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D2000 to Provide Training to State Compliance Officers
D2000 Safety was recently chosen to provide fall protection training to about 30 state compliance officers. The two-day class will be held towards the end of June. The terms of the contract do not allow D2000 to disclose the identity of the agency.

"It's always fun to get a chance to spend time with the people who enforce safety standards," D2000 Lead Safety Instructor Jim McNeil explained. "They bring a different perspective and focus to the class."

The curriculum will consist mostly of D2000's Fall Protection for Competent Persons program but like most of our programs will be adapted to meet the needs of this specific audience. A variety of checklists and learning exercises will be developed for this specific class.

In the past D2000 has provided training to state compliance officers in the areas of confined spaces, fall protection, and excavation safety.

Sessions presented at Governor's Safety Conference
Last March D2000 CEO, Jim Johnson, presented sessions on confined space and fall protection at the Oregon Governor's Conference. The sessions were well attended with approximately 70 participants in each.

"I think it went well," Mr. Johnson said. "but it's tough to get much discussion going when you only have a few hours and you're trying to cover as much material as possible for a large group of people."

The sessions were titled "Fall Protection for General Industry" and "Confined Space Safety Overview" and were intended for audiences with some background in the subject matter.

Evaluations for both averaged 4.7 on a scale of 1 to 5.

D2000 has provided speakers for a variety of safety conferences. Our next scheduled speaking engagement is next fall at the Southern Oregon Safety Conference in Medford.

D2000 Instructors Support Rescue on Arizona’s Mount Graham
After falling off a rock face, a fourteen-year-old Boy Scout lay unconscious with internal injuries in a remote section of the Pinaleno Mountains in southeast Arizona.

“There’s a sliding rock up there with smooth, water-covered moss,” according to Lary Morton, D2000 Instructor and volunteer with the county search and rescue team. “The kids slide down it, and I think this time the patient just got sideways and started tumbling out of control. He got smacked up pretty bad.”

Other scouts removed the unconscious boy from the creek, but according to Morton, “when we got there he was in pretty bad shape.”

First on the scene was Mike Gojkovich, a part time D2000 instructor and AirEvac EMT. Mike stabilized the patient and administered an IV.

Lary and Greg Arbizo, another D2000 instructor, were airlifted to the top of the mountain where they were met by one of the Boy Scout leaders. “He told us it was a three mile hike down, but it’d feel like ten miles coming back up,” Lary said. “That was some rugged terrain.”

“We got him stabilized and placed him in a Stokes basket,” Greg Arbizo explained. “Then he had to move him quite a ways until we could find a spot where we were out from under the trees.”

At this point the helicopter was brought in to perform a short haul. This involved connecting the patient and an attendant to the hovering helicopter and lifting them to a landing zone. Here the patient could be transferred inside for evacuation to the hospital.

The youth suffered a variety of internal injuries but was expected to make a full recovery.

“We didn’t do this rescue by ourselves,” according to Frank Maldonado, another D2000 instructor who helped stabilize the patient. “There were a lot of other people involved including members of the Cochise and Graham County Search and Rescue Teams, Arizona Department of Public Safety, and other members of the Freeport McMoRan Technical Rescue Team.”

Version 3 Confined Space Leader's Guide Released

Following months of development, D2000 is proud to release Version 3 of the Confined Space Leader's Guide.

Trainers who are familiar with previous versions of this program will notice a number of improvements. For example in the Entrant/Attendant program, trainers can expect to find:

o More information on proper ventilation practices.

o An added section dealing with welding in confined spaces.

o Increased use of short videos.

o Added information on heat exposure.

o Short progress checks (quizzes) after each module to review key points.

"Other improvements," according to the program's developer, and D2000 CEO, Jim Johnson, "include a cleaner look and a more logical learning path." In others words, some of the topics have been re-ordered to better match the students' learning needs.

"Where it made sense we wanted to present these topics in the same order that students would encounter them in the field," according to Mr. Johnson. "This tends to improve retention of the key points."

Version 2 workbooks and CDs will still be avialable.

We will be contacting students who have completed D2000's Confined Space Train the Trainer within the last twelve months to offer them a low-cost upgrade.