspectives. Procedures of accident reporting, HAZMAT, safety committee, District and Campus emergency response will be reviewed. Symptoms and conditions of human behavior that can lead to violence in the workplace are discussed.

Learning Objectives:
•	Describe the difference between an accident and illness, according to OSHA
•	Describe how the OSHA requirement of continual training on workplace hazards, driver training, vehicle inspections, and seat-belt use are done at Pima County Community College
•	List behaviors that can be symptomatic of anger, resulting in workplace violence
•	List occupations and laboratories requiring safety instruction of faculty/students
•	Identify tools and materials used that are provided to protect students and employees from injury or illness

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