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farmedic programFARMEDIC Farm Rescue is a training program for emergency responders, especially fire/rescue. Fire/rescue personnel, who would likely be first to respond to a difficult farm emergency, quickly learn that this type of call can be extremely challenging. Unlike typical home or auto accidents, these responders must deal with heavy farm equipment which might have pinned a person and needs to be re-righted, or an arm or leg caught in an auger or power take-off, or a rescue from a grain bin or manure pit. Responders are taught not only what steps to take in the rescue, but how to use the equipment that will be required to do the job.

Appropriate training in farm/rural rescue results in better patient outcomes and reduces the likelihood of rescuer injury or death. Some positive results of the Cornell Farmedic Training Program are: shorter notification, response, and extrication times; improved first aid, EMS, and hospital care; and fewer rescuer injuries.

Training

The Cornell Farmedic Farm Rescue Training Program in Michigan includes classroom work, farm tours, demonstrations, and hands-on extrications using mannequins in real life scenarios. The Farm Rescue course requires 16 hours of training over two days.

Courses are subject to cancellation for low enrollment and other reasons.

Farmedic TrainingLocations  

Upper Peninsula
Sat. & Sun. - August 18 & 19, 2007 7:30 AM to 6 PM
MSU U.P. Agricultural Experiment Station, Chatham, Michigan  

Price of Training

$350.00 (Inc. Text, Certificate of Completion, patch, & EMS CEUs)

Registration

Sample Letter: Sponsor of Registration & Authorization for Payment (PDF)

Pre-registration Required
Contact April Minarik, Lansing Community College
Phone: 517-483-9680
Email: minarika@lcc.edu

 

2007 Sample Agenda

Saturday

7:30 - 8:00
Registration

8:00 - 8:30
Introduction, Administration, and Farmedic Overview

8:30 - 10:30
Section 1: Agriculture Structures (Confined Spaces, Silos, Grain Bins, Grain Elevators, Barns, Manure Storage)

10:30  - 11:30
Section 2: Agricultural Machinery (Tractor, PTO, Auger, Combines)

11:30  - 12:00
Lunch 

12:00  - 12:30
Section 2: Safe Operations, Tools

12:30  - 1:30
Section 3: Farm Chemical Issues

1:30 - 2:00
Farm Animals - The Human Interaction

2:30 - 3:30
Concurrent Workshops:
A. Farm Equipment Orientation 
B. Structures Orientation 
C. Tool Orientation, Cutting, Stabilization

3:30 - 4:30
Concurrent Workshops A, B, and C

4:30 - 5:30
Concurrent Workshops A, B, and C

5:45 - 6:00
Review and Summary  FARMEDIC training

Sunday

8:00 - 8:15
Overview and Administrative

8:45 - 9:30
Concurrent Workshops D-G, Workshop D: EMS and Stokes, Workshop E: Tractor Roll-over, Workshop F: Corn Head Entanglement, Workshop G: Auger Entanglement

9:30  -  10:15
Concurrent Workshops D-G

10:15 - 11:00
Concurrent Workshops D-G

11:00 - 11:45
Concurrent Workshops D-G

11:45 - 12:45
Lunch

12:45 - 1:30
Concurrent Workshops H-K, Workshop H: PTO Entanglement, Workshop I: Tractor Roll-on (upright), Workshop J: Impalement, Workshop K: Chemical

1:30 - 2:15
Concurrent Workshops H-K

2:15 - 3:00
Concurrent Workshops H-K

3:00 - 3:45
Concurrent Workshops H-K

3:45  - 4:15
Clean Area, Re-Service Tools

4:15 - 4:30
Summary, Review, Questions/Answers

4:30 - 5:00
Written Examination and Course Evaluations

Other Courses

FARMEDIC - Train-the-Trainer Course

 

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